Math. Did reading that word wake up your brain with excitement or make you mentally groan? Either way, keep reading, please! Hala Ghousseini (she/her), a math professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, works to help everyone find meaning and confidence in math. Hopefully, after listening to our conversation, her passion for the subject makes it a bit clearer how math can help us make sense of the world in ways you didn't expect. (And this is coming me who, as a kid, vowed to hate math for her entire life)!