Erin Mote

Erin Mote

Erin Mote is the CEO and Founder of InnovateEDU, a “house of brands” housing the EdSafe AI Alliance (safe and accountable AI in education), Project Unicorn (data interoperability), Educating All Learners Alliance (175+ partners supporting students with disabilities), and the Partnership for Student Success (250+ organizations). Through these alliances, her work touches thousands of school districts and over 3,000 partners nationwide.

Erin co-founded Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School with Dr. Eric Tucker and served as Founding Chief of Party for USAID’s $19.5 million Global Broadband and Innovations Alliance. She pioneered National AI Literacy Day, now in its third year with 140+ supporting organizations. An enterprise architect by training, she describes herself as pushing Claude Opus “to the absolute limit” for coding and full-stack development.

What if the data that matters most isn’t grades or test scores, but the messy, beautiful process of how students actually learn? Erin Mote, CEO of InnovateEDU, joins Brett and Rebecca for a timely conversation on National AI Literacy Day 2026. Erin founded the EdSafe AI Alliance and leads a network of educational partnerships touching […]