Outside of work you will find her at local famers markets or hiking one of the many glorious Bay Area trails! Paul joined Khan Academy in to lead DevOps and to ensure that the site runs really well and learners can count on it being available to them. Prior to Khan Academy, Paul lead the building of many Enterprise applications and managed Cloud initiatives and technology at companies such as Intuit and Novell. When not working with computers he pursues his passion of Squash, Windsurfing and flying Paramotors.
Mita is excited to join the engineering team at Khan Academy where she will focus on tools, infrastructure, automation and quality. Mita is passionate about education and in her spare time likes to teach young children to code. Mita loves to cook only gourmet and preferably desserts!
Carina is a program manager for Khan Academy in Brazil and she is enthusiastic about social transformation through education. She was a teacher for 11 years and although she misses being in classrooms, she's happy to bring quality education in scale to Brazilian classrooms.
He's been building software of one sort or another for over 20 years. When he's not reading about the latest trends in computing he spends his time with his wife, snowboarding, or running. Vidhi manages all things marketing and partnerships for India. With her masters in Marketing, she is intrigued by human psychology and what wires us to make the choices we do. When not busy making a dent in the education landscape, she loves to spend her time reading, binge-watching shows, and feeding her creative appetite by learning new art forms.
Ghis dreams that all Peruvian students use Khan Academy to access a better world-class education. Therefore, she works building alliances with the public and private sector, encouraging schools to use the platform as a useful tool for teachers.
Anthony helps users across the world can find the free educational content on Khan Academy from search engines. Before arriving at Khan Academy, he spent time doing e-commerce SEO and consulting for a wide range of clients.
Playing Nintendo, family board game night, watching a Vikings game or heading to the lake cabin are pretty typical plans for a weekend. Amanda believes that education is the key to a better future. She loves Khan Academy and is excited about bringing this high-quality content to the world. She leads the international teams responsible for content localization and local content creation. Amanda has been working in Education for over 10 years. She has experienced many different roles, from educational franchise manager to teacher trainer, as well as being a mentor for teachers and school coordinators.
Mark has always enjoyed learning, teaching and empowering others. Mark is the creator of Factory Boy, a popular testing framework for Python, and has been published by the American Institute of Physics. Miguel loves solving problems and writing software while listening to music. He also loves contributing to Open Source and spends a good amount of time trying to improve the JavaScript landscape. When he is not writing code he is probably building or flying drones, BBQing, or watching Netflix.
Elle is a digital marketer with over 10 years of experience in web development, SEM, SEO, email and social media marketing. She also dabbles in product marketing and data analytics at Khan Academy. Outside of work, she's a gardener, conservation advocate, and an aspiring outdoor adventurist.
Elle loves nature. Neha loves to learn new things and teach everyone. When she is not nerding out on her laptop, she can be found reading, or baking or gardening. Jordan knows that people want to change the world. She heads up Community Giving so that more people can be part of our collective effort to provide a world class education for anyone, anywhere.
Prior to joining Khan Academy she was saving the world in a variety of ways and roles at The Nature Conservancy. She also has faint memories of years in public relations and communications for technology companies.
Anna is proud to work with a community of international volunteers and nonprofit organizations who translate and localize educational content to accelerate Khan Academy's mission of a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
Prior to joining Khan Academy, Anna held various product, program, and operations roles in the human rights, environmental, and global literacy programs at Benetech, and software consulting and data analysis roles at Manugistics. Anna received a B. When not working, Anna enjoys many types of music and dance, and spending time near the ocean whenever possible! Adam enjoys making software bigger and faster. After working at Google and Microsoft, he's excited to help change the way eductation is delivered.
Before joining Khan Academy, Corey helped hundreds of students to improve their standardized test scores. He is very humbled by the fact that, through his work here at Khan, that number is now in the millions. Russell believes that good software can change lives. He strives to make his work fun to use and accessible to all. When not coding, he likes to go on trips and take many out of focus pictures. Juan works on the Frontend infrastructure team. Passionate about Design systems, tooling and web performance.
When not coding, he likes biking, playing soccer and hanging out with his family. Prior to Khan Academy, she has served as an Executive Assistant in the higher education sector for 8 years where she honed her skills in operations and event management, cross-departmental coordination, and helped in building organizational culture. In her free time, she likes to study culture as a concept and how it encompasses the range of human phenomena that cannot be attributed to genetic inheritance.
They are pleased as punch to be able to give back to this community. Sarah believes in lifelong learning. She is thrilled to continue supporting education through attention to detail in quality engineering at Khan Academy. Sarah enjoys hiking, reading all the exhibit signs in museums, singing, and playing cooperative survival crafting computer games. Karla believes in the power of education to change lives.
At Khan Academy she is able to partner with supporters who share that belief to help secure the funding that enables a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Prior to joining Khan Academy, Karla spent time in college access and teaching. Alexis started making websites during the Flash and guestbook craze of the early 's and hasn't stopped since. In spite of those trying beginnings, today they focus on development to make the web and world a better place.
In the off hours, they enjoy Broadway shows, reading, and playing games of both the board and video variety. Warren is a multidisciplinary designer, artist, and tinkerer.
He loves building things, tending to rare succulents, and spending time with his family. Before joining Khan Academy, he helped lead design on projects at Vox Media, co-founded a non-profit newspaper, and built a civic startup called City2. Kat believes in education as a means to a better world. After earning her B. Having both taught in the classroom and worked in textbook publishing, she's delighted to be part of Khan's effort to bring innovative learning to students around the world.
Kat also believes travel is a means to a broader education and frequently embarks on trips with her family, who occupy the other half of her time! Lilli is a Senior Software Engineer, maker, and artist.
In her free time, she's often playing on her phone, making something new, or taking her art installations on tour around the west coast and the world. Outside work, he ponders about why his two kids are unbearably adorable, and whether he is biased or not? She helps ensure the design quality of the artwork and content going into the Khan Academy Kids app.
She is passionate about working on a mission-driven team to help create a free, fun, and educational experience for kids around the world. When she's not making gifs of the Khan Academy Kids characters, she enjoys film photography, petting cats, and short walks to a coffee shop.
Jason is a full-stack web developer working on the learning platform team at Khan Academy. Before joining he spent his time building websites and mobile apps for Mobify and TripAdvisor.
When he's not at his computer he can be found in the great outdoors rock climbing, skiing, or hiking. Boris is a python developer on the infrastructure team. Passionate about education, he also teaches at a coding bootcamp in Vancouver, Canada. When he's not coding, he spends time bike touring, rock climbing, exploring new documentaries, and playing bad music to experiment with his audience.
Hung has more than 17 years of experience in software quality assurance. Passionate and dedicated to releasing quality products, he is super excited to be part of Khan Academy and help give back to the community. Outside of work, Hung enjoys spending time with his first baby boy and family,,followed by running, cycling and sipping on a cup of Philz coffee.
Susan loves working with others to turn visions into reality. Before joining Khan Academy, Susan helped shape new product concepts and technologies at Amazon. Outside of work, she enjoys running local trails, hiking near the coast, consuming poetry, and editing photos on her smartphone.
She believes in the future. She wishes you well. Passionate about people, education and technology she always seeks to unite these passions and at Khan Academy this is possible. She has been working in Education as a teacher for over 15 years and with teacher training and capacity building since Outside of work Dan seeks adventure and learning. He enjoys hiking, camping, traveling and photography.
Responsible for development of data-driven campaigns and cross-channel strategies paid, social, email and PR focused in bring and engage users to our platform. A first-generation college graduate, Sandi holds a masters degree in accounting from North Carolina State University and a certificate in nonprofit management from Duke University. Nada is passionate about education since she was TAing for computer science classes during college.
After completing her internship at Khan Academy, Nada was eager to continue working with an incredible team that wants to provide free, world-class education to everyone, everywhere. Jason joined Khan Academy in and loves working with talented, fun people solving important problems that have positive impact for customers. Jason built Intuit's QuickBooks, has experience building startups and recently lead front-end engineering at Financial Engines.
Away from work you can find Jason playing tennis, golf, ultimate frisbee, and hanging out with his family. Adam has taught science to high school students and teachers in Cameroon, to college students at Colgate University, and to students all over the world as a curriculum designer and manager at IXL Learning. He earned his Masters degree while studying how DNA methylation affects the structure and function of chromatin, and his Doctoral degree while investigating the ecological and genetic consequences of polyploidy in flowering plants.
Lauren is a scientist-turned-educator who is excited to be creating chemistry content at Khan Academy! Before coming to Khan, Lauren was a curriculum designer at IXL, where she developed fun and engaging science lessons for middle school. Lauren holds a PhD in chemistry from Caltech. In her spare time, Lauren loves to travel 40 countries and counting! Robert is a software quality engineer with over 4 years of experience. Robert works with android, iOS and PC software and hardware.
He loves learning, is analytical, focused, and organized. When he is not working he loves spending time with his wife and son and playing obscure video games. Joe manages day-to-day office operations at Khan Academy including vendor management, events and real estate needs. Away from the office he enjoys time with family, music, hobbies and yearly trips to his favorite beaches. Fan of breakfast burritos and proud minivan driver.
She received her B. Before joining the Khan team, Kami was a teacher and instructional coach in the elementary grades in Colorado and Philadelphia.
Kami enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, and chasing around her daughter. Allison is part of the small but mighty team working to create ELA content. Before coming to Khan, Allison was a reading teacher, a literacy specialist, a librarian, and a literacy coach. Kathy is excited to work at a place that is re-imagining education. Ruslan is an automation engineer in the Quality Engineering team. Passionate about machine learning, blockchain and web developing. Matt has a lifelong passion for learning and education.
His last gig before Khan Academy was at Ithaka, a not for profit serving academic institutions and researchers. Megan is a science content creator at Khan Academy, specializing in biology. She has a PhD from UC Berkeley where she studied the molecular mechanisms by which bacteria cause diseases in plants.
Megan loves thinking about how best to teach biology concepts, and is excited to help learners discover a passion for science through her work at Khan Academy. She manages daily operations, snack stocking, and office organization.
Aimee is a former Pre-K teacher and loves being on a team that's committed to equalizing educational opportunities for our youngest learners. Aimee enjoys reading, cooking, and taking her dogs to the park. She is originally from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Angelo is a frontend focused engineer that is passionate about delivering awesome products that truly benefit users. Outside of the office, you may find Angelo transmitting on Amateur Radio frequencies KK6LDH, letting magic smoke out of electronics, futzing with his cars, or off in the mountains camping. Adam is a software developer with a passion for building useful and understandable user experiences. Aviv works on strengthening, elevating and celebrating our community of practice through our Khan Academy Ambassador Program and Teach With Khan educator communities.
Given her background teaching and coaching in the NYC school system, Aviv especially enjoys partnering with Khan educators to develop resources for differentiating instruction, engaging students, and driving both teacher and student ownership around learning and growth mindset. When not in conversation with teachers, Aviv can be found on a yoga mat, running in the park, or reading. As the daughter of a mad scientist, Six feels it's her mission to bring order to chaos while spreading fun.
A long time Silicon Valley veteran, she's worked at diverse companies from Apple to Napster. In her spare time, Six enjoys writing science fiction, making video games, and writing short autobiographies in the third person.
Liz is a backend developer with previous experience working on large scale products at AWS. She's passionate about learning and excited to join the Learning Platform team at Khan Academy. In her spare time Liz does search and rescue with King County, paints, and attempts to keep up with her massive backlog of books to read.
He loves to play sports like basketball, volleyball, and squash in his free time. Carolina is excited to work on the Portuguese course in order to help Brazilian students increase their knowledge and gain confidence. Prior to joining Khan Academy, she spent 8 years working as a textbook editor and author. Carolina is grateful for all of the educational opportunities she has had and wishes to help provide better educational opportunities to as many people as possible. Irene is a designer on the Marketing, Product and Philanthropy team.
Prior to this, she worked on scaling Khan Academy, and in between, she did a stint at grad school. For this, she has been crowned a Khan Academy Boomerang. Achievement unlocked! After receiving his M. Right before joining Khan Academy, he was the Director of Curriculum at Academic Approach, a tutoring and test prep company in Chicago.
When he is not developing test prep content, Duo serves as board member and treasurer of the audio drama nonprofit HartLife NFP, cooks for humans and sometimes cats, and tries to be low-key entertaining in life. He loves precise measurements and other people's secrets, and he probably likes you.
Cat has a degree in Psychology, and taught ESL in South Korea and worked in Special Education before beginning to study software engineering as a hobby. Working at Khan Academy allows her to develop her passion for software and continuous learning while still giving back to students. Michael Chanover is the vice president of design. Prior to joining Khan Academy, Michael served as the vice president of design and user experience at NerdWallet, where he led a team of designers, researchers, and writers across product design, research, and brand toward solutions that enabled consumers to make financial decisions with confidence.
Michael also previously served as vice president of design at Shopkick, a mobile loyalty platform; chief creative officer for Fingerprint, a gaming platform; and vice president of product for the Alsop-Louie portfolio company, Kidlandia.
Michael was the global creative director of web and brand at the educational toy company, LeapFrog Enterprises, where he led brand and user experience design. Michael spent four years in the San Francisco and New York offices of Frogdesign as executive producer and general manager.
Amy is a technical recruiter that loves all things food, cats, video games, and internet meme related. Sidnei has joined as Country Manager for Khan Academy Brazil to lead our local partnerships and programs and scale up our operation to reach increasingly more learners in the coming years.
Stephanie loves all things social media and online community. She leads the social team that brings out the joy for Khan Academy's virbant community of learners, teachers, and parents. She gets to tell stories for her day job. Reads stories for leisure. Finds stories by exploring with her husband and their big, floofy dog. Dave is a backend engineer working on the infrastructure team. He's an advocate of high quality comprehensive code.
In his free time, you can usually find Dave playing with his kids, reading a book, watching a movie, playing video games, or cooking. Possibly all at the same time. Steve is a full stack developer working on the districts and rostering team. He brings an infectious enthusiasm, a commitment to continual learning, an empathic orientation, and a breadth of technical experience.
He strives to make a safe, accessible environment, where everyone is appreciated for their contributions and can reach their full potential. Since building software is an inherently communicative art, he strongly believes sprinkling in bad puns makes for better software [citation needed]. Carolina holds a B. She has worked in localization for over a decade and she's been interested in education her entire life. Starting her career as a translator, moving into project management and localization, she now works at Khan Academy managing our Spanish localization program, ensuring our content reaches learners all over the world!
Outside of work, Caro enjoys spending time with family including her two cats, Oliver and Nene, and her dog, Milla , traveling, hiking and cooking. Dave is a web developer who enjoys solving complex problems and working with smart, passionate people to get the job done. When not working, Dave enjoys board games, DIY projects, and spending time with his wife and two kids.
Amri leads the philanthropy function in Khan Academy India. She's a huge advocate for the incredible potential that is possible in the country, and can't wait to see the fundamental shift that KAI will create. Amri also had her own education start-up for ten years, being one of the first organizations to introduce soft skills into the Indian school curriculum. Outside of work, Amri loves to read, bike, and constantly has a running to-do list for every part of her life!
Ioana works on the security team, helping to keep Khan Academy's learners safe. She first interned at Khan Academy in , then came back for another internship the following summer, and finally joined full-time in ! Outside of work, you'll probably find her either baking or eating baked goods. Tony is a web engineer on the Learning Platform team. And the third place goes to Susan Jones, primarily for the inclusion of talking robots. Was it too much to ask, people? Talking robots? Could I have made it more clear that we wanted talking robots?
She also has a great evaluation of a Khan video on exponents, a neat alternative presentation, and she used this as a project to teach herself animation. In the spirit of all great learners, she submitted four drafts of the same video as the contest went on. To all the Khan-test entrants, thanks for your contributions to the public dialogue, and I would encourage everyone to view all of the videos some fall afternoon while you are avoiding grading a stack of papers.
Special mentions go out to Gary Rubenstien for having the most entries, Rhett Allain for provoking the most vitriolic reaction, and to John Golden and David Coffey for putting some junk on the Internet that started a summer of very productive conversation. The future solutions we need will be nuanced and contextual. This is not the last time educators will need to push back on the media in the ed-tech space and ask for some deeper conversations.
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All Topics. And then Justin Reich and Dan Meyer announced a prize for the best video commentary on a Khan Academy video , called the mtt2k prize. Anyway, the winners were announced a couple of weeks ago. All this optimism and harmony is wearing me out. Thanks for covering this.
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