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Back Tech Entrepreneurs Take on Health Care's Race Gap

When Ashlee Wisdom launched an early version of her health and wellness website, more than 34,000 users — most of them Black — visited the platform in the first two weeks.

"It wasn't the most fully functioning platform," recalls Wisdom, 31. "It was not sexy."

But the launch was successful. Now, more than a year later, Wisdom's company, Health in Her Hue, connects Black women and other women of color to culturally sensitive doctors, doulas, nurses and therapists nationally.

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