OURLEADERSHIP

Meet the students leading the charge in AI literacy — bridging the gap between complex technology and accessible education.

SAIL has no paid staff and no adult executive director. The board below sets direction, maintains the curriculum, keeps the books, and teaches workshops alongside every other volunteer. Chapter leads at each school run their own programming and bring what works back to the wider network.

We organize into small teams rather than a hierarchy. Curriculum keeps the workshop material current, which matters more in this subject than most — an example that landed a year ago may be obsolete now. Outreach books sessions and coordinates with schools and community organizations. Finance keeps the ledger and prepares reporting for the grants we depend on. Marketing handles how we present ourselves to students, schools, and funders.

Everyone here is a high school student doing this around coursework and everything else, which shapes how we work: small commitments that people can actually keep, and no single point of failure on any one person. If you want to be part of it, we have open roles on the marketing and finance teams, and we are always looking for new chapter leads.

The board also carries the parts of a nonprofit that are easy to overlook: filing with the state, maintaining our 501(c)(3) standing, keeping receipts against every expense, and answering to the funders whose grants pay for our materials. Learning to do that properly, at this age, is a large part of why the people below took these roles.