Alex Kotran co-founded aiEDU in 2019 after he discovered that the Akron Public Schools, where his mom has taught for 30+ years, did not offer any courses or learning about AI. Alex began his career as a community organizer, working on President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, and as an appointee under HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell where he managed state-level outreach for the Affordable Care Act. Alex has a over decade of experience in the AI space. In 2015 he joined Opower, the first companies to use machine learning to help utility companies reduce energy demand. In 2018, he was hired to launch the social impact arm of H5, a company that pioneered the use of language models in the legal sector. At H5, Alex built a global judicial training program with the National Judicial College, and organized dozens of AI Governance summits with organizations including UNESCO, Stanford Law, NYU Law, and the European Commission. Alex is a second-generation immigrant from Akron, Ohio. He studied political science and government at Ohio State University.