Today we feature a vibrant conversation with Moon Duchin, Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University where she oversees the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group which focuses their research on data science interventions for civil rights. Moon earned her undergraduate degrees in mathematics and women’s students from Harvard University and her masters and PhD in mathematics from the University of Chicago. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 and she has been a Fellow of the American Matheamtical Society since 2017. In this conversation, you will hear about Moon’s strategy to build the kind of community you want to be in, about how outreach energizes her, about her skill at working just about anywhere, and about how many of her favorite places in the world serve coffee.