Staff
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Chief Financial Officer
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Director, People & Culture
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Training & Instruction Manager, College Pathways
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Director, Communications
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Data & Evaluation
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Director, College Pathways
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Chief Executive Officer
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University Partnerships Manager, College Pathways
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Career Development Manager, College Pathways
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Curriculum Lead, College Pathways

Candice Chung
Chief Financial Officer
Candice Chung is the Chief Financial Officer at AI4ALL, where she leads the finance and administrative functions.
Prior to joining AI4ALL, Candice served as Senior Director, Grants Management at the KIPP Foundation. There, she managed federal and private grants funding the development of new schools and supporting training programs for school leaders in educationally underserved communities.
Candice is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds a B.S. in Commerce, with a concentration in Accounting, from the University of Virginia.

Dominique Dominguez
Director, People & Culture
Pronouns: She/Her/They/Them
Born and raised in East Oakland, CA, daughter to a first-generation Mexican immigrant family, DD has first-hand experience of the challenges and inequities within the education system. Through mentorship and exposure to creating political street art, her passion for education was reignited. DD graduated from Mills College with a degree in Ethnic Studies, focused on Community Organizing & Social Justice.
DD brings a wide range of skills acquired through a diverse background in both nonprofit and for-profit sectors, with ample experience building and streamlining processes in areas such as recruiting, onboarding, employee engagement, and affinity programs. As a self-starter inspired by environmental and social justice, she sees the value of investing in individuals and providing meaningful support to improve the employee experience by lifting up diverse team experiences, creativity, and belonging. DD is dedicated to cultivating a human-centered approach through a race equity lens in all aspects of her Talent work and is enthusiastic about leveraging AI4ALL’s values to strengthen that commitment.
In her free time, you can find DD with her partner Chris and their dog Ruby driving along the California coast looking for surf and dog-friendly beaches or exploring new hiking trails.

Dr. Amir Golnabi
Training & Instruction Manager, College Pathways
Amir Golnabi is an applied mathematician, engineer, and educator with several years of experience in higher education as well as grades 9-12. As Training & Instruction Manager at AI4ALL, he is involved with the design and implementation of the College Pathways program.
Amir studied Mathematics and Computer Engineering at the University of Salamanca in Spain, before transferring to Montclair State University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 2007. He then started his graduate studies at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. His doctoral thesis was on “Computational Aspect of Tomographic Microwave Imaging for Biomedical Applications.” During his doctoral program, he also completed an Engineering Management Certificate at Dartmouth College. In 2012, he joined the Pulmonary Imaging and Bioengineering Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) with an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School. From 2014 to 2020, he was a faculty member in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Montclair States University where he taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate mathematics courses. Currently, he is also an Instructor in Mathematics at Phillips Exeter Academy.
Amir has a track record of peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, and awards, including the Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Society of Leadership and Success. His engineering research interests include mathematical modeling, medical image processing, and AI. As a passionate educator, he enjoys interacting with students both inside and outside the classroom. His interest in education research includes educational leadership, curriculum development, educational technology, and deep learning.
Amir loves spending time with his family, cooking, oil-painting, and listening to music.

Nicole Halmi
Director, Communications
Nicole Halmi is the Director of Communications at AI4ALL, where she works to make artificial intelligence more diverse and inclusive and to ensure that AI is developed responsibly. Before AI4ALL, she was an early team member at Neon Labs. At Neon, Nicole led communications and marketing and additionally managed the development of AI-powered, patented video publishing products. Before Neon, Nicole worked with underresourced young adults with developmental disabilities, supporting them to find meaningful work. Nicole received an A.B. from Brown University in Modern Culture and Media, where she focused on language and translation in the broader context of modern cultural and social formations. She has spoken about the need for diverse perspectives in AI at venues including Teen Vogue Summit, AWS ImagineEDU, and the IBM Executive Forum for Senior Education Leadership.

Dr. Beth McBride
Data & Evaluation
Beth McBride is an engineer, researcher, and educator. In her Data & Evaluation role, Beth works to maintain a consistent data pipeline that allows for sharing of data across AI4ALL programs, ensuring alignment across the organization on evaluation and data collection, and providing support for AI4ALL’s research partnerships and papers.
Prior to joining AI4ALL, Beth worked as an education researcher and curriculum developer at SRI International and UC Berkeley, developing integrated STEM curriculum units, conducting evaluations of curricular efficacy, and researching the use of AI in online education. Beth also previously worked with USAID in Liberia to develop curriculum and lead summer programs for high school students interested in engineering. Beth earned a BSE in Earth Systems Science and Engineering and a Masters of Engineering in Applied Climate Science, both from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!) and a Ph.D. in Science and Mathematics Education from the University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley, she also had the opportunity to study Finnish and won a grant to do immersive language training in Finland. Beth is a Michigan native but now lives in Oakland, CA. Outside of her work at AI4ALL, you can find her dreaming of backpacking in the Sierra, decorating cupcakes, or at a public library.

Dr. Sean Peters
Director, College Pathways
Sean Peters is an engineer, educator, and entrepreneur with experience designing and implementing student-centered curriculum at the college and K-12 level. As the Director of College Pathways, Sean leads AI4ALL’s partnerships and programming strategies for attracting new college-level students to AI and supporting them as they continue their academic path in AI. Sean served as the curriculum manager and then the senior manager on the College Pathways team before stepping into the role of director.
Prior to joining AI4ALL, Sean worked at the Center for Technology and School Change (CTSC) at Teachers College, Columbia University. There he trained and engaged teachers and administrators as designers of authentic, rigorous, standards-aligned transdisciplinary STEM learning experiences with meaningful technology integration.
Sean earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. Sean’s contribution to the field through his doctoral research focused on mitigating the impact of cyber attacks by defining a metric of privacy using Information Theory and designing an anonymously distributed communication protocol for cloud-based entities.
Sean is also the founder of My Body, My Kitchen, an online community devoted to empowering its members with the tools to take control of their wellness and fitness.

Emily Reid
Chief Executive Officer
Emily is a dynamic leader in AI education and responsible AI, dedicated to promoting diversity and responsible AI frameworks in the tech industry. As the CEO of AI4ALL, she is democratizing pathways to AI careers and creating opportunities for historically excluded AI Changemakers. Emily is passionate about making AI work for humans, and believes that AI should be created by an ethics-informed, representative workforce. With a fresh perspective and a focus on impact and responsible AI, she is leading the charge to cultivate a new generation of AI Changemakers who will steer AI in the right direction.
Previously, Emily was the VP of Open Learning at AI4ALL, a program that brought AI education to more than 4,000 students in over 850 classrooms in 48 states and the District of Columbia. Emily was also the founding Director of Education at Girls Who Code, leading a team that taught over 30,000 girls to code and trained over 2,000 computer science educators. Before Girls Who Code, Emily was a Senior Cyber Security Engineer at the MITRE Corporation and has published research in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
Emily holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and a B.S. in Mathematics from Tufts University.

Alvaro Rojas-Caamano
University Partnerships Manager, College Pathways
Alvaro Rojas-Caamano is the University Partnerships Manager of College Pathways at AI4ALL. In this role, Alvaro manages relationships with universities and supports AI4ALL’s overall mission by contributing to the scaling of the program.
Before joining AI4ALL, Alvaro worked in the higher education field for over 15 years, both managing partnerships at education management organizations, and within universities as a staff member. Most recently, Alvaro worked at Columbia University’s engineering school, where he oversaw the student engagement/life programming for over 2,000 graduate students–from onboarding to graduation.
Alvaro has a B.A. in Psychology from Montclair State University and a M.A. in International Education from New York University.
Alvaro believes that cultivating a more diverse and inclusive space in AI will become increasingly important as the industry and its technology evolve. Additionally, he hopes to contribute to the work that facilitates a more empathic dialogue between industry leaders and the greater community in terms of how new and emergent technologies can impact at-risk populations.

Thalea Torres
Career Development Manager, College Pathways
Thalea Torres is the Career Development Manager of College Pathways at AI4ALL, where she is building and supporting ways for AI4ALL’s college-age students to chart their AI career trajectories. She is passionate about working towards equity and justice for marginalized groups, and believes that AI and tech are areas for incredible social impact.
Thalea received her Master’s of Science in Social Work from Columbia University with a focus and minor in public policy. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley. She has a background in youth development, direct practice, program management and development, research, and policy analysis. She has worked with a variety of populations including high school health education and workforce, foster youth and families, adults and children with disabilities, and English language learners abroad. Most recently she served as a Research Fellow for SAFElab, Columbia Population Research Center at Columbia University, where she collaborated with MIT and youth at the Brownsville Community Justice Center to create an immersive simulation training intervention for social media surveillance practices.
Thalea also loves fitness, superhero movies, and identifying every bakery within a 10-mile radius.

Diane Uwacu
Curriculum Lead, College Pathways
Diane is a Ph.D. candidate at Texas A&M University and a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Diane received her B.S. from Oklahoma Christian University in Computer Science and she is currently working towards a Ph.D. degree in computer science. Her research is focused on applications of motion planning algorithms in robotics and computational biology through topology-guided sampling-based planning.
As a student at Texas A&M, Diane worked to increase interest in STEM for K-12 students in Texas through the AggieStem program. She has served as president of Aggie Women in Computer Science, leading efforts to increase participation in Computer Science for women. She has also mentored undergraduate students through research, several of whom are currently in graduate school.
In her free time, Diane likes to discover good stories in novels, documentaries, and interesting conversations.
Board and Advisors
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AI4ALL Co-founder and Board Chair, Stanford University
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AI4ALL Co-founder and Board Member, Princeton University
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AI4ALL Co-Founder and Board Member, Stanford University
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AI4ALL Board Member, NewView Capital
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AI4ALL Board Member, NAEHAS
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AI4ALL Board Member
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AI4ALL Advisor, NavDots, LLC
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AI4ALL Advisor, GM
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AI4ALL Advisor, Microsoft
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AI4ALL Advisor, World Economic Forum
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AI4ALL Advisor, Kapor Center
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AI4ALL Advisor, Accenture
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AI4ALL Advisor, Dropbox
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AI4ALL Advisor, NVIDIA
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AI4ALL Advisor, Schmidt Futures
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AI4ALL Advisor, Harvey Mudd College
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AI4ALL Advisor, Apple
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AI4ALL Advisor, Capital One
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AI4ALL Advisor, SAS
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AI4ALL Advisor, SoftBank Group
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AI4ALL Advisor, CrowdSmart
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AI4ALL Advisor, OHUB
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AI4ALL Advisor, IBM
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AI4ALL Advisor, Salesforce
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AI4ALL Advisor, Adobe
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AI4ALL Advisor, EY
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AI4ALL Advisor, Playground Global

Dr. Fei-Fei Li
AI4ALL Co-founder and Board Chair, Stanford University
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Initiative, Co-Director and Co-PI at the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. Dr. Li’s main research areas are in machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and cognitive and computational neuroscience. She has published more than 200 scientific articles in top-tier journals and conferences, including Nature, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, CVPR, ICCV, NIPS, ECCV, IJCV, IEEE-PAMI, ICRA, New England Journal of Medicine, etc. She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and has received numerable recognition and awards for her scientific work and leadership in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Li obtained her B.A. degree in physics from Princeton in 1999 with High Honors and her PhD degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2005. She is a co-founder and board chair of AI4ALL.

Dr. Olga Russakovsky
AI4ALL Co-founder and Board Member, Princeton University

Dr. Rick Sommer
AI4ALL Co-Founder and Board Member, Stanford University
Dr. Rick Sommer is Executive Director of Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies, and Lecturer in Mathematics and Philosophy at Stanford University. He received his doctoral degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, and then joined the Stanford Department of Mathematics as Gabor Szego Assistant Professor. In 1995, he helped launch
the Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC) for which he continues to serve as Director and Lecturer. In 1996, Dr. Sommer began developing online courses for Stanford’s Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY), using innovative technology to provide gifted and talented students unique educational opportunities worldwide. Dr. Sommer is a co-founder and board member of AI4ALL.

James Beck
AI4ALL Board Member, NewView Capital
James Beck is the Chief Operating Officer of NewView Capital. James’ leadership qualities, problem-solving skills, and management expertise ensures success to execute his responsibilities at NewView Capital and beyond. He thrives when faced with the challenges of investing and navigating through an ever-changing business world. Building deep, long-lasting relationships and aligning multiple interests are two of his essential abilities. As a well-respected voice in the venture capital community with a unique background, he offers a valuable and rare perspective toward developing solutions to difficult problems in a variety of situations.
James enjoys being part of a world-class organization that constantly strives to evolve and transform. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer of Mayfield, a long-standing early-stage venture fund in Menlo Park, California. Before that, he was an audit manager for Arthur Andersen where his clients consisted of various Silicon Valley technology and service organizations. James is actively involved with the NVCA’s CFO Taskforce and the COO Forum. For 14 years, he served as a member of the board of trustees, treasurer, and corporate secretary with AnitaB.org – a nonprofit organization focused on the advancement of women in technology. James attended the Executive Program at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and holds a BS in Business from the University of the Pacific. He is a certified public accountant, certified management accountant, and chartered global management accountant.

Rab Govil
AI4ALL Board Member, NAEHAS
Rab Govil is the CEO and founder of Naehas, provider of a cloud-based platform used by some of the largest brands (Citibank, Comcast, Bank of America, Statefarm) to automate their marketing processes. He has also been an investor and founder in several companies in the marketing and software space. He also serves as President of PODi, a non-profit organization which is the largest worldwide community of companies focused on applications powered by digital print. He has an MS from Rochester Institute of Technology in Computational Imaging where he was a President’s scholar. Rab serves as a board member of AI4ALL.

Dr. Telle Whitney
AI4ALL Board Member
Telle Whitney is a senior executive leader, a recognized expert on diversity, and a true pioneer on the issue of women in technology. She has over 20 years of leadership experience, is a frequent speaker on diversity topics, and was named one of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Technology.
Telle served as CEO of the Anita Borg Institute from 2002 to September 2017, and co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference with Anita Borg in 1994. She transformed the Institute into a recognized world leader for women and technology.
The Grace Hopper Celebration–which attracted 500 attendees in 1994–has grown exponentially and was attended by over 18,000 women in 2017. In addition, the organization now partners with 70+ technology firms, including many of the world’s most recognized brands.
Prior to joining the Anita Borg Institute, Telle was VP of Engineering for Malleable Technologies, a start-up tech firm, where she led the creation and scale-up of the company’s engineering function and turned the founder’s initial idea into a reality.
Telle has been called “a pioneer for the promotion of women technologists” and “one of the most inspirational leaders I have ever known.” She has won numerous awards including the ACM distinguished service award and an honorary degree from CMU. She serves on multiple boards and advisory councils and frequently speaks on diversity topics. She is also the co-founder of the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT).
Telle holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Utah.

Naveen Agarwal
AI4ALL Advisor, NavDots, LLC

Hina Baloch
AI4ALL Advisor, GM

Lili Cheng
AI4ALL Advisor, Microsoft

Kay Firth-Butterfield
AI4ALL Advisor, World Economic Forum

Lili Gangas
AI4ALL Advisor, Kapor Center

Lan Guan
AI4ALL Advisor, Accenture

Daniel Guillory
AI4ALL Advisor, Dropbox

Jensen Huang
AI4ALL Advisor, NVIDIA

Thomas Kalil
AI4ALL Advisor, Schmidt Futures

Dr. Maria Klawe
AI4ALL Advisor, Harvey Mudd College

Daphne Luong
AI4ALL Advisor, Apple

Erin Madden
AI4ALL Advisor, Capital One

Kimberly Nevala
AI4ALL Advisor, SAS

Dami Osunsanya
AI4ALL Advisor, SoftBank Group

Kim Polese
AI4ALL Advisor, CrowdSmart

Rodney Sampson
AI4ALL Advisor, OHUB

Kunal Sawarkar
AI4ALL Advisor, IBM

Yoav Schlesinger
AI4ALL Advisor, Salesforce

Ashley Still
AI4ALL Advisor, Adobe

Jeff Wong
AI4ALL Advisor, EY

Laurie Yoler
AI4ALL Advisor, Playground Global
University Site Leadership
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Atlanta University Center Consortium
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Atlanta University Center Consortium
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Atlanta University Center Consortium
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Miami Dade College
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New Mexico State University
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Texas A&M University
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University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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University of North Texas
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University of Texas at El Paso

Bettina Gardner
Atlanta University Center Consortium

Yvonne Phillips
Atlanta University Center Consortium

Dr. Talitha Washington
Atlanta University Center Consortium

Antonio Delgado
Miami Dade College

Enrico Pontelli
New Mexico State University

Paul Taele
Texas A&M University

Anupam Joshi
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Ting Xiao
University of North Texas
