A Philadelphia native and educator is on a mission to cultivate young leaders in STEM who look like her.
"One of my board members said this organization is a letter to my younger self," said Atiyah Harmon. "I was a math student, pretty strong, but I didn’t see a trajectory for what you would do if you loved math outside of being an accountant. So, I kind of stayed away. In 12th grade I had the option to opt out of Honors Math. Never give a 17-year-old that option.
"It was a gap in the space for girls to feel welcome and whole in themselves. I don’t think we do anything revolutionary, except give them a safe space to explore and be themselves and comfortable to know that they are math people too," said Harmon. At the start of each class, the students stand in a circle and read the Black Girls Love Math creed which focuses on self-confidence, self-love and sisterhood.
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