Listening Lab Expansion Strategy

The Listening Lab is a scalable, community-driven wellness initiative designed to provide nervous system regulation and emotional support through structured peer pods. It serves individuals experiencing intense emotions who may not want or be able to access therapy. The program avoids peer therapy pitfalls by assigning rotating coaching and creative roles instead of advice-giving, fostering empowerment, expression, and emotional resilience. FIA has already developed the core theory, initial simulation, and a draft design. We are seeking graduate students in public health to help advance this into a pilot-ready model by selecting focus areas aligned with their interests and competencies. Project Options for Students (Choose 1–2): 1. Program Design & Health Promotion Strategy Translate Listening Lab’s theory into a detailed health promotion program. Design participant-facing materials (e.g., facilitation guides, safety disclaimers, onboarding forms). Identify public health frameworks (e.g., trauma-informed care, social support theory) to structure the intervention. Deliverable: A full intervention logic model or promotional campaign plan. 2. Technology Feasibility & Peer Role Design Recommend digital tools to facilitate remote peer pods (e.g., Zoom, Discord, Circle). Help shape peer roles that promote participation and emotional safety. Design protocols to ensure participants don't engage in untrained therapy behaviors. Deliverable: A set of peer pod role cards and a technology comparison chart. 3. Evidence-Based Evaluation Strategy Conduct a literature review on community-based emotional regulation programs. Design an evaluation plan to measure safety, satisfaction, and potential health outcomes. Recommend pre/post metrics or participant surveys for low-barrier data collection. Deliverable: A 2-page evaluation plan + annotated bibliography. 4. Community Outreach & Equity Plan Identify target populations for the pilot (e.g., college students, single mothers, neurodivergent adults). Develop an inclusive outreach and recruitment plan, considering stigma and access barriers. Suggest community partners or local organizations for pilot testing. Deliverable: A strategic outreach brief and equity checklist.

SEO & Audience Fit Dashboard Development for FIA

The Feminine Intelligence Agency (FIA) is a social-impact organization dedicated to advancing women’s equality. Our mission is to teach women how to spot, resist, and neutralize coercive tactics in relationships, workplaces, and public life. We develop tools, research, and training in the emerging field of Social Discernment —the ability to recognize power moves and manipulation before they escalate into coercive control. Defining the Field Social Discernment is the study of how individuals identify and interpret power moves —the subtle strategies of influence, dominance, or manipulation that shape social, professional, and political contexts. It bridges psychology, sociology, and data science to help people separate authentic collaboration from exploitation and anticipate hidden agendas. This work is especially timely: political rhetoric, media narratives, and online culture are saturated with performative displays of power (“flexing”) . Just as financial literacy helps individuals detect fraud, social discernment provides a framework for detecting manipulation and coercion , enabling women to protect their rights and autonomy. Project Overview FIA has drafted 70 original articles that pioneer the conceptual foundations of Social Discernment . These articles are rich in insight but vary in polish and accessibility. To establish thought leadership and broaden impact, FIA needs to align this canon of work with current industry trends and audience demand . Students will build a recommendation engine that analyzes FIA’s draft articles, matches them with publicly available trend and keyword data, and produces data-driven publishing guidance . The aim is to prioritize and tailor FIA’s articles for maximum visibility while preserving their originality and depth. Scope of Work Theme Analysis: Cluster FIA’s 70 draft articles into core topics using NLP and clustering methods. Trend Matching: Use free public sources (Google Trends, AnswerThePublic, keyword datasets) to map articles against high-demand or rising topics. Platform Fit: Recommend best publication platforms for each article (LinkedIn, Medium, Substack, X) based on content features and audience. Keyword Guidance: Suggest trending words or phrases to strengthen article titles and summaries. Publishing Calendar: Propose timing windows for releasing high-priority articles.

Automated Business Model Discovery Tool

The Listening Lab is a global wellness initiative designed to bring women together across race, class, and culture to share their lives in a safe, supportive space. Unlike therapy—which is often expensive and inaccessible—the Listening Lab provides community care that is affordable, inclusive, and fair , while actively protecting vulnerable women and addressing bias. To make this vision possible, FIA is exploring creative business models that could sustain the Listening Lab without limiting access only to the wealthy. We have identified a large opportunity matrix of 60 business models × 15 target markets (900 possible combinations). We will provide students with a structured evaluation prompt (based on the Six Thinking Hats framework) that surfaces both risks and opportunities for any business model × market pair and produces an overall score. Students will then: Automate the process in Python by applying the prompt to the entire opportunity matrix. Aggregate and score results into a tabular format. Visualize findings in a dashboard , including a heatmap of opportunity. This will allow FIA to quickly identify the most promising opportunities and decide where to conduct small-scale real-world tests.

Empowerment Dashboard Design with Synthetic Data

The Feminine Intelligence Agency (FIA) is a social innovation startup that builds tools to help women and other vulnerable populations recognize coercion, build psychological resilience, and protect themselves in relationships, workplaces, and digital environments. We’ve developed a suite of educational tools based on years of psychological research, including: The Agency Calculator – A diagnostic tool that scores users on 20 dimensions of personal agency (e.g., boundaries, emotional regulation, critical thinking, autonomy). The BlindSpot Quiz – A self-awareness tool that reveals a user's potential manipulation blind spots or psychological vulnerabilities. The Player Identifier Chatbot – An AI-guided conversation tool that scores patterns in past or present relationships to detect early warning signs of coercive control. All tools are grounded in a custom-built trait scoring system, and the backend is currently being migrated to a graph database (Neo4j) to support interactive analysis and visualization. The Goal of This Project: Your job is to take our structured psychological framework and design a user-facing data dashboard using synthetic data . This dashboard should help users: Understand their strengths and areas for growth across the 20 agency traits See how their relationship history or quiz patterns affect their risk profile Get personalized suggestions for chatbot training modules or education content Track their learning journey or improvement over time This dashboard should be visually intuitive , empowering , and curious-user-friendly . Think of it as the bridge between psychological insight and actionable growth. Data Provided: You’ll be given structured synthetic datasets that mirror real patterns from FIA’s tools (no real user data, no PII). These datasets will include: Trait scores from the Agency Calculator (0–10 scale, 20 traits) Vulnerability cluster types from the BlindSpot Quiz Player-type pattern flags from relationship assessments Sample chatbot session logs (e.g., user selected “Egocentric Evan,” answered 6/10 confrontation questions) Suggested learning modules and growth paths (Optional) simulated session timestamps for visualizing progress over time