Educator, technologist, advocate.

Charlotte Dungan has spent her career at the intersection of education and technology. She began as a software engineer, then earned a Master's in Education from Harvard University, where her research focused on how to support the teachers who teach computer science.

Since then she has led statewide and national initiatives that bring computer science and AI into K–12 classrooms in meaningful, equitable ways — from rural elementary schools to specialized STEM high schools to industry-hosted bootcamps.

Her work spans national standards, statewide policy, classroom curriculum, and teacher development. She has contributed to AI4K12, CSTA, Cyber.org, North Carolina's Computer Science Standards, and is an INSPIRE CS-AI Fellow at MIT's Teaching Systems Lab. She also serves on her local school board.

Charlotte writes and speaks about what it actually takes to teach AI well: holistic, human-centered approaches that prepare young people not just to use AI tools, but to question them, build with them, and live well alongside them.