Babette M. Benken

Babette M. Benken is a professor of mathematics education and an advisor at California State University at Long Beach. She is passionate about creating pathways that support access and success in STEM, as well as providing models for teacher education that integrate inclusive pedagogy and context-rich curricula. Her current projects include serving as co-principal investigator for the Long Beach-Compton Data Science Learning Community, and principal investigator for the Southern California Consortium for Data Science. She earned a bachelor's from Occidental College and a master's from Tufts University, as well a PhD in mathematics education from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.