Dr Katie Steckles is a mainstay of the mathematics communications scene and a regular in our videos. Here she discusses her life at school, university, and now as a freelance maths communicator. Plus life as a pirate. Katie Steckles website - http://www.katiesteckles.co.uk/ Follow Katie on Twitter - https://twitter.com/stecks Talking Maths in Public - http://www.talkingmathsinpublic.uk/ Check out Katie's videos on Numberphile - http://bit.ly/Steckles_Playlist Support this podcast - and our videos - via Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/numberphile With thanks to MSRI - https://www.msri.org/ Apologies for the change in audio quality part way through - we had technical issues!