Summary
Tasha Upchurch is a Lead AI/EdTech Consultant and Program Director with a decade of experience building NLP and computer vision solutions for learning environments and civic tech. She designs and runs hybrid professional development workshops for K–12 educators, translating teacher survey insights into practical AI curriculum that balances productivity, classroom application, and policy. As founder of an employee-owned indie game studio and former Data Scientist at StorySquad, she blends creative product prototyping (Unity, generative visuals) with production ML work including GPT-driven game agents and vision pipelines. Based in Trinidad, Colorado, she also consults on civic campaigns and prototypes automation and security-minded systems on low-cost hardware like Raspberry Pi. Known for forging regional partnerships across rural districts, she brings a pragmatic, community-centered approach to deploying ethical AI in education.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Associate of Science - AS, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Coconino Community College
Arizona State University
Data Science, Data Science at BloomTech