JAK of All Trades Tutoring
​Math, Biology, Chemistry, Writing, and more!
Welcome to JAK of All Trades Tutoring! In case we haven’t met before, allow me to introduce myself. I am Jakini Auset Kauba, a trained tutor with ten years of experience. Of the 12 different cities I’ve lived, the place I feel most at home is the classroom. With an interest in all things education, I understand how difficult courses can be; especially when we stress over a GPA knowing that we are “never going to see this again”. The year 2020 reminded us that life is too short to stress over the little things. Allow me to relieve that stress so that you can focus your energy on what really matters!
Research Interests and Career Goals
Publications
2023: Christina Hoffman, Jakini Kauba, Julie Reidy, and Thomas Weighill. "Proportionality in multi-winner RCV elections: A simulation study with ballot truncation” (2023). Submitted to Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation.
2023: Ron Buckmire, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Joe E. Hidden, Jr., Jakini Kauba, Drew Lewis, Omayra Ortega, Jose’ L. Pabon, Rachel Roca, Andres R. Vindas-Melendez, and Sam Zhang. “Quantifying Inequities and Documenting Elitism in PhD-granting Mathematical Sciences Departments in the United States” (2023). Submitted to The American Mathematical Monthly.
2023: Jakini Kauba and Thomas Weighill. “Topological analysis of U.S. city demographics” (2023). Submitted to La Matematica.
Future Non-Profit:
My greatest career aspiration is to open a non profit ​organization that not only provides shelter for the homeless, but also offers a second chance at life. More than food and shelter, my facility will offer free education, health care, day care services, opportunities for professional development, and so much more! My tutoring services are only the beginning of what's to come.
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Social Justice in Mathematics:
In late 2020, I was informed of a research study conducted at Duke University that considered the possibility of designing voting district lines that more accurately reflected regional populations in an effort to reduce, if not eliminate the impact of gerrymandering. The mere idea that math is being used to create a more just world gives me hope for my future research and the impact I hope to have in our world. I am more than certain that the research I conduct will influence my work at my future Non-Profit organization and vice versa. While I am more than excited to start this journey, my first step is completing my doctorate degree of which I aim to further enhance my understanding of statistics and other stochastic related fields while also exploring various research opportunities related to the many different social justice concerns in America.
Research Presentations
2023: Presented on "A Topological Analysis of US City Demographics" at Carolina Math Seminar in Columbia, South Carolina.
2023: Presented on "Why Grad School?" at Carolina Math Seminar in Columbia, South Carolina.
2023: Presented on "Building Your Village" at National Association of Mathematicians (NAM) MATHFest in Atlanta, Georgia.
2023: Presented on "A Topological Analysis of US City Demographics" at National Association of Mathematicians (NAM) MATHFest in Atlanta, Georgia.
2023: Presented on "A Topological Analysis of US City Demographics" at Math Association of America (MAA) MathFest in Tampa, Florida. (Invited Talk)
2022: Presented on "Structural Racism and Healthcare" at The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) by way of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
2022: Presented on "An Analysis of Racial Segregation Using Topological Data Analysis" at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro in Greensboro, NC. (Invited Talk)
2019: Presented on "The Origins of ANOVA" at the University of North Carolina - Greensboro in Greensboro, NC.
2018: Presented on “The Resiliency of the ‘Strong Black Woman’ " in the Applied Research Course at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in Greensboro, NC.
2016: Presented on "The Association of Discirmination and Lifetime Alcohol Abuse among African American Men” by way of the Diversity Summer Internship Program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD and at the
Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in Orlando, Florida.
2015: Presented on “Nature’s Pace Maker: Studying the Relationship between Heartrate and Lifespan Across the Vertebrate Family Tree” at NC State's Mid-Atlantic PREP/IMSD Research Symposium in Raleigh, NC, the
Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in Seattle, WA, and the Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium in Raleigh, NC.
2012: Presented on “The Effect of the Chemical Environment on the Function of a Nanobiosensor" by way of the North Carolina ProjectSEED program at the Annual Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research Symposium in Raleigh, NC.