Dylan Thomas Doyle, PhD
Founder & Executive Director
Dylan founded AI For All Tomorrows in 2025 to help change the AI narrative from the typical stories of hype and horror to new narratives of hope in the midst of huge socio-technical challenges. Dylan received his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder in Information Science and his Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary. He has worked as a user-experience researcher for top technology firms and a research fellow for Northwestern University and the University of Colorado Boulder. Before founding AI for All Tomorrows, Dylan was the co-host of the award-winning Radical AI Podcast. To support his interdisciplinary work, Dylan has received grants from OpenAI, the Patrick J McGovern Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.
Kira Warren
Brand Designer and Social Media Coordinator
Kira is an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado – Boulder. She is studying Creative Technology and Design through the College of Engineering and Applied Science while also pursuing an Engineering Management minor. At AI For All Tomorrows, Kira plans, creates, and develops all social media content and marketing, ensuring that AI For All Tomorrows can reach its audience.
When she’s not working on AI For All Tomorrows, Kira keeps busy with a range of creative projects. She’s the co-curator of TEDxCU, helping lead one of CU’s biggest events and bringing inspiring ideas to the stage. A proud Colorado native, she loves hiking in the mountains, singing in her a cappella group, and playing piano and guitar. Whether it’s through design, music, or storytelling, Kira is always exploring new ways to combine creativity and technology in whatever she’s working on.
Isabel Hirama
Futurist in Residence
Isabel is a data scientist and creative futurist with a focus on ethics of emerging technology and human flourishing. She was recently recognized by the UK government with the Tech Nation Global Talent endorsement for her leadership in inclusive AI, VR safety, and creator economy fairness. In addition to her work as a data scientist, Isabel’s varied background spans psychology and philosophy research focused on cross cultural moral metacognition, leading marketing for an Estonian future of work startup, and serving as a responsible tech mentor and expert reviewer for All Tech is Human, The Grace Hopper Conference, and ICML. Isabel’s themes for 2025 are collaborative creativity, compassionate curiosity, and knowledge and wisdom sharing. One of her core beliefs is that every individual has the power to bring the world towards a more flourishing future.
Rena Zhu
Research and Outreach
Rena is a final-year PhD candidate in Robotics at the Colorado School of Mines. Her research lies at the intersection of Cognitive Science, Augmented Reality technology, and human-robot communication design. She’s passionate about exploring how embodied technology can be deployed not only to increase productivity but also to enhance people's lives. More broadly, her work examines how the deployment of technology interacts with power dynamics in society. Rena is passionate about sharing accessible educational content that highlights both the cutting-edge technical aspects of technology and its thought-provoking socio-technical dimensions.
Will Liem
PhD Candidate, Northwestern University
Will is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences and Health at Northwestern University. His research focuses on understanding where AI fits into the exploration of sexual orientation and gender identity among LGBTQ+ teens, and co-designing a values-aligned system to safely navigate these questions with AI. Will brings prior experience consulting on responsible and participatory approaches to AI development with big tech clients. In their spare time, Will craves long urban walks (specifically hilly walks), dancing to tech house at music festivals, and adopting new frameworks for personal reflection (currently on astrology).
Maria Paola Silva
Manager, Policy and Advocacy, Center for Reproductive Rights
Paola is an economist with a Master’s in Public Policy from Universidad de los Andes and a Master’s in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She brings over ten years of experience advancing human rights, gender equity, and social policy across government, international cooperation, and academia. She has led initiatives at USAID and Colombia’s Congress, co-founded the feminist platform SietePolas, and helped shape public policies on care, political participation, and digital justice throughout Latin America. Paola is also a certified AI governance specialist and current Team Leader at the Center for AI and Digital Policy, where she explores how emerging technologies can be governed ethically and inclusively. In her spare time, she writes about the right to care, dances salsa in her living room, and builds spaces to imagine more collective futures.
Alexa Bejarano, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Virginia Tech
Alexa is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on human-robot interactions and compassion in STEM education, aiming to support and enhance student learning experiences through responsible technology design and human-centered pedagogy. Alexa earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Tulsa and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the Colorado School of Mines.
Alex Sarkissian
Co-founder, Buddhism & AI Initiative
Alex is a Buddhist chaplain, meditation teacher, and social entrepreneur passionate about contemplative practice as a pathway toward individual and collective transformation in the age of AI. He holds a Master of Divinity in Buddhism from Columbia University’s Union Theological Seminary, where his thesis assessed the potential impact of AI on the cultivation of virtue and human flourishing. Alex was previously a founder, CMO, and operator at various early-stage startups and a strategy and innovation consultant at Deloitte.