Kirsten Peterson, EDC senior project director, builds strategic partnerships and leads complex, multi-partner initiatives at the intersection of education, workforce development, and emerging technology. She brings together educators, industry partners, institutions, and funders to create programs that expand opportunity and strengthen pathways to the future of work.

Kirsten currently serves as the Learning Strategy and Implementation Lead for EDC’s Integrating AI Literacy into Community College Programs project, funded by the National Science Foundation. Through this work, she co-authored the recent article, “Human-Centered AI Interactions,” which describes EDC’s five-step AI interaction framework. Within EDC, she also serves as the organization’s companywide AI Learning Lead and heads EDC’s AI Community of Practice, which examines AI-related issues and fosters continuous learning.

Kirsten’s work at EDC has included leadership roles on major multi-partner initiatives such as Science Plus C (Advancing Science through Computing), Programming the Acceleration of Computing Education, and Innovation Pathway to Data Careers, where she led learning strategy, partnership development, and professional learning to strengthen education-to-career pathways. Earlier in her career, she helped launch, grow, and direct EDC’s nationally recognized EdTech Leaders Online program, which has built educator capacity in online professional learning and course design since 2000.

Kirsten serves on the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Digital Learning Advisory Council. She holds an EdM in Technology in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.