🍓 And then we're going to move some money

Hi Reader,

Anne is live today at 12:30 Pacific with Ashanti Bentil-Dhue, on what a single earner can do with AI that used to take a team. The full description is further down. This is the first in our series, Meet the CREATE Conference Cavalry!

Then Anne is back on Saturday for Social Saturday — the free weekly gathering for women from She Leads AI — with Practical AI for Fundraising, Advocacy, and Democracy. You write a Personal AI Policy, which is her phrase for a working framework that makes your AI decisions line up with your values and your organization’s standards. You go through what you collect and why, what belongs in the database and what should stay a one-off. And then, in her words, we are going to move some money.

It is the subject she has spent her whole career on, and she leads a full afternoon on it at the CREATE Conference in Salt Lake City in October, on the Friday before the conference opens.

TODAY

Ashanti Bentil-Dhue — founder of Unpunishable Woman and creator of the Invisible Contracts Framework — and Anne talk through what AI changes for a single earner. How much one person can learn without paying for it, and how quickly one person can price and negotiate work that used to take a team. Join us in the chat! Gather with us live on YouTube or LinkedIn

Warmly,
Kate
She Leads AI

P.S. Here’s something for you this week. The Workshop Maker. It takes you from what you want to teach to a workshop you can run — the description, the format, what to charge, and how to fill it.
Get the Workshop Maker → https://sheleadsai.ai/workshopmaker/

🗓️ Social Saturday

Free for all women. Hosted by Beth Lyons and Jen Schwartz.

Practical AI for Fundraising, Advocacy, and Democracy with Anne Murphy

𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗰𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆

𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯…𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳

This Social Saturday is for people using AI in fundraising, advocacy, organizing, and social-impact leadership who want practical strategies they can keep using.

We’ll begin by building a Personal AI Policy — a working framework for making AI decisions aligned with your values and your organization’s standards.

Then we’ll move into Data Reckoning and ethical research — what data you collect, why you collect it, what belongs in your database, what should stay one-off, and how to turn research into actionable intelligence.

And then we’re going to move some money.

You’ll identify people who could advance a cause through time, treasure, talent, ties, or testimony. We’ll use AI to understand why they may care, identify the right approach, personalize at scale, prepare the pitch, secure meetings with important funders, and build the follow-up.

Because the fortune is in the follow-up.

Along the way, we’ll connect this to stakeholder trust, confidentiality, constituent voice, organizing, and AI adoption inside organizations.

𝗬𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼

• Make better AI decisions using a Personal AI Policy and a practical framework for data, confidentiality, research, and stakeholder trust.

• Turn research into engagement by identifying ideal constituents, understanding why they may care, testing messages from their point of view, and personalizing at scale.

• Move people toward action — including securing a meeting with an important funder, preparing stronger asks across the five Ts, and following up in a way that keeps the relationship moving.

Gather With Us On Saturdays

Social Saturday is made possible by the She Leads AI Society, our membership program for human-centered AI practitioners.

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🔥 Other Upcoming Events

Build, Launch, Scale Lab - Workshop 5
Design Systems That Support You

For Members of the She Leads AI Society

🗓️ Wednesday, September 2 from 11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

Growing a business doesn't require doing more—it requires building systems that help you do the right things consistently.

In this workshop, participants will identify one area of their work that feels repetitive, overwhelming, or unnecessarily complicated and begin transforming it into a simple, repeatable process. Rather than chasing the newest tools or automating everything at once, participants will learn to simplify first, then intentionally introduce technology and AI where it creates meaningful leverage.

By the end of the session, participants will have created a Simple Systems Plan that helps them reduce friction, reclaim time, and build a business that supports their life rather than consumes it.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

Map one core business process from beginning to end.
Identify areas where unnecessary complexity creates friction.
Recognize where AI or technology can simplify work without adding complexity.
Design one simple system they can immediately implement.
Evaluate technology additions using intentional decision criteria.
Build an initial, purpose-driven technology stack.

Participants leave with:

A Simple Systems Plan
One documented workflow or SOP
One responsibility to stop, simplify, delegate, or automate
An initial intentional tech stack
AI prompts for documenting and improving future workflows

The Build, Launch, Scale Lab is a benefit of membership in She Leads AI. We recommend the full arc — the workshops build on one another. And the curriculum is built to be joined as your time allows, with every replay and resource waiting in the learning management system.

Join the She Leads AI Society →

📢 She Leads AI Society Members Making an Impact

Corean Canty is COO of Nashville Public Radio, based in Atlanta, a two-time TEDx speaker and official TEDx coach whose headline reads "I learned my best leadership skills behind a mic. Now I teach leaders to do the same." She opens her profile with a claim she immediately qualifies — "The stories we tell shape the world we build. That's not a tagline. It's what I've watched play out for 20 years, in boardrooms, on stages, and now inside a public media organization built entirely on story." Before public media she "built operating systems and led teams through growth, PE transactions, and the kind of change that breaks culture if you get it wrong," and she compresses the lesson into two lines — "Strategy moves on paper. People move on story." She spent nearly 15 years performing improv and writing sketch comedy, which taught her "something strategy never could. The only thing that ever lands is the truth." This month she published a free guide for anyone wondering whether they have a TEDx talk in them, with her standing advice that "you don't start with the talk. You start with the idea." And a few months into the COO job, she wrote this week — "Sometimes the first part of leading change is resisting the urge to change anything at all." She speaks at CREATE Conference 2026 on Saturday and Sunday.

Michelle Muncy-Silva is Executive Director of the She Leads AI Academy and founder of Data Parity AI, and she states the case in bold at the top of her profile — "the future of AI must be built by, with, and for everyone, not just those who have historically held power." Data Parity AI is her answer to a figure she cites plainly, that "medical AI reports 95% overall accuracy while producing 39% error rates for Black speakers. We're fixing that." The company builds "consent-based, participant-verified voice datasets," starting with an AAVE Healthcare Voice Dataset, so that "accuracy across dialects isn't an afterthought or, worse, a tragic omission." She tests the case in public on her Empowered by AI podcast, where a recent episode with cybercriminologist Nakshathra Suresh takes a 1979 criminology framework and reads it as a product-design checklist — safety, in Michelle's summary, being "a decision you make while you're still mapping the user journey." Her line to any woman who uses these tools without a technical background — "You don't need a computer science degree to ask why a system doesn't hear you." At CREATE Conference 2026 she co-leads the Friday Certified AI Educator Intensive with Pamela Oberg and Anne Murphy.

Vanessa Chang describes herself as "a writer, founder, and advisor," works from the San Francisco Bay Area, and puts an instruction in her headline — "Think with AI (not like AI)." She places her work in "the useful middle between AI hype and AI doom, where real people have to think, decide, and build." She co-founded Bernie, "AI that protects elders from fraud," and runs Think with V, "a one-person media company built on AI" for people "who take their thinking as seriously as their tech stack." Bernie has not launched yet — "We're just a short while from launching" — and she describes the past few months as "trying to give people like us a chance against this deluge," the deluge being "a multi-billion dollar industry" targeting aging parents and elders. She reads AI at street level. This month she clocked San Francisco billboards reversing a year of "Stop Hiring Humans" advertising and concluded, "Even in the most AI-saturated square mile on earth, the billboards are hedging their bets. Humans, it turns out, still matter." Her rule for what to hand off came out of an experiment where she gave a dreaded weekend task to an AI agent and went and lived her weekend, and found the time saved secondary to the mental load lifting. The line she draws is firm — "The deep, curiosity-feeding work, the kind that makes you more skillful and more yourself? That's what you should never offload." She gives the Sunday morning plenary at CREATE Conference 2026, "Think Like Yourself — Building Cognitive Sovereignty in the Age of Agentic AI."

☕️ Worth A Share

In 1979, two criminologists mapped out the three conditions for the perfect crime. Turns out that framework describes almost every AI product built today.

On this episode of Empowered by AI, Michelle Muncy-Silva sat down with Nakshathra Suresh, a cybercriminologist, founder of safety-tech consultancy Iris, and lecturer at the University of New South Wales, to talk about what criminology can teach founders about building safer products.

You can tune in for the whole episode wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts or at https://www.youtube.com/@EmpoweredbyAISLAI

CREATE Conference 2026 is three days in Salt Lake City built for women in AI leadership — October 16–18. Strategy, hands-on sessions, and peers who understand the challenges you're facing. Gather with us →