In the midst of a career change from teaching to tech, I co-founded a digital art company focused on the latest developments in AI image generation. We supplied the art for an NFT project that turned a profit (don't judge). I managed our in-house developers and coordinated with two different international teams to experiment in the young field of AI art. (This was before Midjourney. We're talking custom training on StyleGAN2, and a Russian hack of Dall-E.)

I taught math to at-risk high schoolers and middle schoolers. This involved forging personal, trusted connections with kids who've had mostly negative experiences in school, and making the abstractions of math accessible enough for them to attain a high school diploma or GED.