Our Story

Our story began in November 2024, in Washington, D.C., where Francesca Mani, Dorota Mani, Nicolas Gertler, and other passionate advocates at Encode came together to host an educational summit urging schools across the U.S. to update their policies to include AI in HIB and codes of conduct. The summit featured powerful speakers, including Senators Cruz, Klobuchar, and Durbin, along with representatives from Snapchat, RAINN, and NCMEC.

Francesca, TIME Magazine's youngest (14-year-old!) TIME 100 most influential person in AI, became an accidental advocate after being targeted by nonconsensual digital forgery along with other girls at her high school. Her mom, an educator and entrepreneur, together with Fran refused to accept the school's "let's hope this blows over" approach and took action instead.

Enter Nicolas, the Yale Student AI Ambassador and Founder & CEO of Mylon, who joined forces with Francesca and Dorota to do the common sense thing: organize a national campaign to help schools update their policies to respond to AI, educate students and teachers on responsible AI usage to amplify their learning experiences, and prevent future misuse.