Emille Davie Lawrence is Senior Director for the Black Achievement Success & Engagement initiative and Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of San Francisco. She earned her B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College and her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Georgia. She has also been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara and an Assistant Professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her research focuses on topological properties of spatial graphs. She has been recognized for her work in the mathematics community as the 2021 Association for Women in Mathematics Service Award winner and was also elected to the Board of Directors of the Mathematical Association of America as Officer-at-Large. She is also a recipient of the 2021 Karen EDGE Fellowship for mid-career mathematicians. 

Emille enjoys speaking about mathematics to people of all ages and has been a lecturer at the National Math Festival, as well as many other outlets. She believes strongly that mathematics should be accessible to everyone, and her commitment to access is evidenced through her work with various national and local organizations, such as the EDGE Program, the National Girls Collaborative Project, the National Association for Mathematicians, and the Association for Women in Mathematics. She is also co-editor of the book Living Proof: Stories of Struggle and Resilience on the Path to Becoming a Mathematician which won the Mathematical Association of America Euler Book Prize in 2022. Her non-professional life is filled with music and other performing arts and spending meaningful time with her husband and two children.