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In high school, she traveled to El Salvador to build houses with Habitat for Humanity following an earthquake. Posner holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Mathematics from Saint John’s College and a Master’s degree from Columbia University in Social Enterprise Administration.[6]Social entrepreneurship[edit]Early in her career, Posner built and ran Samsa School, a non-profit organization providing low-income people worldwide with tools and education to find work in the digital economy. Then, she became the managing director of TechHire at Opportunity@Work, a White House initiative that sought to increase diversity in the technology industry.[7] In 2016, Posner was selected as a fellow at the Institute for the Future.[8]Posner then joined non-profit organization AI4ALL as their CEO and executive director.[9][10] AI4ALL provides AI education and mentorship particularly towards historically underrepresented talent.[2][11][4] In the years she served as CEO, AI4ALL saw over 15,000 young people participate in the organization’s AI education and mentorship programs.[12] Posner has spoken at SXSW, Grace Hopper Celebration, Nvidia GPU Technology Conference, and further conferences about artificial intelligence and technology diversity and outreach.[13][14][15]She is listed as a coauthor in Vint Cerf and David Nordfors’s 2018 book The People Centered Economy: The New Ecosystem for Work.[16]In an online statement published in October 2021, Posner announced that she would step out of the role as CEO of AI4ALL into an advisory role to pursue her music career full-time.[3] Emily Reid took over her role at the start of 2022 as interim CEO.[17]Music[edit]Posner is also an alt-pop music artist. She released her first EP in 2018 and released new singles in 2020.[18][19]Selected awards and recognition[edit]2019 \u2013 VentureBeat Women in AI Award: Responsibility and Ethics Winner[20]2019 \u2013 Alconics Awards AI Innovator of the Year Finalist[21]2020 \u2013 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics Hall of Fame Honoree[5]References[edit]^ “AI Isn’t Good for Women \u2014 But We Can Fix It”. Teen Vogue. April 4, 2018. Retrieved January 21, 2022.{{cite web}}:  CS1 maint: url-status (link)^ a b Wong, Ashley. “Artificial intelligence has a racial bias problem. Google is funding summer camps to try to change that”. USA TODAY. Retrieved September 22, 2021.^ a b Team, AI4ALL (November 3, 2021). “Singing A New Song”. AI4ALL. Retrieved January 19, 2022.^ a b Smiley, Lauren (May 23, 2018). “The Future of AI Depends on High-School Girls”. The Atlantic. Retrieved January 19, 2022. They hired Tess Posner, who had led initiatives aimed at getting more diversity into the digital economy, to be the CEO.^ a b “Hall of Fame”. 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics\u2122. Retrieved July 22, 2021.^ “Tess Posner inspires and trains diverse AI talent”. Accelerate with Google. Retrieved January 19, 2022.^ “AI in Medicine: Inclusion & Equity”. Stanford University. Retrieved January 19, 2022.{{cite web}}:  CS1 maint: url-status (link)^ “IFTF: Tess Posner”. www.iftf.org. Retrieved September 17, 2021.^ Castellanos, Sara (August 10, 2020). “The Changes AI Will Bring”. Wall Street Journal. ISSN\u00a00099-9660. Retrieved January 19, 2022.^ “A Rare Tech Company Where Women Dominate”. Fortune. Retrieved September 22, 2021.^ Walch, Kathleen. “Concerns Of AI And Bias Insights from AI4ALL’s Tess Posner”. Forbes. Retrieved September 22, 2021.^ “Miami Dade College Partners with AI4ALL College Pathways Initiative to Prepare Students for Careers in Artificial Intelligence”. MDC News. Retrieved January 19, 2022.^ “Understanding the Human Side of Automation”. SXSW. Retrieved January 19, 2022.{{cite web}}:  CS1 maint: url-status (link)^ Lindeman, Laura (September 26, 2019). “10 Talks We Can’t Wait to Hear at the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration”. Medium. Retrieved January 19, 2022.^ Stewart, Louis (October 15, 2020). “At GTC, Leaders Focus on Equity in AI, Developer Diversity | NVIDIA Blog”. The Official NVIDIA Blog. Retrieved January 19, 2022.^ Cerf, Vint; Nordfors, David (2018). The People Centered Economy: The New Ecosystem for Work. ISBN\u00a0978-1729145920.^ Team, AI4ALL (December 14, 2021). “Emily Reid Named Interim CEO of AI4ALL”. AI4ALL. Retrieved January 21, 2022.^ “Interview: Tess Posner”. Tongue Tied Magazine. Retrieved September 19, 2021.^ FeaturesMusic\u00b7 (February 21, 2020). “Tess Posner Shines On Catchy New Single “Ocean”“. DN\u00fc. Retrieved January 19, 2022.^ “Winners of VentureBeat’s first Women in AI Awards announced at Transform 2019”. VentureBeat. July 12, 2019. Retrieved September 17, 2021.^ “AIconics Awards San Francisco 2019: Shortlist announced”. AI Business. Retrieved September 17, 2021.  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/tess-posner-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Tess Posner – Wikipedia"}}]}]