Then there’s Black Girls Love Math, the nonprofit that hosted the pilot program that Oliver participated in this summer. “We like to think about the ‘M’ specifically in STEM,” says Black Girls Love Math founder Atiyah Harmon, a longtime Philadelphia schoolteacher. Atiyah Harmon (left), founder of Black Girls Love Math. Started in the summer of 2020 — just after the George Floyd protests began — Black Girls Love Math aims to head off this attitude shift. So for the past couple of years, Beatrice has kept her daughter in the Black Girls Love Math enrichment program near their home in Brooklyn.