Massa Saba Brown, M.Ed
Founder & CEO, MyMenta
The story behind the mission
A journey to fertility, a baptism that fell a year to the date of my daughter's birthday, severe preeclampsia, and intensive weeks in the NICU. It ends the way we prayed it would: our babygirl, coming home.
The heart behind MyMenta
Massa Saba Brown, M.Ed. didn't set out to build a mental health organization built on heart health. She built it because her own heart — and her daughter's — taught her something the healthcare system hadn't caught up to yet.
A heart taught her what the data couldn't
In 2020, MyMenta looked different than it does today — a more traditional youth-serving venture, still finding its shape. That shape changed through Massa's own experience as a mother. Her daughter, Selah, was born prematurely and was later diagnosed with Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT), a heart condition that arrived alongside a pregnancy marked by its own serious complications.
Living through that season — the uncertainty, the fear, the physical toll it took on her own body and heart — confirmed something Massa had felt but hadn't yet built a framework around: that emotional and physiological health are not separate systems. They move together. What the heart carries, the mind carries too.
That conviction became MyMenta's foundation — the belief that early heart health insight can help us understand, and reach, a young person's mental well-being sooner than we ever have before.
From speech delay to speaker
Long before "Founder" was in her title, Massa was a little girl with a speech delay — someone who took longer to find her words. It's not lost on her that the woman who once struggled to be understood now spends her life helping young people find the words for what they're carrying, and helping the adults around them learn how to listen.
Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Massa is a first-generation Black African leader whose work is rooted in both lived experience and professional practice. She holds a Master of Education in Counseling & Development from Virginia Commonwealth University, a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Media Studies, and an Associate degree in Speech Communication from Morgan State University — a fitting credential, given where her story began.
Her career has spanned direct clinical care, program leadership, and systems-level youth development, always centered on one question: how do we get holistic, culturally responsive mental health support to the young people who need it most, before crisis forces the issue?
Practice, before theory
Everything MyMenta believes about prevention was tested in the field first — years before it became a framework.
Cottage Manager, United Methodist Family Services
Supported trauma-impacted youth and supervised a team of 20 counselors serving roughly 30 high-need youth. Named Employee of the Year and promoted to senior youth counselor within a year, using Dr. Stuart Ablon's Collaborative Problem Solving model.
The Hope Center, Prince George's County
A year of pro bono counseling and consulting where MyMenta's earliest programming began — focus group therapy with 25 youth, and structured group counseling for 30 youth at Charles H. Hickey, Jr. School.
Founder, MyMenta
What began as a traditional youth-serving venture became a prevention-first model centered on the heart–mind connection — reshaped by a personal experience that made the science undeniable.
As a Mentalpreneur, she brings the whole picture.
Clinical knowledge, lived experience, and a systems-thinking approach — built into one framework so young people get the support they need before crisis, not after.
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