This is why you haven't seen us lately...

In this first edition of our brand new newsletter, you’ll discover what we’ve been building over the past 9 months, why we reframed our mission and are relaunching our brand, AND the exciting things we have planned. Let’s get into it! →

🚫 The Decision to Ditch Social Media
Black Unicorn Education does A LOT of AI training in the Tampa Bay community. However, looking at our LinkedIn and Facebook pages you’d think we only do a smattering of things here and there. We didn’t feel like we should have to “prove” that we are actually doing the work that we are doing by posting about it, so we decided to forego the “pressure to post” and focus on fine-tuning our business. Instead of spending time on writing the perfect post, we focused our time on making our business better. It’s a decision that ended up being pivotal for us in our relaunch.

🌟 About Our NEW North Star…
Our mission and who we serve has evolved over the past two and a half years since we founded the company. We started off with a mission "to train 1 Million Black Builders in AI” with a focus on high school and college students. Then “providing imaginative tech learning to give enterprising women a starting point in tech”. And we changed again to focus on small business owners and high performance leaders. This is my first time being an entrepreneur so finding my “market fit” according to all the business experts has been a bit daunting.

When none of that worked for me, I did what I should have did from the beginning— I prayed.

After a time of prayer and seeking GOD about what He wants to do with the company, our new mission is

That’s it.

At the core of everything we do it’s about giving people the whole truth about technologies like AI: the helpful AND the harmful aspects, so they can be fully informed and make decisions that help them remain hopeful in the world.

Our mission guides everything we do:

So with our new mission in hand— we are off to change the world! 🌎🌍🌏

We are so excited and blessed beyond measure to build a…

In early 2025, Black Unicorn Education was awarded a $15K grant from BBIF, Fifth Third Bank, and Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa to build a Mobile Tech Learning Lab as part of the East Tampa Neighborhood Small Business Grant Program! We are so honored to have been selected as an awardee and are using the funds to help serve more people in the East Tampa community and beyond.

Black Unicorn Education is committed to providing AI education to executive leaders, small business owners and small business resource providers, colleges and universities, commercial, not-for-profit, government, and faith-based organizations. We also do outreach to overlooked and underestimated communities, especially low-income communities that lack access to AI resources. We repeatedly walked into facilities that did not have devices such as laptops, reliable internet, or other technical infrastructure needed for an optimal learning experience by participants.

Rather than continuing to offer a diminished experience on cell phones or having participants watch as AI tools were demo’d for them, we envisioned a mobile tech learning lab to provide our clients with a fully hands-on experience with artificial intelligence systems independent of the amount of resources they possessed. We could then deliver a consistent, high-quality, memorable tech learning experience that is consistent with the Black Unicorn Education brand every place we go!

Black Unicorn Education is here to serve LEADERS. Whether you’re leading a corporation, nonprofit, ministry, small business or at your job— we want to bring awareness about AI, help you advocate and create an action plan about how you will relate to AI in your work, business, community, and home.

Read on to find out about our first Mobile Tech Learning Lab client!

A future-forward ministry brought us in to teach their congregation about AI! We were delighted to partner with Revealing Truth Ministries Wesley Chapel as the inaugural client to pilot the launch of our Mobile Tech Learning Lab experience! Congregants young and old were captivated by the information they received and the opportunity to engage with AI through our signature hands-on learning stations. Our pilot was swimmingly successful and we now have additional opportunities for our tech learning lab in the pipeline!

▶️Watch a short BTS video recap of the experience!

Black Unicorn is BLOOMing! 🌸🌸🌸🌸

CEO, Ora Tanner has been a repeat guest on Bloom TV, a syndicated program of  WFLA Channel  8 News hosted by Gayle Guyardo. She’s educated a national audience on everything from how students can use AI for learning to the dangers of deepfakes.

Check out the episodes here:

📢 We’re AMPLIFYing our message

Black Unicorn presented a workshop on the potential and harms of AI to women business leaders at the 2025 Amplify Women Tampa Bay Summit!

▶️ Check out the recap video of the highly-rated AI workshop!

⭐ By special request, the workshop will be presented again online on Monday, September 29th at 6:30 pm EST.

Register for the event here: Get Tickets NOW!

Getting On Board with AMRoC FabLab

I am honored to be the newest Board Member for the Foundation for Community Driven Innovation! FCDI is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting academic achievement, economic development and the spirit of innovation through inspiring programs and active learning projects including robotics, drones, sewing club, and 3D printing!

Black Unicorn Education is a product of FCDI’s Equity in Entrepreneurship program that helps early-stage entrepreneurs launch their businesses. We have a long history of partnering with them to bring AI and STEM to various communities.

Join us for Black Unicorn Education’s next Mobile Tech Learning Lab experience that will take place on Friday, September 26th at the AMRoC Fab Lab. It’s a unique learning experience called AI Date Night, an elevated evening of hands-on learning about the impacts of AI Romance, Big Data Boyfriends & Chatbot Companionship on human relationships!

We’d love to meet you at this in-person event as we enjoy an evening of exploration about the emerging trend of human relationships with AI chatbots in a fun, relaxed, and engaging environment!

🎟️Get your tickets TODAY! (There’s a limited number of spots for this experience.)

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Thank you for reading all the way to the end of our inaugural newsletter! Be on the lookout for upcoming updates for what we have planned for Q4 of 2025!