Khan Academy Externship via Extern
Technology belongs to the human realm. It is fundamentally built to solve our problems and empower lives.
Work highlights the Khan Academy externship: building AI approaches to identify and pitch funding opportunities for large-scale free education.
Khan Academy · ✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress
100M people a year learn for free on Khan Academy. Someone pays for that. Use AI to source and pitch the deals that fund it next.
Built a W-4 onboarding simulation in Articulate Rise 360 and developed a Storyline 360 prototype and storyboard.
Technology belongs to the human realm. It is fundamentally built to solve our problems and empower lives.
Bilingual program strategist who brings people together to solve problems in education, technology, and community development. My background spans program leadership, customer onboarding, marketing, fundraising, and software development. I thrive when a team has an ambitious goal and needs someone who can listen closely, see what’s missing, and take ownership of what happens next. I’m as comfortable leading a workshop in English or Spanish as I am working through a technical problem or pitching a prospective partner. I help teams understand where customers get stuck, design training around ho
Externships
Khan Academy Strategic Partnerships & Growth Externship
In progress
Experience
Corporate Trainer and Onboarding Manager (selected roles)
Restaurants of America · 2008 to 2018 | Arizona
Program Coordinator, STEM Student Success (Contract)
University of Alaska Anchorage | ANSEP · June to August 2026 | Anchorage, AK
Marketing Communications & Program Consultant (Contract)
Foodsmart · June 2025 to June 2026 | Tucson, AZ
Community Engagement Officer / Education Specialist
Tucson Audubon Society · May 2022 to July 2024 | Tucson, AZ
Public Relations Manager
Safe Passage · March 2020 to August 2022 | DeKalb, IL
Human Resources Partner
Pappas Development LLC · September 2019 to March 2020 | DeKalb, IL
Education
TripleTen
Software Engineering Certificate Program · Class of 2026
Prescott College
Bachelor’s Degree in Sustainable Community Development · Class of 2018
Skills
✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress
100M people a year learn for free on Khan Academy. Someone pays for that. Use AI to source and pitch the deals that fund it next.
The project tested AI-assisted methods for sourcing funding partners and producing outreach materials. The work analyzed Khan Academy's revenue and partnership structure, distilled that analysis into a single visual one-screener, and documented the findings as a public HTML summary of what Khan Academy sells and who pays for it.
I analyzed Khan Academy's revenue and partnership structure and produced a visual one-screener, published as a public HTML page summarizing what Khan Academy sells and who funds it.
I analyzed Khan Academy's revenue and partnership structure, distilled it to one visual one-screener, and published the deliverable as a public HTML page that summarizes what Khan Academy sells and who pays for it.
Built a W-4 onboarding simulation in Articulate Rise 360 and developed a Storyline 360 prototype and storyboard.
Built and deployed a World Cup predictor using Python, Streamlit, and API data. Code and documentation at github.com/beamendivil/WC2026.
