Kristin Umland

Kristin Umland is an American mathematician and mathematics educator. She was on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico for nearly two decades before leaving to help build the nonprofit organization Illustrative Mathematics (IM).

Education and career Umland did undergraduate studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1996, she was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics by the University of Illinois Chicago. Her dissertation, entitled "The Mod-2 Cohomology of the Lyons Group", was supervised by Stephen D. Smith.

In 1996, Umland began teaching in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of New Mexico (UNM). She joined the tenure stream faculty in 2002 and was later promoted to associate professor. At New Mexico, Umland taught a wide variety of mathematics courses, ranging from intermediate algebra to measure theory, as well as courses in mathematics education. She supervised 3 doctoral dissertations and several master's dissertations.