Program Team
Meet our Program Team! This team leads program administration, project management, and media.
GiGi Griffin
Program Coordinator, AI for Good Institute
GiGi is IT Project Manager with over 20 years of experience managing global teams, with the ability to build solid, effective relationships and lead strategic initiatives across cross-functional lines of business. She has a double-major BA in Computer Science and Economics from Mills College, an MS in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford and an MBA with a focus on Managing Innovation and Technolgy from Santa Clara University. Currently volunteering with Impact Genius as a Program Associate supporting the AI for Good Institute.
Nico Addai
Program Coordinator, AI for Good Institute, 2024
Compliance Officer, Gradient Health Inc - Duke University Incoming MBA Candidate
With experience as an Operations Program Manager, Nico Addai played a pivotal role in the growth of a medical AI startup from its early valuation at $6M to a nearly $20M over two years. She previously acted as a Research Consultant for MIT’s Scheller Teachers Education Program Lab.
She focuses her research on creating accessible AI projects for Make-a-thon, a three-day event designed for teachers and facilitators to generate activities that facilitate conversations around AI ethics and community action.
Nico worked on community-focused AI and Data Science projects that investigated strategies to combat racialized algorithmic bias in open-source skin image datasets. She also worked with MIT’s Data+Feminism Lab as a research assistant and created datasets used to investigate patterns of commemoration of people in the City of Cambridge.
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Nico has a passion for entrepreneurial pursuits and community development and management. She is currently pursuing her MBA at Duke University - The Fuqua School of Management.
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May Xu
Program Associate, Development, AI for Good Institute, 2024
May is currently ICF coach to support founder/entrepreneur/change maker's inner growth and transformation. May rides the tides of significant technology advancement of AI/Data field for the past 20 years in different industries and business functions. Her role includes AI technologist, Data Driven Business Operater, AI product owner/strategist and Startup COO, in transformative companies such as LinkedIn. May runs her own coaching firm and is committed to humanize AI technology & practice. She hold M.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford with thesis on information theory based pattern recognition.