SHANA
DIGITAL

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

Shana Digital

Emmy Award Winner. Google AI Fellow. 2026 DoW STEM Ambassador. Nonprofit Founder. Building what was never built for us.
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The idea behind the work

Talent is everywhere. Opportunity is not.

After 15 years in Title I classrooms, I stopped believing the gap in tech is about ability. It is about who gets the tools, the people, and the rooms. I call it the Opportunity Divide: 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, and who is left to be shaped by it.
The rooms
Who is present when the decisions about the future get made.
WHO IS SHANA

Cultivating Digitally
living in Atlanta.

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 1,100 students across 20 states and 6 countries.

A former classroom educator turned tech entrepreneur, Shana builds at the intersection of technology, culture, and community.

Her work spans AI education, adaptive tech, creative production, and the firm belief that the kids who get overlooked are often the ones who change everything. In 2025, Women in Technology named her Woman of the Year in the Small/Emerging Business category.
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AI in Action

Presented by Shana Sanders as a Google AI Fellow at Explore AI for All with Google.

Omaha, Nebraska, 2026

Signature talks

On stage with Shana Sanders

We Don’t Have a Talent Problem. We Have an Opportunity Problem.

Why the tech gap was never about ability, and what it takes to close it.

Stop Preparing Students for the Future. Let Them Build It.

What happens when young people do real work for real audiences.

AI Isn’t the Opportunity If Everyone Can’t Access It.

AI literacy, workforce readiness, and who gets left behind.

"The gap in tech is not a talent problem. It has never been a talent problem. It is an
access problem.
That is what I fix."

Shana Sanders
Founder & CEO, We Create Tech, Inc.

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Proof

Featured, recognized, and on stage.

Featured in

  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  • NBC News
  • Fox News Digital
  • Rolling Out
  • GoDaddy
  • SCORE

Spoken at

  • GoogleExplore AI for All, Omaha
  • Universal HERMicrosoft Atlanta
  • Fulton County BuildHER Summit

Fellowships

Recognition

  • Emmy Award winner
  • 2025 Woman of the YearSmall and Emerging Business, Women in Technology
LEARN MORE about my NON-Profit

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.

Building in VR

We Create Tech students navigate a 3D space during a VR class at Plywood. The AJC called it “pioneering a culturally responsive VR education space.”

Atlanta, National STEM Day 2025. Photo: Miguel Martinez, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Where the ideas become programs

2,000+
Students reached
20
States
6
Countries

Universal HER | The Experience

An event recap featuring 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.

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