BOARD OFADVISORS
Educators and engineers who advise our student board — without taking the organization out of students' hands.
SAIL is run entirely by high school students. Our advisors are the adults we go to when we need experience we have not had time to accumulate — and they are advisors rather than directors on purpose.
Our advisors
Education Advisor
Margo Fisher-Bellman
Librarian, Walnut Hills High School
A 25-year veteran teacher and National Board Certified ELA 7–12 librarian at Walnut Hills High School, where SAIL's founding chapter is based. In 2026 she was selected as one of eight educators nationally for the Pulitzer Center's Information & Artificial Intelligence Teacher Advisory Council, and led students in drafting an AI policy for their school rooted in transparency and ethical use. She advises SAIL on what actually works in a classroom — and what a district will approve.
bellmam@cpsboe.k12.oh.us
President of the Board of Advisors
Manish Khandelwal
GE90 Systems Leader, Service Engineering at GE Aerospace
A systems engineering leader at GE Aerospace, where he leads service engineering for the GE90 engine program. He advises SAIL on the technical accuracy of what we teach, and on how complex engineered systems are actually built, tested, and held accountable in industry.
manish.khandelwal@studentsforailiteracy.orgHow it works
What an advisor does at a student-run nonprofit
The near-peer model only works if students actually run the organization. Our advisory structure is built to keep it that way.
They advise, students decide
Advisors have no vote and no veto. The student board sets direction and owns every decision; advisors tell us when we are about to make an avoidable mistake.
Curriculum review
Before material reaches a classroom, someone who teaches for a living and someone who builds systems for a living have both read it.
Institutional doors
Schools and districts have processes a high schooler has no reason to know. Our advisors have navigated them before.
Continuity
Every student on our board graduates. Advisors carry context across those handovers, so each year does not start from zero.
If you work in education, AI, or nonprofit governance and would consider advising a student board, email samarth.khandelwal@studentsforailiteracy.org. You can also meet the students who run SAIL or read about the organization.
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