Put AI in service of your mission

Social impact organizations are uniquely positioned to benefit from AI - and uniquely at risk of getting it wrong. 

Your work is relational, values-driven, and deeply human. The last thing you need is technology that distracts or disconnects your people from why they showed up in the first place.

Through Braid for Social Impact, we apply three lenses to our Braided Organization framework, ensuring our work reflects the unique considerations and ambitions of the social impact sector.

Our mission is to help yours. We empower leaders to meet the scale of today’s challenges by ensuring their people reach their full potential in the AI era.

  • We embed questions of consent, representation, and data ethics directly into how we design our learning programs & org transformation projects.

  • We keep your theory of change and your community relationships at the center of every design decision, so that org evolutions never come at the cost of your integrity or relationships.

  • Every change we introduce has to earn its place by advancing your mission. We ask where it can help your teams reach more people, serve them better, and prove that it's working

Debbie Ahenkorah is the Lead for Braid’s Social Impact practice.

Debbie works with Cameron to combine expertise from three worlds that rarely speak to each other: corporate transformation, social impact leadership, and AI research.

“I'm passionate about Braid For Social Impact because I've lived on both sides of this work.

For fifteen years I founded and scaled mission-driven organizations across Africa, learning firsthand what it costs a lean, passionate team to operate at continental scale with limited tools and infrastructure. I'm driven now by the realization that if we could do so much with so little then, imagine what becomes possible when social impact organizations leverage the full power of AI.

Today, as a Responsible AI Specialist at Concordia University's Applied AI Institute, I help mission-driven organizations integrate AI in ways that amplify impact without compromising values. I'm a hands-on practitioner comfortable across the full AI stack from Claude, Gemini and Meta AI to NotebookLM, ElevenLabs, Elicit and Perplexity.

My work has been recognized through fellowships including Echoing Green and Aspen New Voices, the Grinnell Prize, and the Global Pluralism Award.”