[7] After two stints as a postdoctoral researcher,[2] she joined the Morehouse College faculty in 2007, and became associate director at ICERM in 2013.
The program was designed to focus on training and creating jobs in mathematical sciences for women, especially those from underrepresented groups.
The EDGE program helped increase the number of women, especially in minority groups, to take over in academia, industry and government roles.
The EDGE program first began offering summer sessions to equip women in research providing annual conferences, mini-research, and collaborations with prestigious universities.
Numerous women have been granted sabbatical support and one woman was even able to use her mini-sabbatical to continue and build her research with a senior mathematician at Purdue University.