Digital Age Academy Inc.
Azadeh Keivani is a co-founder and executive director of Digital Age Academy, an online educational technology nonprofit focused on inclusive STEM education. Azadeh has held various prominent roles, including adjunct professor at Barnard College, consultant and advisor in data science at IQumulus®, and senior data scientist positions at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. With a strong background in astrophysics, Azadeh has contributed to research projects at institutions such as Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History, and Penn State University, where a postdoctoral fellowship was completed. Education includes a PhD in Physics from Louisiana State University and a BSc in Physics from Sharif University of Technology.
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Digital Age Academy Inc.
Digital Age Academy (DAA) is an educational technology initiative that prepares youth for the future of work by delivering online project-based digital and entrepreneurial development programs in technology-related and artificial intelligence-oriented fields. DAA programs are geared towards preparing creative, agentive, and flexible leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs through mastery of self-regulated learning and development. This is achieved through offering professional mentorship to groups of youth to identify, define and find solutions for problems in their community, potentially resulting in new businesses or startups. DAA operates in four different stages: Ideation, Project, Incubator, and Accelerator. Practical social and technical skills are implemented at each stage to prepare a skilled workforce for various technology sectors and to train future tech entrepreneurs and innovators. All stages are conducted under the mentorship of professionals from the respective industries with a one-on-one interaction.