Karen Saxe is senior vice president, government relations, for the American Mathematical Society (AMS). She represents the society’s 30,000 members, ensuring that legislation and policies support mathematics research, mathematicians, and students. Saxe is Professor Emerita at Macalester College. At Macalester, she served as chair of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, and she was the recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Teaching Award of the North Central Section of the Mathematics Association of America (MAA). She has served as vice president of the MAA and as an American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science & Technology Policy Fellow. Saxe’s primary mathematical interests are spectral theory of linear operators on Banach spaces, electoral system design and voting theory, the history of mathematics, and mathematics education. She is the author of a textbook on functional analysis, and her writings on redistricting include articles in The Conversation and PBS News Weekend.