Through Love Mobile®’s Love Grows program, 232 learners have earned 622 free career tech certifications. Cohort 3 applications close Nov. 30.

Get out your own way and bet on yourself. You qualify. You’re worthy.”

— Chef LaToya Larkin Parker, owner of Black Girl Tamales®

TULSA, OK, UNITED STATES, November 10, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — For 26 years, LaToya Larkin Parker taught people how to cook. Technology was not her field. “I’m not tech,” she said.

Today she holds six career tech certifications. She earned every one of them for $0 through Love Grows, the free career tech certification program from Love Mobile®, The Cellphone Company That Gives Back®. Love Mobile® has now opened Cohort 3 applications, which close November 30, at getlovemobile.com/love-grows.

Learners earn free career tech certifications in fields such as cybersecurity, data analytics, AI, project management and UX design. Graduates receive free career coaching to help them land the job. Applicants do not need to be Love Mobile® customers.

From Houston to Tulsa, and Into Tech

Chef Larkin Parker owns Black Girl Tamales® in Tulsa. A layoff hit just as she was preparing to move from Houston. She moved anyway.

She set out to learn AI and earn tech certifications. Then the Love Mobile® program appeared in her LinkedIn feed. “This is perfect alignment,” she said.

She earned all six, including UX Design, Project Management and Business Intelligence, without paying anything out of pocket.

“Now I can confidently say I’m a tech professional,” said Chef Larkin Parker.

A Story Many Families Know

Her starting point is a familiar one: a parent rebuilding after a layoff, a worker told that a better job requires a degree, a relative who keeps putting school off for one more year. Love Grows was built for each of them.

Cohort members do not get a login and a goodbye. They meet virtually with the company founders and fellow cohort members, once a month, to check in, celebrate finished certifications and prepare resumes and interviews.

“It was important for us not just to open that door, but to hold hands and walk this community through those opportunities,” said Koddi Dunn, Co-Founder and CEO of Love Mobile®.

It Started With One Certificate

Wade Dunn Jr., Co-Founder and COO, chose certifications over a college degree. His first, an IT support certificate, led to a device support role at a major tech company. He rose to manager, then training manager, then moved into human resources. Later, as a corporate consultant, he helped certificate holders get hired at the Fortune 500 company where he worked. That work led to Love Grows.

“One certificate changed the direction of my life,” said Wade Dunn Jr. “Everybody knows someone ready for a new chapter. All they need is an opportunity. We wanted to create the same opportunity for them that was extended to me.”

What Cohorts 1 and 2 Produced

Love Mobile®‘s Cohort 1 & 2 report counted 232 learners, 622 career tech certifications, 3,334 hours of learning and over $100,000 in scholarships. The program is made possible by Love Mobile®‘s partners and subscribers.

What These Fields Pay

Cybersecurity, data analytics and AI have been the top requests from past learners. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects jobs for data scientists to grow 34.6% and jobs for information security analysts to grow 21.0% from 2025 to 2035, compared with 3.5% for all occupations. Median annual pay in May 2025 for jobs in the fields these certifications cover:

• Cybersecurity (information security analysts): $129,180
• Data and business intelligence (data scientists): $120,230
• UX design (web and digital interface designers): $104,000
• Project management (project management specialists): $102,320
• IT support (computer user support specialists): $61,860

The median for all U.S. workers was $50,980. Pay varies with experience, education and location.

A Message to the Next Cohort

Chef Larkin Parker has a message for anyone who sees themselves, or someone they love, in her story: “Get out your own way and bet on yourself. You qualify. You’re worthy.”

To apply for Cohort 3 by November 30, visit getlovemobile.com/love-grows.

Love Mobile® co-founders Koddi Dunn and Wade Dunn Jr. are available for interviews.

About Love Mobile®

“We didn’t start a company and then decide to give back. We decided to give back so we started a company,” said Wade Dunn Jr., Co-Founder and COO.

Love Mobile®, The Cellphone Company That Gives Back®, is a prepaid wireless provider headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Co-founders Koddi Dunn (CEO) and Wade Dunn Jr. (COO) started the company with one question at a kitchen table: how can giving back become automatic? Love Mobile® operates on three of the major US networks, which it brands Love Pink, Love Blue powered by AT&T and Love Red. Through the Give Back Model™, every plan helps nonprofits in the communities its subscribers call home.

Recognition

Love Mobile® has been featured by national and international outlets including ABC, NBC, FOX, Yahoo Finance and AfroTech, and was named a Gusto Impact Award finalist. Its founders have been featured on industry main stages in Spain, Miami, Las Vegas, Brazil and Tulsa.

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