Joan Ai is a mission-driven social impact and digital purpose evangelist and entrepreneur at the nexus of corporate social responsibility (CSR), innovation and technology, with a focus on the social implications of technological change seeking to leave no one behind in the digital divide. She is the co-founder of Blanchard House Institute and the Black Wall Street Trail and the Seminole Maroon Freedom Trail.
Ai provides global institutions with strategic counsel and targeted solutions for building long-term partnerships and for leveraging emerging technologies to meet competitive corporate social goals and achieve stakeholder purpose, equality, scale and sustainability. Ai is adept at convening and mobilizing high-level executives in the corporate and start-up ecosystems as well as civic, academic, and community leaders by designing and directing narratives across various industries for public-private-philanthropic partnerships to promote interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder collaboration to effectively address the most pressing global challenges. She has driven global initiatives for leading institutions including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, NYU Steinhardt EdTech Incubator, World Economic Forum (seconded by DQ Institute), World Childhood Foundation, Schmidt Futures, and Comic Relief US. Ai was a co-chair of the Ethically Aligned Design for Parenting Committee of The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and serves on a task force to develop an alumni community for Fellows of the World Economic Forum.
Ai is a graduate of Dartmouth College. She proudly celebrates her Shanghainese heritage.