Math educator, mama, and founder of The Number Nook.

After graduating from Stanford, Sadie started her career as a math educator, initially as a high school math teacher and then as the founder of a math tutoring business in San Francisco. In the midst of selling her business, she learned to program computers and found herself in the tech world, first in analytics and then in software engineering, ultimately managing engineering teams at Pinterest. While she enjoyed the technical challenges of her job, she yearned for the human connection and sense of impact she had experienced as an educator.

After taking some time off, Sadie began to volunteer in her daughter's classroom and invest time thinking about creative ways to teach her number sense. During that time, she often found herself reflecting upon her time working with older students: a child who had strong foundations but was stumbling with a new concept was always easy to get back on track, but for a student who still struggled with basic integer operations, the path was much longer and more difficult. Moreover, that student's confidence in herself had long been lost, and this was perhaps the hardest battle to fight.

Through this journey, Sadie realized that she had a unique opportunity to nurture a fondness for and aptitude in math amongst the kids in the community, starting early. With this goal in mind, she launched a series of math enrichment classes. As she helped more families, she expanded her service offerings to include assessments, at-home education plans, and parent advisory.