My Versatile Natural Hair & I

Alicia James is an accomplished singer/songwriter, natural hair vlogger, and popular youtube personality. Alicia has been natural 3+ years. Her youtube channel offers  200+ videos consisting of hair tutorials, tips, relationship advice, and more; with nearly 20,000 subscribes, and 1.8 million views! Alicia has been featured on many popular blogs/vlogs such as Kimmaytube weekend show, The Skorpion Show, The Coil Review, just to name a few. As a singer she has been featured at The House of Blues, a finalist in the Mathews Knowles 102.1 Jams Radio competition (2011), and a finalist in the “Watch Me” 2012 contest hosted by youtube celebrity DeStorm. Alicia’s Freshman cd "Seven" is currently available on Itunes. 

Hi, I'm K.D. (Kenya), the creator of the Essence.com featured HairGurl.com! I began HairGurl in 2008 as a way to document my hair growth & encourage women to grow their hair with simple hair care practices. HairGurl features tips, hairstyle inspiration, hair interviews, how-to videos, product reviews, & beauty events for the girl or woman who wants to obtain & maintain healthy relaxed, natural, tex-laxed, & texturized hair.

Sela Steiger is the communications intern at Outdoor Afro, a blog and social networking community designed to help people of color be visible in natural spaces and the outdoors. Spending summers in Yosemite National Park as a child, involvement with nature has been, well, second-nature to her! An elementary and middle school teacher, Sela helps share her knowledge and love of all things natural both in and out of the classroom.