Dr. Andrea Kelli

Dr. Andrea Kelli is a keynote speaker, author, and researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human development. With decades of experience developing humans and a doctorate grounded in real classroom research, she brings a rare and refreshingly human perspective to the AI conversation. Her work on stages, in print, and online, challenges leaders, educators, and everyday people to ask not just what AI can do, but what it reveals about us.

As a Black mother who has personally navigated both the public and private school systems for her own children, Dr. Kellman writes from lived experience as much as professional expertise. Over three decades in the classroom, she watched what truly separates children who thrive from children left behind by the system, and it had very little to do with the building they walked into each morning.

She was the parent who needed this book, but it did not exist.

Now it does.