From Classrooms to Critical Questions
Aminata Daramy is a researcher, writer, and organizational strategist whose work sits at the intersection of technology, education policy, and community power. She began her career as a K–12 educator, spending over a decade in schools and district offices across Texas. What she witnessed — underfunded systems, data systems built for compliance rather than children, and technology deployed without community voice — became the foundation for her intellectual work.
Aminata holds a Master of Arts in Government with a concentration in Data Analytics from Johns Hopkins University, where she graduated with a 3.85 GPA. Her graduate thesis examined how artificial intelligence in educational contexts encodes specific assumptions about human development — assumptions rooted in centuries-old debates about who education is for and what it should produce. That thesis became the seed for Learning Machines.
She is a Salesforce Certified Business Analyst, a 2025 Education Pioneers Fellow, and the founder of CommonEd Consulting LLC, through which she helps nonprofit and educational organizations build technology systems that actually serve their missions. She lives in Houston, Texas.
Credentials
MA, Government & Data Analytics — Johns Hopkins University, Education Pioneers Fellow, Lead Consultant and Founder of CommonEd Consulting LLC, 10+ years K–12 education and district leadership