Omo Moses
MathTalk
Cambridge, MA USA
"Your success is always tied to sacrifices that other people have made, whether you know those people or not. We always need to try to find ways to honor those sacrifices."
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Omo's work combines: Numbers, Entrepreneurship, and Teaching / Mentoring
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Advice for getting started
It's important to take classes and seek out experiences that support entrepreneurship.
Here's the path I took:
High School
Life & Career Milestones
My path in life took a while to figure out
1.
I was born in Tanzania to parents who were deeply involved in the civil rights movement—this shaped my perspective on education and equity.
2.
In seventh grade, I started teaching math to my peers and realized early on the power of education to uplift communities.
3.
After playing college basketball on a scholarship, I transitioned into teaching, joining my father’s work in Mississippi.
4.
Co-founding the Young People’s Project, I helped train high school and college students to teach math literacy to their peers.
5.
I spent 20 years building the Young People’s Project, creating a network of young educators dedicated to math empowerment.
6.
Inspired by my kids, I founded MathTalk to integrate math learning into everyday spaces and make it accessible and fun.
7.
Through MathTalk, we developed interactive tools, like the Math Everywhere app, to engage families and communities in math.
8.
My journey continues as I work to change the culture around math, ensuring that all kids see themselves as “math people.”
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Society in general:
Math and advanced education are only for certain groups of students.
How I responded:
Of the kids I grew up with, I was the only one taking honors math. The rest were put on vocational tracks or tracks to push them out of school. Society is a caste system that the education system perpetuates. Society already knows what it expects you to become and that's the track you're set on. A certain group of kids get access to a certain type of education to do a certain type of work. My father and I saw math as a way to break out of that system and that's what MathTalk tries to do now.