Who am I?

Here is a bio that I wrote for a  NSF fellowship that I recently got. It is a "capacity building fellowship for early career professionals"!

Vishakha Parvate knew at the age of six that she wanted to teach Math - not because she was good at it (though in a conventional sense she was and has been -  "good at Math") - but because she couldn't fathom why some of her most intelligent friends claimed they were no good at it. This basic conundrum of a perceived lack of Math expertise among smart, hard working folks is at the heart of her motivation for working in the area of Technology in Math classrooms. Disillusionment with the meaninglessness of all the symbol manipulation that consisted the bulk of her undergraduate major in mathematics, was mitigated by the exciting mathematical patterns that programming brought during graduate studies in Computer Science.  This dual educational background and a lifelong passion for changing the teaching and learning of Mathematics to be meaningful and exciting means that creating and researching dynamic mathematics technologies was the natural career path for her.  

Is this who I am - I guess so. Too long winded sez my better half but I shrug my shoulders and say this is who I am and can't be condensed any more. There was a bit at the end that I took out coz i wrote it only for the NSF folks about my current project ad so on.