16. Unmasking AI: Angeline Corvaglia on Bias, Emotional Design, and Protecting Your Unique Voice

Angeline Corvaglia, founder of Data Girl and Friends and the soon-to-be-announced SHIELD, joins us to explore how AI education can equip the next generation to stay thoughtful, self-aware, and socially grounded in an age of algorithmic influence.

With a background in global finance and digital transformation, Angeline now works at the intersection of AI literacy and youth empowerment. In this expansive conversation, she shares how emotional design, biased data labeling, and chatbot companions are already shaping young minds, and what parents, teachers, and communities can do about it.

Angeline’s insights challenge us to center student voice, rethink “neutral” tech, and reclaim our inner compass in a time of persuasive machines.

Highlights:

• The chatbot conversation that sparked her shift from CFO to AI literacy advocate
• How young people are unknowingly outsourcing critical thinking to chatbots
• What educators need to know about AI bias, trust, and voice development
• Global stories from Nigeria to Italy revealing AI’s cultural blind spots
• Simple metaphors (like cookie crumbs!) that make data concepts stick