Blog­ger and pod­cast­er Gabrielle Bir­chak strives to encour­age oth­ers in math and sci­ence while shar­ing the depth and breadth of her knowl­edge with the world. 

Bir­chak has devel­oped a brand with her blog and pod­cast Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry!, where she shares her research on the broad scope of the his­to­ry of math and sci­ence from ear­ly Mesopotamia in 4000 BCE to the present day. With this plat­form, she incor­po­rates her love for math, sci­ence, and his­to­ry while pre­sent­ing unknown his­tor­i­cal fig­ures and pro­mot­ing mar­gin­al­ized indi­vid­u­als in STEM. Though her pri­ma­ry audi­ence is in the Unit­ed States, she has gar­nered lis­ten­ers from Asia, Cana­da, Israel, and Aus­tralia, to name a few. Through her blog, she com­bines her jour­nal­is­tic skills with her math back­ground to cre­ate qual­i­ty, in-depth, fac­tu­al pod­casts and blogs that are easy to under­stand, engag­ing, and enjoy­able. With pod­cast Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry! Bir­chak suc­cess­ful­ly brings var­i­ous dis­ci­plines to math and sci­ence, prov­ing that inter­dis­ci­pli­nary edu­ca­tion can make even some of the most chal­leng­ing top­ics understandable.

Bir­chak is the author of the book Hypa­tia: The Sum of Her Life, which pro­vides a com­plete view of Hypa­ti­a’s life in Ancient Rome as a math­e­mati­cian, astronomer, philoso­pher, and polit­i­cal advi­sor. Her name appears in bylines for D.C. Metro mag­a­zine and NASA/JPL’s news­pa­per Uni­verse. As an edi­tor, her work includes K. Gainor’s sci­ence-fic­tion book and pod­cast Pal­adin Corps: Book 1.  As a speak­er, she is pas­sion­ate about shar­ing the impor­tance of inter­dis­ci­pli­nary think­ing and empow­er­ing every­one inter­est­ed in sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy, engi­neer­ing, and math­e­mat­ics.

Through­out her life, she has per­formed as a stage actor, jazz singer, and come­di­an. In 2008, while work­ing as a come­di­an on the East Coast cir­cuit and film­ing her show, Gab’s Blabs, she won the U.S. and Cana­da-wide Project Breakout’s Polit­i­cal Pun­dit Com­pe­ti­tion, earn­ing her the Field Reporter posi­tion for the 2008 Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Con­ven­tion.

Bir­chak holds a Bach­e­lor of Jour­nal­ism degree from Cal­i­for­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty, North­ridge, and a Bach­e­lor of Math­e­mat­ics from South­ern New Hamp­shire Uni­ver­si­ty. Her love of aca­d­e­mics earned her mem­ber­ships with sev­er­al Greek soci­eties, includ­ing Sig­ma Alpha Pi, Alpha Sig­ma Lamb­da, Kap­pa Tau Alpha, and Phi Theta Kappa.

Always engaged with her tribe, Gabrielle is involved with sev­er­al orga­ni­za­tions, includ­ing the His­to­ry of Sci­ence Soci­ety, the Asso­ci­a­tion for Women in Math, and the Asso­ci­a­tion for Ancient Historians.

Gabrielle resides in Los Ange­les, where she spends count­less hours in many of the city’s 93 muse­ums. You can find her at GabrielleBirchak.com, as well as on X (@GabBirchak), Threads (@GabrielleBirchak), Insta­gram (@GabrielleBirchak), Face­book (@MathScienceHistory), and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/MathScienceHistory).

CONTACT

For speak­ing engage­ments, please email Hello@MathScienceHistory.com

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