Noelle RussellChief Executive Officer, AI Leadership Institute · 5x Microsoft Trustworthy AI MVP | 3.4+ million students | #1 Thought Leader in Agentic AI | AI-Powered Revenue Growth + Cost Optimization Expert ✨Best-Selling Author: Scaling Responsible AI | TEDx Sp

Empowering Girls in AI #shorts

17 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this YouTube Short, the speaker shares her experience mentoring young girls in technology, describing programs that teach bot‑building and programming mindsets. She highlights the joy of seeing girls master skills that once took her years to learn. The narrative then shifts to her time at Amazon Alexa in 2013, where she was the sole woman, Latina, and mother on her team. While her colleagues dismissed her idea to create mindfulness skills as “silly,” she persisted, emphasizing the importance of thinking beyond conventional workout or recipe apps. The clip underscores themes of empowerment, representation, and challenging industry norms to bring innovative, wellness‑focused AI experiences.

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program for young girls. You probably have something similar in Australia, like Pathfinders in Canada, but they go through these progressions as young girls learning these skills, and it's very diverse. So I teach a lot of the bot building, thinking like a programmer, those types of badges. But one thing that inspires me is watching these young people do the things that it took me a very long time to do very easily. And how, like, I feel like I'm pretty, like, cutting edge. I've, I've thought outside the box. I remember at Amazon Alexa, I wanted to build mindfulness skills and everyone on my team— granted, I was the only woman and the only Latina, the only mom— but they were like, who needs mindfulness? Like, that's a silly thing. And this was in 2013, so nobody really knew what was silly, but they definitely had in their mind predefined a box that you should play in. And I was like, well, I don't want to build a workout app or a recipe app. I want to build a mindfulness app.