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Shelly Thomas's avatar

Hi Karen, could we update my newsletter to Building Beta? I've closed down Engineer Your Edge and restarted as Building Beta. 😊

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Karen Smiley's avatar

Sure, Shelly - we’ll update it :)

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Shelly Thomas's avatar

Definitely working on recruiting more Alaskan contributors!! 🤗

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Shelly Thomas's avatar

So excited to see Alaska on this list, and all the countries and contributors you've added! 🤗🥳

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Karen Smiley's avatar

Shelly, it’s great to have you as our first - and hopefully soon, not the only - Alaskan writer about AI 😊

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Karen Smiley's avatar

Everyone, thank you all so much for your engagement and enthusiasm for our directory. It's now up to 450 writers and it needs more room to grow 😊 As of June 15, 2025, this directory has been migrated to a shiny new She Writes AI newsletter: shewritesai.substack.com Check it out, and please subscribe (free) to be notified of additions and to participate in the upcoming community features!

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Chris O'Brien's avatar

Highly recommend Decoding Discontinuity by Raphaelle D'Ornano: https://www.decodingdiscontinuity.com

Great analysis of AI's impact on business moats and models.

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Renu Gupta's avatar

This looks so good. I am writing on law and tech and we’re starting work on data analytics in justice space.

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Karen Smiley's avatar

Very cool, Renu Gupta, I’ll add you in the next batch of updates!

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Career Compass's avatar

What an incredible list. Not on the list yet, but I recently wrote an article about AI—feel free to check it out if you're interested:

https://careercompass1.substack.com/p/ai-created-170-million-new-jobs-are?r=5fqyap

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Karen Smiley's avatar

Thanks for speaking up! I’ll DM you 😊

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Angela Stewart's avatar

Wow, what an incredible list. I now have so many more women to follow! Thanks for compiling @karensmiley!

Add me to the list please + Angela Stewart (https://angelastewartai.substack.com)

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Karen Smiley's avatar

Happy to add you in the next batch of updates, Angela!

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Daria Cupareanu's avatar

Thank you so much for including me, Karen! 💜 I can’t wait to dive into the post and discover more incredible women in this space. What an amazing resource

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Karen Smiley's avatar

You absolutely belong here, Daria 😊 And yes, so many talented women and fresh perspectives on AI among these 400!

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Tam Nguyen's avatar

Wow, this is amazing! Thank you so much for putting in the time and care to build this directory.

Honestly, it’s badass. I’m excited to dive into these publications and connect with more women and non-binary folks in the space. There are way more people on here than I expected, and I love to see it.

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Karen Smiley's avatar

Absolutely, @Tam Nguyen - when I started the directory in December with 34, I had a sense that there were still more women writing here about AI and data, but it amazes me too that we’re up to 400 (and I’ve already found more).

One aspect I love is that a lot of this year’s additions are women who just started writing here on Substack this year … so that means we are growing in numbers (not that I’m just now discovering them). And that is very cool. You just started in April, right? and you’re already over 100 subscribers, which is awesome 😊

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Tamara Crockett's avatar

Tamara Crockett, Digital Nation, just joined 4/20/25. AI policy, law, and business.

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Karen Smiley's avatar

Happy to add you in the next batch of updates, Tamara! And welcome to Substack 😊

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Shelby B Larson's avatar

I love this. The more the merrier! <3

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es's avatar

hello! im kind of all over the place, a digital nomad of sorts but i write about data ethics, AI policy and overall tech philosophy! idk where you would pin me on a map anywhere from america to europe to turkey lol

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Karen Smiley's avatar

So glad you spoke up here, Esra - I just skimmed a few of your articles & enjoyed your writing about AI and ethics. I'll be glad to put your map pin in whatever country or metro area you feel best represents you 😊 I'll DM you!

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Larissa's avatar

If someone is looking for a german-speaking perspective on AI & Data, feel free to follow my substack :) sometimes it is not easy to seperate the US views from those with impact also on EU and GER.

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Karen Smiley's avatar

Hi @Larissa, thank you for chiming in! I’ll be glad to add you to the next update of the directory. And my German is weak but I’ll enjoy reading what I can of your writing about views on AI & data from Germany 😊

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𝕃𝕖𝕪𝕝𝕒 ℤ𝕖𝕟𝕠𝕟 🇦🇪's avatar

I write about Marketing and AI in my Growth Playbook!

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Karen Smiley's avatar

Hi, Leyla! I see your March 5 post on using AI for personalizing marketing. I’ll add you to the directory in the next batch of updates 😊

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𝕃𝕖𝕪𝕝𝕒 ℤ𝕖𝕟𝕠𝕟 🇦🇪's avatar

You’re awesome, thank you!

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Karen Smiley's avatar

Oh cool, looks like you’ll be our first writer in UAE!

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Amita's avatar

Thank you so much for this list Karen! Finding some great new writers to follow here. I’d love to be added too please! https://amitashukla.substack.com/

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Karen Smiley's avatar

Hi Amita! So nice to ‘meet’ you 😊 I will be glad to add you in the next batch of updates. I see you have a post about agentic AI - I’ve saved it to read later :)

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