Vanessa Vakharia is the founder and director of The Math Guru, a boutique math and science tutoring studio in Toronto. She is also the author of Math Hacks, a book that makes math fun, stress-free and relatable for young kids and parents. She appears regularly on national television and news outlets as an expert in math education, and speaks globally at conferences about re-inventing media representations of women in STEM. Her goal is to change math culture so that STEM is finally cool and accessible. Despite her current career, she failed Grade 11 math twice, which she now views as the best thing that ever happened to her.