Confidence to use AI. The skills to stay safe from it. A real say in how it’s built.
Wise AI trains and coaches women peace leaders, in person and online, to put AI to work for human rights, democracy and peace in their communities. In return, their frontline expertise helps build better AI for everyone.
AI is being turned against the women working hardest for peace.
of the global AI workforce is women.1
women human rights defenders, activists and journalists have faced online violence connected to their work.3
of those cases involved AI-generated deepfakes.3
Even when women have AI tools, they use them less, and with less confidence, than men. The cause is structural bias, not ability.2
Literacy on its own doesn’t fix that. Women also need the skills to stay safe and a real seat where decisions about AI get made. Wise AI builds all three together.
The women leaders we trained knew AI was being weaponized against them, and they were afraid to use it. With trusted guidance and safe ways to practice, they started to see what it could do for their work.
Three things most AI programs teach separately.
Each cohort moves through three modules, with coaching along the way, so women leave able to use AI, protect themselves from it, and shape how it’s used.
Confidence
How AI works, how different platforms compare, and how to use them well.
Safety
Practical, preventive training to recognize and protect against AI-enabled threats, for women leaders and the organizations they run.
Agency
Support to build their own AI policies and frameworks, plus platforms for storytelling that lift up women’s leadership in AI and grow movements in their own communities.
An exchange, not extraction.
Women peace leaders often see harm coming before anyone else does. Wise AI graduates can choose to bring that expertise to AI developers, helping design the real-world scenarios used to test whether AI holds up for the people most affected by it.
Always opt-in
Helping test AI is a separate invitation, never a condition of the training.
Safety before disclosure
Anything drawn from a woman’s own experience goes through the same safety and ethics review the training teaches, and is anonymized when needed.
Credit and co-ownership
Women are credited as co-designers and co-own the scenarios built from their knowledge.
We measure what changes for each woman.
We use field-tested surveys before and after training, plus a seven-question SMS version for low-bandwidth settings. Answers are always anonymous and optional.
Part of how we work. Wise AI is how women leaders gain the literacy, confidence and agency to engage with AI, and how many of them go on to shape its design, testing and governance.
See our framework →Our team
Kat Fotovat
Co-Founder & President
Tambria Schroeder
Senior Director, Digital Safety & Strategic Initiative
Tazreen Hussain
Wise AI
Elizabeth Blakeslee
Intern
Michaela Sabbag
Intern
Bring Wise AI to your network.
We train women peace leaders in cohorts. If you lead a network, a fund or an AI lab and want to be part of it, let’s talk.
Sources
- World Economic Forum (2024), on women’s share of the AI workforce.
- Lean In (2026), on the gender gap in AI use.
- UN Women, “Tipping Point” (December 2025), on online violence against women in public life.