Tess Posner is a social entrepreneur focused on increasing equity and inclusion in the tech economy. As Executive Director of AI4ALL, she is creating pathways for underrepresented K-12 students to chart a future in the artificial intelligence field, through education programs and peer, mentor, and professional supports.

Before joining AI4ALL, she was Managing Director of TechHire at Opportunity@Work, a national initiative launched out of the Obama White House to increase diversity and inclusion in the tech economy, where she oversaw the network of 72 cities, states and rural areas and 1300+ companies implementing the TechHire model.

Earlier in her career, Tess built and ran Samaschool, a nonprofit that equips low-income people to find work in the digital economy in a dozen diverse locations from New York City to rural Arkansas and East Africa. Tess’s work has been featured by Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Fast Company and funded by the Tipping Point Community, JPMorgan Chase, the California Endowment and the Robin Hood Foundation. She holds a master's degree from Columbia University School in Social Enterprise Administration and a bachelor’s in liberal arts from St. John’s College.