Essence Magazine:
By Jasmine Browley ·Updated March 8, 2024
In the summer of 2020, Leigh Higginbotham Butler needed a safe space to learn how to talk her Black boys about the country’s civil unrest. She couldn’t find a place, so she created one.
Akina, a CaaS (Community-as-a-Service) app and platform that leverages culturally-competent AI and machine learning technology, was her brainchild to help galvanize experts and organizations to commune and help one another.
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