Founder of Caiafa AI. NYU Stern MBA. I make hard things learnable — for a team, a classroom, or a whole company.
I have dyspraxia. The way I learn is different from the way most classrooms teach, so from early on I had to find my own way in: more practice, more angles on the same problem, and more conversations. Where one explanation worked for the person next to me, I'd often need to hear it from three or four people and then rebuild it in language that made sense to me.
That became a method. What I carried out of school wasn't grades — it was a working knowledge of how understanding gets built: piece by piece, from several directions, starting from wherever the person really is.
It's the teacher I try to be. In a workshop I don't assume anything is obvious. I ask more than one person what's slowing them down, I name the pain point before the tool, and I check that it landed before moving on. And I build materials people can return to without me — because the version that finally makes sense is the one you can come back to.
Five stops, one thread: making something hard understandable for the people who have to use it.
Meditation helped me, so I turned it into a program and took it into local schools and community centers, including a summer of research with a gifted-and-talented after-school program. I also led a program bringing middle and high school students to Manhattan University for campus tours. That mindfulness work later became Excellency Mind.
Through the city’s Urban Fellows program I trained staff and helped implement New York City’s new procurement platform. It was the first time I saw clearly that the software is the easy part — the people are the work.
I started in financial reporting and analysis, moved into leading change management and communications for the Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout, then built and launched the AI Ambassador program for the AI Center of Excellence: a site and a set of offerings that teach people across the company how to use AI and how to build with it. I also architect and help implement AI solutions.
I completed my MBA at the Stern School of Business, Class of 2026, while working full-time. Through Stern’s Golub Capital Board Fellows program I served on a nonprofit board, which is where my sense of how mission-driven organizations run comes from. I’ve also worked with Stern’s Experiential Learning team.
Now I do for universities, nonprofits and businesses what I’ve done inside a Fortune 500 company and a city agency: lay the groundwork, teach the people, build the thing.