Mike Kentz

Mike Kentz is an award-winning educator with over 14 years of experience across journalism and teaching. He is a TEDx Speaker and his work in AI in Education has been featured in EdSurge, Edutopia, The Wall Street Journal, Canadian National Radio, and more. His workshops have been formulated as a product of direct classroom experience in 2023-24, when he developed a ground-breaking approach to teaching with AI in the classroom that has since been accepted for presentation at multiple national and regional education conferences, including the TCEA AI for Educators Conference, the 2024 Course Hero Education Summit, The Learning Ideas Conference and the University of Central Florida’s prestigious Teaching and Learning with AI Conference. These experiences now inform his unique, Humanities-based approach to developing AI Literacy among adults and students and helping schools to adapt to the advancement of artificial intelligence. He is a graduate of Georgetown University (B.A. American Studies), Relay Graduate School of Education (M.A.T.), and Wilkes University (M.A. Creative Writing). In his earlier career as a financial journalist in New York City, his reporting and writing was regularly featured in a wide variety of national news publications including Thomson Reuters, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, CNBC, Fox Business, and more. He now lives in Savannah, Georgia with his wife, dog, and cat.