Bridging Research to Healthcare: Coercive Control Awareness Poster

The project aims to address the often-overlooked issue of coercive control in healthcare settings. Coercive control is a subtle yet damaging form of psychological and social abuse that significantly impacts health and well-being. Despite its seriousness, it is frequently absent from clinical conversations. The Feminine Intelligence Agency (FIA) has compiled extensive research on this topic, including survivor-informed language and best practices for support. The goal of this project is to translate this rich research base into an educational poster that can be displayed in healthcare environments. This poster will serve as a tool for both doctors and patients to recognize and understand the implications of coercive control. By doing so, the project seeks to enhance awareness and improve the quality of care provided to those affected by this form of abuse.

Reproductive Agency Empowerment Toolkit

Students will develop a practical toolkit to assess and strengthen bodily autonomy —the right and ability of individuals to make decisions about their own bodies without coercion, manipulation, or misinformation. They will: ✅ Conduct interviews with women, health workers, and community members to understand how bodily autonomy is supported or undermined in their daily lives—what challenges exist, and what helps people assert this fundamental right. ✅ Use these real-world insights to create a developmental framework (inspired by Clare Graves) that maps out levels of bodily autonomy —from survival-based compliance to full self-determination and collective advocacy. ✅ Identify micro-skills that support bodily autonomy—like assertiveness, emotional regulation, and information-seeking. ✅ Map social media messaging that aligns with these levels—seeing what messages resonate with different stages of autonomy development. ✅ Develop a set of culturally sensitive questions that can be used by health workers, educators, or community leaders to assess bodily autonomy in individuals—questions that map directly to these micro-skills and levels. ✅ Create a comprehensive, adaptable toolkit to meet women where they are— not to judge, but to support growth and agency .

Empowering Cybersecurity: Combating Social Engineering with AI

Feminine Intelligence Agency (FIA) is expanding its services to include cybersecurity solutions aimed at protecting women from digital threats, particularly in the realm of social engineering . As generative AI tools continue to advance, they are transforming traditional manipulation tactics, making them more sophisticated, personalized, and pervasive. This project will task cybersecurity students with researching the landscape of generative AI tools and analyzing how these technologies are reshaping the field of social engineering. The students will identify specific threats that generative AI poses, particularly in scenarios like coercive control and psychological exploitation, and develop actionable recommendations for women to mitigate these risks. The final deliverables will directly support FIA’s goal of offering cutting-edge cybersecurity education and services to its customers.

Empowered Discernment: Social Martial Arts Animation

At the Feminine Intelligence Agency (FIA) , our mission is to teach people about social discernment —the ability to recognize manipulation, power games, and social dynamics that keep people stuck or controlled. But we’re running into a problem: many women aren’t excited about learning social discernment because they’ve been taught that if someone manipulates or abuses you, it must mean there’s something wrong with you—like you’re weak or “not enough.” We want to challenge that narrative completely. We believe that learning to see through social manipulation isn’t a sign of weakness or self-doubt—it’s part of a long history of liberation movements . From civil rights to gender justice to community activism, people have always needed to see through power to protect themselves and to stand up for each other. Especially now , with so many recent political events—from police violence to public gaslighting to political strongmen who use charm and fear to manipulate the public—people feel powerless, and it’s easy to internalize that feeling as shame or personal failure. But social discernment offers a way to channel that sense of powerlessness into clarity and collective action . Learning about the narcissistic tactics used by abusers—whether in personal relationships or on the national stage—shows that these manipulations aren’t random or personal weaknesses. They’re patterns that can be seen, named, and ultimately countered —making social discernment both deeply personal and profoundly political . Create a two-minute animated educational video that reframes social discernment from the outdated “abuse education” narrative—often associated with images of powerless, insecure women—and instead frames it as a form of social martial arts: a disciplined, empowering practice for reading power plays and staying agile in a world full of hidden pressures. Your animation should tap into the widespread feeling of powerlessness that people are experiencing right now and channel it into a story that shows social discernment as a tool for regaining agency and navigating social dynamics with independence and precision.