Each year the Association for Women in Mathematics holds an essay contest -- inviting middle school and high school and college students each to interview a math woman and to write about it. The names of 2025 contest winners -- and links to their essays -- are available here at this link.
One of my delights as I browsed through the contest results was to find male as well as female essay winners. Here is a link to "Bridging Worlds through Mathematics" -- an essay by Alan Zhang of Francis Richmond Middle School, telling of an interview with Alena Erchenko (Dartmouth College), that won first place in the Grades 6-8 contest group. And this link leads to "Where Dreams Can Take You" -- an essay by Peter Holman of Frances C, Richmond Middle School telling of an interview with Kim Luke (Simbex).
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