Tiffany James is ensuring financial literacy will be accessible to Black women.

As AfroTech previously told you, the 27-year-old is the founder of Modern Blk Girl (MBG). The digital platform was created to ensure minority women have a safe space to be themselves and learn about the stock market. For James creating MBG stemmed from her Caribbean upbringing in which financial literacy was nonexistent. It was not until the age of 21 that James became more conscious of how stocks could transform her ways of living. In fact, after investing in various stocks including Tesla she turned $10,000 into two million within three years.

“If I had the knowledge I have now about financial literacy when I was younger, a lot of things could have been different for me. One experience that I went through is not having money for simple things like high school prom, senior trip, and a cap and gown but if I knew I could invest in Apple my junior or senior year I would have been fine,” James told AfroTech. “My experience made me want to put more information out there to make it easier for younger kids to understand financial literacy.”

Now James is helping other women to create their own success stories through MBG. The platform first launched on Clubhouse in 2020 with 500 users but that number has since climbed to over 200,000. Here women of color become educated on steps to create generational wealth by learning the fundamentals of the stock market. MBG has already helped women of color over 3.5 million dollars in the stock market, according to information provided to AfroTech.

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