I'm excited to have this opportunity to introduce myself and my family to you!

I have lived in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire for almost my entire life. My husband and I both graduated from Keene State College in 2004 (photo is from Commencement, right outside of Rhodes Hall). My degree is in Mathematics and I minored in Political Science.

Professor Lisha and her fiance Will standing outside on a sunny day with black graduation robes.

I spent some time teaching 7th grade math and world history before spending several years as a full-time homeschooling mom to our three daughters, while privately tutoring high school students.

From 2016-2024, I worked at Keene State in several roles, including as an Academic Advisor and math faculty. I earned my Master's Degree in Education, researching and learning more about the link between childhood trauma and math anxiety. I was offered admission in the doctoral programs for Math Education at Columbia University and UNH and am in my third year of my PhD program in Mathematics Education at UNH. I am excited to be here at Landmark for the next stage in my educational journey.

Will and I have been married for 20 years and have four children (three surviving daughters who are now 18, 17, and 14). We still homeschool full-time and are involved in an informal local homeschool community. I love to read (mostly primary source documents like letters, speeches, and essays from past presidents and other leaders), cross-stitch, and cook international foods. We were a host family for many international students prior to Covid, and now have over 20 host sons & daughters around the world, whom we are hoping and planning to one day visit.

Other random things that I like: ridiculous (and accurate) math memes and jokes, 90's pop, the web comic Strange Planet, cooking for other people, coffee, the fall (but not pumpkin spice everything), and learning about...anything and everything.

The Hunter family in coordinating black, blue, and gray outfits with a mountain in the background.

My greatest desire as an instructor is to help you to think of yourself as a mathematician and problem-solver, no matter where you're starting in terms of skill - and to do what I can by way of providing support, resources, and encouragement to help you reach your goal and even reach beyond those goals with confidence in your own ability and strengths. You may not believe this yet, but you bring valuable life experience and a unique mathematical brain to this course. Over the course of the next fifteen weeks, it is highly likely that you will end up teaching me something new - about how you see mathematics or about your perspectives!

I am looking forward to meeting you in person and to getting to know you more and working alongside you this semester as you grow as

a mathematician,

a problem-solver, and

a lifelong learner!

Mathematically, as ever

Lisha Hunter, M.Ed.