Maya Bialik

Maya Bialik

Maya Bialik is the founder of QuestionWell, a program that creates research-aligned AI tools for education. A former middle school science teacher, Maya’s focus is on how AI can improve working conditions for teachers, making their creative work easier, more effective, and more enjoyable.

Maya has worked with teachers, school leaders, entrepreneurs, and policymakers and has led workshops, given keynotes, taught courses, presented at conferences, and provided consulting. Since earning her master’s degree in mind, brain, and education from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2012, Maya has been passionate about bridging the gaps among researchers, practitioners, and technologists. Combining her immigrant experience and her experience learning, performing, and directing narrative and musical improvisation, she creates collaborative spaces for grappling with complex topics and building mutual understanding.

Maya serves on the board of The Plenary, Co., a civic arts and sciences nonprofit building collective knowledge, community agency, and public imagination. She is also an adviser for the Center for Curriculum Redesign, a nonprofit that asks, “What should students learn to be prepared for the 21st century?” She holds bachelor’s degrees in psychology, biology, and linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is currently earning her PhD in educational studies at Boston University.