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Katia "HealthGURU'' Powell-Laurent is an award-winning nutrition and wellness expert, a practicing wholistic health practitioner, and the Founder & CEO of Black Girls Nutrition (BGN) & and the sister company HUED Mamas Co. Our companies recognize that the generational effects of unaddressed PTSD and the threat of "Real or Perceived Racism" have had a negative impact on the health outcomes for Women of Color. We are committed to empowering Women of Color to become healthier without sacrificing their cultural heritage.
She has helped her current and past clients lose over 100,000 lbs. while improving their overall quality of health. She has been featured in People Magazine, lost 200 pounds, is a Robert Woods Johnson Scholar, and completed her Doctoral Studies in nutrition and health policy with more than 20 years of expertise in nutrition, fitness, health equity, social justice, and medicine. - Companies
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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HUED Mamas Co App Prototype Development
The main goal for the project is to build a prototype of the HUED Mamas Co App, which is a health and nutrition app specifically designed for Black women. The app aims to provide personalized nutrition coaching, support groups, and advanced tracking functionalities for nutrition and health metrics. The app will have different tiers of membership, including general users, premium members, nutrition coaches, and administrative staff. The prototype should include user management and security features, data privacy and security measures, as well as reporting and analytics for tracking progress and performance for all users.

Project Title: Black Fertility Awareness Campaign – Marketing & Brand Awareness
The main goal of this project is to create a compelling social media campaign across multiple platforms that educates and empowers Black women on the impact of nutrition on fertility. Learners will gain experience with Flick Tech, participate in our invite-only Meta's "For the Culture" program, and video editing using Capcut, while learning how to present complex, research-backed information in an accessible and engaging way.

📲 Mobile App UI / UX Design & Prototype
We want to explore designing a prototype for a mobile application version of our current web-based product. We want students to help further our work on a prototype mobile application for our current product. This will involve: Conduct background research on existing web applications for the product. Identify key areas of our current product and how they might translate to a mobile application. Learn and use various software design tools. We currently use Flutterflow and Firebase for the backend database management. Review previous work from student group that worked on database management and the architecture for data collection through the app. Creating a screen-by-screen UX / UI prototype of a native mobile application that can be used on iOS and Android. You will have communication with our current UI/UX Graphic Designer to help further this project.

➡️ Back-End Developer & Prototype (Mobile App)
We want to explore designing a prototype for a mobile application version of our current digital product. We want students to design a prototype mobile application for our current web-based product. This will involve: Identify key areas of our current product Learn and use various software design tools. We strongly recommend that students learn how to use Figma as it is the latest and greatest available tool. Familiar with coding in SWIFT and/or React Native Willingness to learn, and to ask many, many questions Unending enthusiasm and insatiable drive to make great things Troubleshooting, debugging and winning