diff --git a/_includes/head.html b/_includes/head.html
index 61f269c0be98..c03f39634cc8 100644
--- a/_includes/head.html
+++ b/_includes/head.html
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 <head>
+  <!-- Font Awesome -->
+  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.6.0/css/all.min.css">
+
   <!-- Google Tag Manager -->
   <script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':
     new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 30c1eaa3ec7b..c921dd511169 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -73,6 +73,12 @@
   font-size: 0.95rem;
 }
 
+.highlight-list i {
+  color: #0077cc; /* match your link color or accent color */
+  margin-right: 8px;
+  font-size: 1rem;
+}
+
 </style>
 
 <style>
@@ -94,8 +100,8 @@
 <div class="section">
   <h3>Highlights</h3>
   <ul class="highlight-list">
-    <li>🧠 <a href="/projects">Built machine learning classification models with TensorFlow and scikit-learn to predict whether mushrooms are edible or poisonous.</a></li>
-    <li>📈 <a href="/blog">Latest post: "Lessons learned failing to use machine learning models to predict fantasy football scores."</a></li>
+    <li><i class="fa-solid fa-brain"></i> <a href="/projects">Built machine learning classification models with TensorFlow and scikit-learn to predict whether mushrooms are edible or poisonous.</a></li>
+    <li><i class="fa-solid fa-pen-nib"></i> <a href="/blog">Latest post: "Lessons learned failing to use machine learning models to predict fantasy football scores."</a></li>
   </ul>
 </div>
 
