Detroit native Brittany Rhodes is an educator who created a subscription box and programming service called Black Girl MATHgic to help Black girls build greater confidence with math, reduce their anxiety in the classroom, and progress in STEM fields.

The groundwork for her mission was laid early.

Her mother was also an educator, and Brittany went on to attend Spelman College, where she acquired a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics before later completing her MBA at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.

There, she got involved in the community by tutoring younger students in mathematics, realizing that a lack of foundational skills would lead to anxiety and have a negative effect on their academics.

Black Girl MATHgic was born in 2019, right in the thick of the Covid-19 pandemic, a time when remote learning highlighted educational inequities — a monthly subscription box service designed for girls from 3rd to 8th grade.

A first-of-its-kind service in Detroit, each box comes jam-packed with math activity booklets, hands-on tools, uplifting affirmations, and even materials showcasing different Black women thriving in various math-related career paths.

Black Girl MATHgic combines top-of-the-line math education with the encouragement needed to help young girls build a strong sense of personal identity, directly targeting the psychological barriers that so many of them face in mathematics.

During the pandemic, Rhodes’s subscription service took off practically overnight, thanks to the fact that many families were seeking additional support in home-based learning at that time.

Since then, she has rebranded her business to cater to school districts and youth organizations, especially through her related brand “Math = Me,” which provides learning materials for educators and afterschool use.

Brittany Rhodes’s Black Girl MATHgic subscription service has been featured in major publications such as Black Enterprise and Forbes.

Widely heralded for its culturally responsive approach, it is also regularly discussed in youth-upliftment focused entrepreneurship and STEM circles.

Rhodes is a firm believer in the fact that math confidence and access to resources are foundational for Black children who wish to engage in future-forward career paths such as data science and the booming AI field.

She accomplishes this by fusing her razor-sharp business acumen, mathematics training, and tutoring insight to build a system where young Black girls can see themselves not just as learners, but as early analytical thinkers.

For her work, she has been honored with various grants and pitch competition awards.

In short, Brittany Rhodes isn’t just a woman who created an educational subscription service—she’s a builder of dignity, cultural pride, identity, agency, and dreams made manifest.

Victoria Jackson (Editor In Chief)

Victoria Jackson is a lifelong student and sharp-eyed documentarian of all things Detroit, from its rich musical roots and cultural icons to its shifting neighborhoods, storied architecture, and underground legends. With her finger firmly on the pulse of both the city’s vibrant past and its rapidly unfolding future, she brings a deeply personal, historically grounded lens to every piece she writes.

Published on: October 3, 2025