About Us

Amal Hassan is a seventeen year old rising high school senior at Osbourn Park High School. While being devoted with her studies, she also endures in her passion for reading and journaling creative ideas that flow into her mind at any moment. Through her flow of creative ideas, she reflects on the issues that society has decided to not capture attention towards. Having endured much trouble in finding her true identity when it came to her own hair, she discovered that accepting your identity was possible through her natural hair. Through countless salon visits, products and protective styles, Amal self taught herself the mechanics of maintaining beautiful, natural hair. Wanting to save other girls from this tiring journey, naturELLE aims in assisting women with finding salons that cater to hair type and texture. Natural hair is an upcoming issue that has arisen from the darkness. NaturELLE is more than an app that allows every girl access to her hair needs, it’s allowing women of all ethnicities the freedom to embrace their natural selves. Amal is the youngest as well as the only girl in her family. She aims in pursuing her dream of being a pediatrician.

Emma Kay is a sixteen-year-old rising junior at Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC. This summer she has discovered a passion for solving problems with code and for creating solutions using computer science. In her free time she enjoys hiking, climbing, and reading.

Cynthia Wang is a 16 year old rising junior from McLean High School in Northern Virginia. She began pursuing her interest in computer science last year, and loved the process of creating a program and problem solving to develop code that could successfully perform functions. Cynthia saw how useful computer science was and wanted to create a program this summer that would use technology to enhance people’s lives by making previously difficult and time consuming tasks much simpler by utilizing the speed and other capabilities of computers.She found the use of apps that used the locations of the user to be interesting and decided to create an app with her group that would find the locations of the nearest hair salon for users based on their hair type, and desired price range. Outside of computer science, she enjoys playing tennis and running.