VRITI SARAF'S BIOGRAPHY

Vriti Saraf (https://www.vritisaraf.com/) is co-founder and CEO of Ed3 DAO (https://www.ed3dao.com/), a non-profit that upskills educators on emerging technologies through research-based pedagogy. She is also the founder of k20 Educators, a design studio and consultancy, which incubated Ed3 DAO. 


Vriti started her career as a Teach for America teacher in Brooklyn, NY. She went on to serve as an Instructional Dean and then Network Director of Professional Development at Ascend Learning Charter Schools, where she built a Teacher Residency Program as well as a Dean Professional Learning Program. During this time, Vriti also served as a part-time Adjunct Professor for teachers earning their Masters, at Relay Graduate School of Education. 

After Ascend, Vriti joined Whittle School & Studios, an independent network aiming to build 30 schools around the world. As Global Director of Professional Learning, she built and led the organization’s teacher & leader evaluation systems and coaching programs. She also provided coaching and advisory support to school principals across the network. She spent time in China, India, and the US among other countries across the world researching and building programs. 

 

She is the creator of the first global conference for educators in a virtual world, the first newsletter for AI & web3 in education (https://ed3world.substack.com/), the first thinktank for virtual world building in education and the first conference for education on Twitter Spaces. She has her masters in early childhood development from Relay Graduate School of Education. She currently serves in advisory roles at XPrize, Full Steam Forward, and Mi Primer Bitcoin.

About Ed3 DAO

Founded by teachers, Ed3 DAO (https://www.ed3dao.com/) is a 501(c)3 non profit organization aiming to upskill 1 million educators on emerging technologies through research-backed pedagogies.
Ed3 is moving toward this mission through three main areas of development:

  1. Online Coursework: Over 15,000 educators have taken our asynchronous, self-paced courses on AI. Each course uses student-centered pedagogy like Project Based Learning, Universal Design for Learning, Design Thinking, and more, to help educators use AI thoughtfully in the classroom.
  2. Global Community of Practice: Our global community is focused on democratizing access to resources and ideas about the use of emerging technologies in education. We offer free workshops and events around the world and micro-grants for community members to facilitate in-person peer-to-peer learning events. 
  3. Research & Development: We pursue provocative ideas and research to help education move into the next frontier. Our latest initiative (as of 2025) is called the Portrait of a Teacher in the Age of AI where we are exploring the question: How does the role of the teacher change in a world transformed by AI?