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Kwaku Aning (he/him)

Chief Growth Strategist

Kwaku’s Superpowers:

  • Facilitating Connection & Partnerships (People, Organizations, Ideas)

  • Program Ideation & Design

  • Futures Thinking

Kwaku Aning is an educator, a professional wonder(er), and a connector looking to connect the dots between education, tech, art, agency, and the stuff that he has yet to understand.

He has had the privilege to work in various roles within education, technology, and impact over the past 24 years, within education in addition to various corporate and non-profit consulting engagements. At the root of all of these roles was the need to connect people, organizations, ideas, and opportunities. Examples of this include organizing and facilitating an education conference based upon student-created work within Virtual Reality, curating and facilitating dinner gatherings alongside conferences like SXSW and ASU/GSV, and working with nonprofits to connect them to funding within corporate and foundation spaces.

Brands and organizations that Kwaku previously collaborated with include Sony, Meta, HTC Vive, Teach for America, and UNDP.

In his current role, he combines all of the experiences and skill sets that he has learned to facilitate purposeful program creation within tech, impact, and education spaces.