Silva Chang is the founder and director of the Colorado Math Circle. Born and raised in New York City, she participated in ARML as a member of the NYC math team during her high school years and attended the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Math (HCSSiM). At Oberlin College Silva double majored in mathematics and East Asian Studies, then received an M.S./M.Phil in computer science from Yale University. She has worked as a software developer, a website developer, and a manager in a tea shop.

Silva has led the Fairview HS Math Club and coached Summit MS MATHCOUNTS Team. She also coached the Colorado MATHCOUNTS Team for five consecutive years. Silva is a member of the Colorado Mathematics Awards Steering Committee, and has taught at the MathPath summer camp for advanced middle school students for the past three years. She has given talks about the Colorado Math Circle at the Joint Mathematics Meetings and the Rocky Mountain MAA Section Meeting.

When not running the math circle, Silva teaches in the Department of Applied Mathematics at CU-Boulder. In 2010 she was nominated for the John and Mercedes Peebles Innovation in Education Award.

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