Fawn Nguyen
Director
Fawn Nguyen is the Director of STEM Initiatives at Amplify. She spent 30 years teaching middle school math and three years as a math coach for a K–8 school district. In 2014, she was named Ventura County Teacher of the Year 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 has led workshops and spoken at math conferences across the U.S. and internationally, including in New Zealand. Since 2011, she has served on the Mathematics Project Leadership Team at UC Santa Barbara.
She writes a teaching blog on Substack and created visualpatterns.org. 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 for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).