Mychal Shaw - serial founder, self-taught AI engineer, and culture-driven strategist in Kansas City. Seven products built solo, from a proprietary civic AI model to a parish CRM, each one built for a community an existing system left out.
Read the full story"I build the infrastructure people deserve - but were never given."
How AI can close the gap between policy complexity and community participation - and why the technology only works when it's built by people who live with the consequences of the policies it explains. The non-partisan AI future of democratic engagement.
Why the best builders in the next decade won't come from the CS pipeline - and what happens when someone who came from culture, not code, designs the infrastructure that communities actually need. A case for radical inclusion in technical spaces.
What 9 years of community organizing, event production, and brand strategy taught me about product design - and why cultural fluency is the most undervalued skill in the tech industry. The methodology behind building for communities, not at them.
The philosophy behind the Black Innovators Network - and why inverting the typical transactional model of professional communities produces stronger networks, better companies, and more equitable outcomes. Inspired by Black Wall Street. Built for 2026.
The workers who will thrive in the AI era aren't the ones who fear the technology - they're the ones who learn to direct it. Why conscious investment in AI literacy, especially in communities historically excluded from technical spaces, is the most important workforce policy of the decade.
Why the next wave of American civic and cultural innovation isn't coming from Silicon Valley or New York - and how one city is quietly building the blueprint for what happens when code, culture, community, and innovation converge in service of the people who live there.
Interactive tools, prompt packs, and printable frameworks for founders, creators, and civic innovators moving faster with AI.
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myke@uwazi.ai
Kansas City, MO
Marketing strategist. AI engineer. Civic tech partner. Keynote speaker. I operate at the intersection of all four.
