Fall 2023 Brown Bag Series: “Unleashing Minds: Nurturing Computational Thinkers for an AI-Powered Future”

Join the Fall 2023 Brown Bag Series hosted by the Educational Psychology and Educational Technology Program.

Located in 133F Erickson Hall

Speaker:

Amber Oliver is Managing Director of the Robin Hood Learning + Technology Fund, a collaboration between Robin Hood, Overdeck Family Foundation and Siegel Family Endowment to transform learn-ing for low income students with technology. Previously, Amber was the COO of GripTape, where she helped build a strategy to put 1M youth in the driver’s seat of their own learning. Amber also served as the VP of Globaloria, now Proto and part of Carnegie Learning, which helped thousands of students become knowledge-producers as they learned to design and code their own educational games. Amber has also held positions at UNICEF, the United Nations Secretariat, The World Bank, the Economist Intelligence Unit, and led efforts in Bangladesh, France, India, Niger and Senegal. She holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree from Brown University.