Episode 8: Brittany Rhodes

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Today, our guest is Brittany Rhodes. Brittany is a math tutor, former GED Math Instructor, and Founder and General MATHager of Black Girl MATHgic (BGM). BGM is a movement dedicated to increasing math confidence, awareness, enthusiasm, identity, fluency, and persistence in children, with a focus on girls and black children, who are disproportionately impacted by math anxiety. BGM’s flagship product is the Black Girl MATHgic Box, which is the first and only monthly subscription box designed to increase math confidence and decrease math anxiety in girls on a 3rd-8th grade math level. Black Girl MATHgic has been featured in Black Enterprise, BEYONCE.com, Forbes, National Math & Science Initiative, and more, and named STEM Toy Expert’s 2020 Best STEM Subscription Box for Kids: Best for GRL PWR and one of Hello Subscription’s 2020 Best Subscription Boxes for Kids. Brittany received her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Spelman College and her Master of Business Administration in Marketing, Communication, and Organizational Behavior from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Brittany is a proud native of Detroit, where she lives with her husband, Oscar.

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Black Girl Mathgic- https://blackgirlmathgic.com/

We Use Math: http://weusemath.org/