Marisol Jimenez is an educator and creative technologist working at the intersection of AI, youth wellbeing, and making. At TUMO, she teaches programming and leads design and making workshops for middle and high school students, bringing a hands-on, inquiry-driven approach that puts young people in the driver’s seat of their own creative and technical development. Alongside her teaching, she serves as Community Liaison, connecting TUMO’s work to the broader communities it serves. She is also a collaborator and youth facilitator with The Rithm Project, an initiative exploring how AI shapes social connection and wellbeing among young people.
With a background spanning design engineering, computer science, and AI ethics, she brings both technical depth and a belief that young people shouldn’t just be subjects of research — they should be co-creators of it. That conviction has carried her into some of the most prominent conversations happening in this space. She has presented on panels at EdTech Week in New York City and at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where she joined The Rithm Project’s Chief R&D Officer to discuss youth co-creation as a methodology in AI and social research. She has also helped facilitate research presentations and contributed to the synthesis of findings from The Rithm Project’s latest youth survey, always as someone with one foot in the classroom and the other in the bigger picture.