Dan Be Kim

Dan Be Kim is a startup founder turned educational technologist, committed to reimagining how we teach and learn in the age of AI. Her current work centers on designing human-centered AI literacy programming for educators and learners. As a third culture kid with a multicultural upbringing, she approaches her work through a global lens by partnering with schools and institutions across K-12 and higher education in various parts of the world, including North America, Europe, India, and Northeast Asia.

As an AI Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she facilitated the onboarding of the incoming cohort of graduate students, providing practical support about how to use AI responsibly and effectively in their academic and professional endeavors.

She is currently a member of the UNESCO Global Science of Learning Alliance and the Global Science of Learning Education Network (GSoLEN) at UC San Diego, where she advocates for the conscious and equitable design of educational technologies informed by the Science of Learning.

Before Harvard, Dan Be lived in the fast-moving world of startups. She co-founded and launched several ventures, including a VC-backed two-sided marketplace in the Bay Area and a community-driven local marketplace in South Korea funded by the National Research Foundation. Earlier in her journey, she had the joy of working with creatives in the Korean entertainment industry, where she learned the power of storytelling to spread ideas in captivating and radical ways.

Dan Be spent most of her formative years in Auroville, an international township in South India grounded in the spiritual ideology of Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa. It was there that she learned to hold space for duality, embrace plurality, and see difference as a strength rather than a source of division. Auroville’s ethos of unity in diversity continues to guide her work and shape her worldview.

As seen in the photo above, Dan Be is known for communicating in dual mode — through words and endless hand gestures. She likes to think she teaches not just with her voice, but with her whole body in motion.