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Bailey Heath earned his bachelor of arts with a double major in mathematics and psychology from Gettysburg College in 2019. Through opportunities to tutor for math courses and to research additive combinatorics under Béla Bajnok, he discovered a passion for mathematics teaching and research that led him to pursue graduate school in mathematics. In 2024, Bailey completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of South Carolina under the supervision of Alexander Duncan, where his dissertation focused on algebra and algebraic geometry and was titled “Representation Dimensions of Algebraic Tori and Symmetric Ranks of G-Lattices.” As a graduate student, he earned his department’s Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award and enjoyed many opportunities to grow as a teacher, such as serving as a peer mentor to less-experienced graduate student instructors and frequently engaging with the university’s Center for Teaching Excellence. After earning his Ph.D., Bailey was a lecturer in the mathematics department at Yale University from 2024-2026, where he taught calculus courses and co-taught a graduate student pedagogy seminar to prepare first-time calculus instructors. In addition, he gained experience coordinating multi-section courses, mentoring graduate student and postdoctoral instructors, and hiring and training departmental tutors.