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Pamela Estephania Harris is a Mexican American mathematician. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2012. Her dissertation was on Combinatorial problems related to Kostant's weight multiplicity formula and was under the advisement of Jeb Faulkner Willenbring. Harris is now an assistant professor of mathematics at Williams College. She is also an editor of the e-mentoring blog of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

Personal Life
Harris first emigrated with her family from Mexico to the United State when she was 8 years old. They eventually settled in Wisconsin where Harris attended and graduated from Marquette University with a BS in Mathematics. She was the first in her family to graduate from high school.

Honors
Harris was a Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) fellow in 2012. In 2019, she won the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member award for her mentorship towards undergraduate research and for her "fierce advocate for a diverse and inclusive mathematics community". She was an invited plenary speaker for Mathematical Association of American at the 2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings.