Andrew Schultz is a professor of mathematics at Wellesley College. He received his Ph.D. in math at Stanford University in 2007, after which he spent three years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a post-doc. He joined the faculty at Wellesley in 2010 and has been there ever since. In addition to teaching across the mathematics curriculum, he also does research at the intersection of algebra and combinatorics. He is also the associate director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy, a group dedicated to education, research, and outreach in mathematics and politics with the goal of empowering all citizens to become informed participants and impartial agents of change in the democratic process.