Our Mission
Our mission is to restore confidence, dignity, and cultural pride in the Black community by offering free, high-quality hair care as a form of community service and empowerment. We believe every child deserves to feel seen, celebrated, and crowned, inside and out. Through styling, cultural education, and the vast connections made in this process, we affirm the beauty and brilliance rooted in every curl, coil, and crown.
Programming Pillars
Cultural Competency Education
Project Crown’s Cultural Competency pillar educates youth on the history, significance, and politics of Black hair. Through workshops, participants explore identity and resistance against Eurocentric beauty standards, fostering pride, confidence, and cultural heritage.
Creative Expression
Our Creative Expression pillar empowers youth to embrace their identity through hair artistry. Participants learn practical hair care and styling skills, fostering confidence, versatility, and self-love.
Business Literacy
Project Crown’s Business Literacy pillar empowers youth to turn hairstyling skills into profitable ventures. Participants learn pricing, marketing, client communication, and financial management, transforming creative talent into sustainable economic independence.
Our Story
Jadyn Settles and Dorcas Mousas were two Spelmanites with a love for hairstyling and an aspiration to create social change. After connecting through their passion for black haircare, the two students became dedicated to bridging the gap for people who may lack access to culturally competent hair care, launching in the fall of 2025. Today, they have improved the confidence and image of many students, unhoused individuals, and more throughout the Atlanta West End community.
Crown Kits
Every child who receives a hairstyle or haircut through Project Crown goes home with a Crown Kit which is a take-home set of essentials designed to help them care for their new look long after they leave the chair. Each kit is stocked with shampoo, conditioner, edge control, brushes, wide-tooth combs, satin bonnets, durags, hair ties and clips depending on if their hair was cut or styled. Kits also include our "More Than a Style"card which include affirmations for them to recite to themselves in order to boost their self confidence. Together, these tools turn a single hair service into the start of a lifelong routine.
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Project Crown is currently working to provide materials for a series haircare events for the youth at the John H. Harland Boys & Girls Club and local Atlanta Public Schools, where we will not only be doing hair for the kids, but teaching them how to maintain their hair, and why doing so is important. We are also hoping to create "Crown kits" containing hair care maintenance items for the children, such as oil, combs brushes and more!
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Get in touch with us to learn more about Project Crown and how you can support our cause.
Atlanta, GA
(470) 652-3252
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