An educator, a student, and a researcher decided to build together.

She opened her first preschool in 2011 because she wanted her own children to start somewhere she trusted. She came to the United States at 18, earned a master's at Pratt, and has been building schools ever since. She is still in the hallways, so she knows what a new rule costs a teacher on a Monday morning.

She asked Congress for two things: AI classes in schools, and conduct codes that keep up with the tools students already carry. She testified to the House in March 2024 and the Senate Commerce Committee in November 2024, and backed New Jersey's deepfake law and the federal TAKE IT DOWN Act as a parent and a teacher. She runs actual schools, which keeps every good idea here close to what a building can really do.

She was 14 when she started asking her high school questions it did not have answers for, and she kept asking. A year later she was on TIME's list of the hundred most influential people in AI, and students in other states and other countries were writing to her about their own schools.

She has talked with lawmakers, school boards, and technology companies, testified to the Senate, and was a White House guest when the TAKE IT DOWN Act was signed. With Dorota she is writing K-8 lessons so younger students meet these tools as something they can get good at.

He cares about using AI to widen who gets to read hard things. With his classmate Rithvik Sabnekar, he built a tool that lets anyone ask Luciano Floridi's philosophy a question and get back an answer with the sources attached. Work that used to sit behind a graduate seminar is now something a curious sixteen-year-old can open on a Tuesday night.

He studies cognitive science at Yale, where he is a Director's Fellow at the Digital Ethics Center and the university's first Student AI Ambassador. His research was published in Minds and Machines in January 2026. That same instinct runs through LearnSphere: help people meet these tools as a way in, not a wall.