Fawn Nguyen is the Director of STEM Initiatives at
Amplify. She spent three years as a math coach for a K-8 school district and taught middle school math for 30 years. She was named Ventura County Teacher of the Year in 2014 and received the Math Teacher Hero Award from Raytheon in 2009. In 2005, she was honored with the Sarah D. Barder Fellowship from the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.
Fawn blogs about teaching and lesson ideas at
fawnnguyen.com and runs three additional websites for educators:
visualpatterns.org,
between2numbers.com, and
chewablemath.com.
She has given talks and led workshops at math conferences in the U.S. and abroad, including New Zealand. Since 2011, she has been part of the UC Santa Barbara Mathematics Project Leadership Team.
In 2012, she co-founded the Math Teachers’ Circle in Thousand Oaks, California. From 2015 to 2018, she served on the Professional Development Services Committee (PDSC) for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
