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The Interim CEO of Black Girls CODE on the Importance of Self-Belief

For the month of February, the Nautilus Marketing Team will feature interviews with organizations and institutions working to increase opportunities for young Black people to imagine and succeed in STEM career paths—and we’ll donate 10 percent of all new member subscriptions toward their initiatives. Black representation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields totaled […] The post The Interim CEO of Black Girls CODE on the Importance of Self-Belief appeared first on Nautilus.

For the month of February, the Nautilus Marketing Team will feature interviews with organizations and institutions working to increase opportunities for young Black people to imagine and succeed in STEM career paths—and we’ll donate 10 percent of all new member subscriptions toward their initiatives.

Black representation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields totaled only 9 percent in 2021, as reported by The National Science Foundation.


“When Black girls win, everyone wins,” says the Interim CEO of Black Girls CODE.

Sofia Mohammed was not a math person. From the age of 9 when her family emigrated to the United States from Ethiopia—where she was born and partially raised—until her early years at public high school in Harlem, New York, she would swear by her mathematical deficiency. 

She held this belief until her do this.” 

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