Begin with the people affected
Local knowledge, access, constraints, and goals come before a tool or predetermined solution.
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About the Collaborative
Technology becomes useful when people can shape it together.
The Mississippi AI Collaborative is a community of educators, students, researchers, builders, entrepreneurs, and local leaders. We turn emerging technology into learning people can question, practice, adapt, and share.
How we work
Make evidence usable
We translate research and primary sources into public learning, practical questions, and adaptable tools.
Build people who can teach others
Participants leave more able to guide a classroom, team, project, or community conversation.
Make AI and emerging-technology learning practical, responsible, and useful across Mississippi.
More people able to understand the technology, question its effects, and choose what fits their own goals and communities.
Reported impact through 2025
Reach matters. What people can carry forward matters more.
These cumulative figures document participation and reach. The stories below explain the capacity we aim to leave behind: people who can teach, adapt, question, and build with others.
See the published impact record ↗3,427+individuals engaged
1,408+educators trained
86businesses supported
486Southern Spark attendees
65,900+digital reach
How impact grows
Teach one person. Reach a community.
MAIC builds confidence in people who can carry learning forward. An educator can reach a classroom. A community leader can guide an organization. A student can bring new skills into a career or local project.
- 01Learn with support
People build a practical foundation in a trusted setting.
- 02Adapt it locally
They connect the learning to their own students, work, and community.
- 03Share what works
Knowledge travels through classrooms, organizations, peer networks, and families.
Educators
One educator can reach a whole learning community.
Through our teach-the-teacher model, educators learn, practice, adapt, and carry practical AI lessons and responsible habits back to students, colleagues, and families.
Businesses & nonprofits
Applied support becomes local confidence.
AI Agency participants pair guided learning with practical projects so knowledge remains with the organization after the engagement.
Community connections
Shared questions become shared progress.
Southern Spark and Spark Studios connect practitioners and communities that might otherwise solve the same problems alone.
MAIC leadership & program team
A focused team that learns with others.
Our leadership and program team contributes experience in classrooms, workforce development, research, technology, entrepreneurship, and community learning. We work with partners when their expertise helps a community take a useful next step.
Krystal Chatman
Board President · K–12 education
Dr. Nashlie Sephus
Technical AI · The Bean Path
Bob Buseck
Workforce pathways · Mississippi Coding Academies
Dr. Alisa L. Mosley
Institutional AI strategy · Jackson State University
Dr. Loretta A. Moore
Computer science research · Jackson State University
Dr. Almesha Campbell
Research commercialization · Jackson State University
MyKinzi Roy
AI Collaborative Program Manager
Trey Brown
Center for Innovation Fellow Manager
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