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"I am what I needed when I was in school."

Shana Sanders

Emmy Award Winner. Google AI Fellow. 2026 DoW STEM Ambassador. Nonprofit Founder. Building what was never built for us.
WHO IS SHANA

Building what was never built for us.

Shana Sanders is an Emmy Award winner, Google AI Fellow, 2026 DoW STEM Ambassador, and the Founder & CEO of We Create Tech, a nonprofit STEAM education organization that has reached more than 2,000 students across 20 states and 6 countries.

A former Title I classroom educator turned tech entrepreneur, Shana works where AI, education, culture, and opportunity meet.

Her work spans AI education, adaptive tech, and creative production, grounded in a simple belief: the kids who get overlooked are often the ones who change everything.

In 2025, Women in Technology named her Woman of the Year for Emerging Business.
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Work with Shana

Speak. Train. Advise.

Shana Sanders presenting TechRise to a room of students

Speak

Keynotes and conversations on AI, education, culture, and who gets access to opportunity.

Keynotes · Panels · Fireside chats · Moderating

Speaking topics
Shana Sanders leading an AI session at a podium

Train

Hands-on AI training built by a 15-year classroom educator, for teams doing real work.

AI for educators · AI for organizations · AI literacy

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Shana Sanders with Google partners at Explore AI for All in Omaha

Advise

Strategy for organizations working on AI adoption, education and workforce programs, and youth engagement.

AI strategy · Program design · Youth engagement

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The Opportunity Divide

We don’t have a talent problem. We have an opportunity problem.

Shana Sanders

Talent is everywhere. Opportunity is not. The Opportunity Divide is the distance between what someone is capable of and the chances they are actually given.

Technology

Who gets to learn by building, not just by watching.

AI

Who is taught to use it, shape it, and question it.

The rooms

Who is present when decisions about the future get made.

Press & recognition

Featured, recognized, and on stage.

Shana Sanders holding her 2025 Women in Technology Woman of the Year award
Next up

Panelist, Girls Meet Tech by You Go Girl

Kiewit Luminarium, Omaha · November 21, 2026 · Event details

On stage

  • Explore AI for All with GooglePresenter · Omaha · 2026
  • TEDxAtlanta Impact Night SalonSpeaker · Atlanta · 2026
  • BuildHER SummitPanelist · Fulton County IT · 2026
  • Google Data Center Community AI FellowsHost, opening session · 2026
  • Mandela Washington Fellowship PDEHost and moderator · IREX · 2025
  • Universal HERPanelist · Microsoft Atlanta · 2025

Fellowships

  • Google Data Center Community AI FellowGoogle and the Watson Institute
  • Milestone Leadership Development ProgramWatson Institute, sponsored by Google
  • 2026 DoW STEM AmbassadorTGR Foundation and U.S. Department of War
  • Fundable Founders Learning LabBlack Ambition · 2026

Recognition

  • Emmy Award winner
  • 2025 Woman of the YearSmall and Emerging Business · Women in Technology
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We Create Tech

We Create Tech exists to close the opportunity divide in STEAM. We build a comprehensive ecosystem of hands-on programs, industry advisors, and community-driven career pathways that meets students where they are and takes them where they are going.

From weekly lab sessions and summer camps to certification platforms and adaptive tech design, we don't just teach students about technology. We build the conditions for them to create it, own it, and build careers and ventures from it.

This work is personal. It started in a classroom. And it is far from finished.

SUPPORT WE CREATE TECH.
We Create Tech students in a VR class at Plywood
Building in VRStudents navigate a 3D space during a We Create Tech VR class at Plywood, National STEM Day 2025. Photo: Miguel Martinez, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
2,000+Students
20States
6Countries

Universal HER: the experienceAn event recap with student testimonials, hands-on experiences, and community impact at Microsoft Atlanta.

The newsletter

Cultivating Digitally

Essays and field notes from Shana Sanders on AI, education, culture, and the Opportunity Divide.

Book Shana

Bring Shana Sanders to your stage, your team, or your next big idea.

Keynotes, panels, AI training, and advising. Share your event details and budget range, and Shana’s team follows up within three business days.