Mhraf discusses (1:04) growing up in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa; then attending Trinity College in Connecticut in the U.S., (1:34) studying Economics and International Relations with a concentration in African Studies at Trinity College, (2:43) attending African Leadership Academy in South Africa with a tight-knit group of 100 students for two years, (12:47) working in education for 8 years, (13:43) heading sales and partnerships at Chatac, (15:40) moving back to Africa, (17:03) bringing over her network of educators to Chatac, (17:44) working together with her team of 8 people at Chatac, (19:25) serving almost 40,000 learners to lower-connectivity areas such as Afghanistan through Sola X, (20:34) allowing learning to happen on WhatsApp through AI, (23:20) working with a wide age group range and deploying learning in local languages and local contexts through AI, (26:04) scouting mission-aligned organizations in remote areas who are online, (27:54) training teachers in their pedagogy, (28:49) tapping into previous connections and talking to new connections to build a pipeline, (30:00) working to integrate Chatac into government entities, (32:00) attempting to build an intuitive platform on WhatsApp, (33:47) being wary of use cases for AI, (35:25) the role of AI in society and necessary protocol, (38:00) designing Chatac's AI around the 7 vectors of learning in the U.S, and (39:18) the importance of the human element in education.

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