The award-winning podcast Beauty in the Grit was started by Ariel "Air" Britt. She is a gifted public speaker who has a strong sense of duty to others. Her career has largely been devoted to creating preventative, intervention, and rehabilitation support services for children and young people. She also worked at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy as a political appointee for the Biden-Harris administration. The University of Michigan is where Air obtained her Bachelor's in Psychology and her Master's in Social Work.