Women in AI+ED - Member Spotlight: EdTech
Highlighting the grassroots work happening every day across the globe to advance responsible AI adoption and training in education.
This week we’re celebrating the remarkable female educators and leaders in our community who are doing the grassroots work happening every day across the globe to advance responsible AI adoption and training in education.
From K-12 teachers thoughtfully introducing AI literacy in their classrooms to nonprofit leaders building sustainable programs for their communities, these women are doing the essential frontline work. Their efforts showcase the quiet yet powerful impact of educators who roll up their sleeves every day, leading responsible AI adoption from the ground up, one classroom, one project, and one student at a time.
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Chief Improvement Officer at Reading Horizons | USA
To build AI literacy at Reading Horizons, Kiana prioritizes the safe and ethical use of AI across the organization. She fosters spaces for ongoing learning, collaboration, and mentoring. By focusing on ethical considerations, she is encouraging team players to use AI responsibly and with an awareness of its impacts. Through targeted microlearning sessions and real-world use cases, Kiana provides practical examples highlighting AI’s benefits while maintaining accountability and integrity.
Co-founder @ Almanack | Canada
Mehar works closely with teachers to build Almanack. She is passionate about using AI to make personalized learning accessible to every student in every classroom. Alamanack’s community of teachers not only decides what features are built, but they get to 'teach' the models how to produce useful output. Mehar and her team have created these frameworks with educators and their engineers. They also ground the LLMs they use to produce more accurate and contextually specific data, and we run evals to evaluate the relevance of the output produced.
CEO, Sprout Labs Inc. | United States
Carla builds products and companies that bring the resources critical for a child’s reading success to schools, and now families. Carla is launching Sprout Labs to equip families with the tools and confidence they need to help their children thrive as confident readers. The EarlyBird screener, leveraging AI, brain science and gamification, has transformed the early literacy assessment experience for children and teachers alike, with a software game that’s engaging, predictive of reading risk, comprehensive and evidence-based.
Director of Marketing @ Alongside | USA
Margot aims to promote dialog in social and emotional learning (SEL) and mental health education around the responsible use of AI tools to enhance student and staff well-being. In 2024, She joined Alongside, a platform leveraging clinician-designed AI to deliver accessible, barrier-free mental health support for middle and high school students. Margot works closely with innovative educators and thought leaders to produce webinars, reports, and insights that spotlight the potential of ethical, evidence-based AI to augment mental health support. She aims to promote AI literacy and foster a deeper understanding of how ethical AI can transform SEL and mental health support in education.
CEO, Third Road | USA
Susan is a distinguished EdTech entrepreneur with deep expertise in leveraging technology for social impact. At Third Road, she and her team are building responsible, evidence-based AI tools to offer personalized, privacy-centered advising for students and families. Their generative AI supports informed, affordable education and career choices, drawing from established learning sciences to ensure quality guidance that empowers students to make confident, meaningful decisions.
Co-founder, CEO at Dailies EDU | USA
Jessica is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dailies, an online learning program that effectively bridges the gap between school and home. She builds high-quality, evidence based GenAI tools to support personalized learning at school and home (Prek-12) and embeds tools into workflows for lesson planning, data reporting, and differentiation practice and assessment.
CEO & Founder of Teacherbot | United Kingdom
As a teacher of 10 years with teaching experience across Scotland, Denmark, Australia and Africa, she identified common workload problems. Teachers have an unprecedented amount of work; planning, preparing differentiating and evaluating work for their students. From her experience and passion for Education Technology - Teacherbot was born.
Vice President of Product, Research & Development | USA
Jamie bridges Carnegie Learning’s Product and Research teams, leading generative AI projects that promote equity, inclusion, and meaningful learning outcomes. Ensuring AI-driven products are co-designed with educators, evidence-based, and scalable, Jamie’s work prioritizes AI ethics and transparency. She also spearheads initiatives like using AI-generated videos to foster belonging among underrepresented students and helping teachers make data-driven instructional decisions.
Head of International Expansion @ fobizz | Germany
Ksenia is passionate about solutions that help educators save time, inspire creativity, enhance classroom engagement, and improve student outcomes. As Head of International Expansion at fobizz, the team has been working with an NGO, Ukrainian Smile, to provide AI tools and training to teachers in the war zones in Ukraine. The purpose is to minimize the digital gap from this war. Additionally, AI tools and training can help teachers cope better with the daily unpredictable teaching scenarios due to Russian military attacks.
CEO @ StudyHall.AI | United Kingdom
As CEO and founder of StudyHall.AI, Sofia and her team provide reading age and other high-stakes diagnostics and use AI to prescribe and power reading and curriculum to accelerate learning goals. Evidence-based and Digital Promise certified, they offer free AI Literacy resources to help students aged 9-14 develop AI Literacy through reading about AI and our rapidly evolving world. Soon, she will launch a premium AI Literacy reading-based program with MIT Technology Review for schools and homes in December. Sofia also serves on the advisory board of Common Sense Media.
CEO @ ESAI | USA
ESAI hosts a suite of AI tools aimed at providing ethical, high-quality support for college applicants. The company aims to automate the historically expensive college advising experience with narrative-building tools that make higher education and professional opportunities more accessible for students of all backgrounds and resources. The platform has supported 350,000+ college applicants and is reaching millions of people who are looking to craft their personal narratives when applying to college!
Account Executive, Carnegie Learning | USA
For over 25 years, Abi’s mission has been to inspire a love of learning in students, helping them build brighter futures and lead better lives. Abi partners with educational organizations, school districts, and schools to help educational leaders, teachers, and students maximize their potential through ethical and equitable AI adoption.
Head of Customer Success @ Lessonspace | Hungary
Kitti focuses on building AI literacy and supporting responsible, reasonable AI adoption across the edtech sector, especially within online tutoring. She helps Lessonspace’s customers get the most out of our platform and helps educators feel confident as they integrate new technologies. Kitti is also developing a free, accessible AI in Education course that covers the fundamentals of generative AI and its application in online learning and contributes her insights on product improvements to ensure AI tools within our platform are safe and effective, creating a supportive environment where tutoring organizations, tutors, and students can benefit from AI responsibly.
Head of Education @ Mursion | USA
Catherine and her team have provided practice simulations for educators and institutions to enact what they learn about effective teaching and learning. Their simulations provide a safe space, leveraging AI and humans, for individuals to see themselves in action, reflect on, and refine their teaching practices. We have evidence-based research studies that substantiate the impact of these virtual practice simulations on improving educator's confidence, preparation, and teaching. Over 100 institutions use these simulations to support their educators with the classroom demands and to ensure students are set up to thrive.
Partner and AI Lead, GSV Ventures | USA
Claire focuses on investing in the next generation of category-leading AI EdTech companies that deliver not only strong ROI but also a meaningful return on education. Some examples include Magic School, Paloma, and Ednition—startups that are pioneering innovative solutions to transform learning outcomes and scale access to education. Claire writes a weekly newsletter on AI and education, reaching over 7000 readers. She also helped launch the inaugural AI Show at the ASU+GSV Summit, curating 100+ sessions on AI across both shows.
Founder & CEO, Yeti My Friend | United States
Sudha is focused on shaping a new and transformative learning experience that brings mindful, enriching screen time to children, blending her expertise in design, AI, and product strategy. As founder and CEO of Yeti My Friend, Sudha and her team are dedicated to building literacy and promoting responsible tech adoption through mindful use of AI for personalization, content development, and accessibility. Sudha and her team take an evidence-based approach to learning engineering, developed in collaboration with child development experts, neuroscientists, and educators.
Founder, The Lavender Spaceship Project | Singapore
As an educator entrepreneur passionate about promoting girls in technology, Pranati is curious to learn how AI will impact girls and their role in shaping this technology. This year, she and her team have launched their Adventures with AI program, specially designed for girls 12-16 years old, with support from Gen AI experts. This program delivers a holistic understanding of this new technology—how it works, its advantages and limitations, how to use it creatively, and how to think critically about it. They also teach the girls the importance of privacy and responsible and ethical use of AI.
Director of Education Solutions @ Learning.com | USA
Leading the instructional design and content teams at Learning.com, Dr. Erwin and her team create a curriculum to teach students about AI. Topics include: What is AI, How Does AI Work, Prompt Engineering, Why and When to Use AI, Ethics of AI. From instruction to practice and application of knowledge and skills, the team has created engaging and interactive learning experiences for students. In addition to content creation, being a pioneer on their AI Committee to evaluate tools, share ways to effectively and efficiently use AI to impact job functions, and train internal teams on the use of AI has driven my passion and curiosity for AI.
Content Director @ fobizz | USA
Together with fobizz and to-teach.ai, Katharina runs a free AI certification training for educators from all around the globe. She worked as a teacher for 10 years, and it is an incredible experience to be working with educators from over 60 countries in this different role. Through a 6 week course, we equip educators with the skills for using AI effectively and for fostering AI fluency in their students. All their content is GDPR compliant, they create PD courses with experts, and are dedicated to safe and open-minded innovation in education.
Cofounder and COO @ Careerspan
Logan co-founded Careerspan, an AI-powered career companion platform reimagining career mobility and storytelling. Their Career Roadmap tool offers personalized guidance, helping users map their experiences to new roles, identify gaps, and develop their authentic stories to stand out in applications and interviews. We partner with universities and career programs to scale existing support, making career growth more accessible and impactful.
Educational Technology Consultant; Design for You Learning | USA
Renee is the Community Manager for Almanack and is currently building out an ambassador program. She also consults with new AI tools in the education space to help ensure they are focused on equity, limit bias, and are suitable for the K-12 space.
Content and Training Manager, SchoolAI | USA
Maureen’s biggest passion is harnessing AI technology effectively in the classroom. With 16 years of experience as a former educator and 9 years as a technology coach, she understands the challenges teachers face and their profound impact on their students. At SchoolAI, Maureen and her team focus on using AI to help educators personalize learning in ways that feel natural and impactful.
Co-Founder, Thinkle | India
Growing up in a small town in India, Jiya always saw the impact of educational opportunities. Preparing for business school, she questioned how technology could help students discover and plan their own careers. After London Business School, she started learning more about tech products and now helps students make more informed career decisions through Thinkle. Thinkle is building a career discovery platform powered by gen AI to help students predict career paths based on historical data of people who are ahead in their careers.
Chief Product Officer @ Inkwire | USA
Moni introduced the first Computer Science classes at Oakland's Urban Promise Academy and developed project-based assessments for tech companies at Byteboard, as co-founder of Inkwire with fellow educator Aatash Parikh, Moni champions classroom learning that equips students with skills for a rapidly evolving workplace. Inkwire’s AI copilot allows K-12 teachers to design project-based curricula that are aligned to academic standards and workforce competencies in a fraction of the time.
Edtech & AI Specialist @ Twin Science | Turkey, UK
Through her work at Twin Science & Robotics, Ebru integrates high-quality, evidence-based, generative AI tools into STEM education, giving webinars and training sessions to educators worldwide. She actively collaborates with major tech companies like Intel, alongside ministries, embassies, and foundations globally, to empower educators and students. These partnerships enable her to create meaningful, accessible AI learning experiences, contributing to a more inclusive and impactful future in education.
Senior Teacher Training and Learning Programs Manager @ Merlyn Mind | USA
Wendy leads comprehensive AI integration initiatives, focusing on teacher training and designs and implements learning programs across multiple stakeholder groups. Wendy also delivers virtual and onsite professional development around Responsible AI and policy creation, while supporting MerlynMind's product development and maintaining the company's teacher community. She leads a cross-functional team to create logic models for Merlyn products and contributes to state partnership grants.
Customer Onboarding Consultant | Global Secondary Education @ Turnitin | USA
Julie’s work in EdTech focuses on providing practical strategies to integrate AI into the classroom meaningfully and ethically and empowering students to become responsible digital citizens. By training teachers to use AI detection tools, Turnitin fosters a learning environment where students can explore AI's potential while developing strong writing skills and critical thinking abilities. This approach ensures that AI is used as a tool to enhance learning, not replace it.
CEO/Founder @ Gibbly | Canada
Mallory Maynard is the Founder and CEO of Gibbly, an e-learning platform dedicated to giving teachers back valuable time each week through AI-powered teaching tools. She and her team are working collaboratively with educators to build AI tools that meaningful improve their quality of life, helping them spend less time on lesson prep and more time connecting with their students.As a STEM advocate, Mallory is on a mission to empower more young women to step into leadership and technical roles.
Education Evangelist @ Adobe | USA
Shel helps teachers build cultures of creativity in their classrooms by using Adobe Express for Education, the creativity app with responsible generative AI designed to be classroom-safe. She regularly works with teachers and K12 students, teaching them to write effective prompts and use text-to-image capabilities to express their thinking in deeper ways.
