Founder. Author. Always learning.
Helen Lee Kupp.
Building, writing,
and staying curious.
I’m the founder of Women Defining AI and a coauthor of How the Future Works. I follow questions through reading, experiments, and making things.
The notebook
Stay
Curious
Reading, experiments,
and better questions.
A place for questions I don’t have answers to yet.
How do we discover what we don’t know we don’t know? Learn how to learn? Ask better questions?
I follow those threads through reading, experiments and building, and see where they lead.
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Selected work
A few things
I’ve worked on.
Community · Founder & CEO · 2023-now
A CA 501(c)3 focused on finding the builders who don't know that they are builders yet. We are dedicated to educating the public on artificial intelligence and promoting inclusive technological advancement. Level the playing field for women by helping everyone shape the world around them through building.
Open Source · Coming soon
An upcoming open-source experiment in building a SQL database with AI and exploring machine-checked proofs of correctness.
Coloring book · Published 2026
An AI side quest to see if "AI can be funny" and explore the bounds of AI in creative endeavors. Circle Back is an adult coloring book for burned out techies. Part corporate humor. Part real engineering workflows to bring this collaboration to life. The behind-the-scenes is even more interesting than the jokes themselves, though both are awesome.
Book · Coauthor · Published 2022
Leading flexible teams to do the best work of their lives. Written with Brian Elliott and Sheela Subramanian.
A little background
Hello, again.
Before founding Women Defining AI, I worked in Strategy & Analytics leadership at Slack. Along the way, I coauthored a book about flexible work.
Now, my work spans community building, writing, and hands-on learning. This is a home for those different threads.
Thanks for stopping by.