Institutional Contributor
Elena Vasquez
Faculty Lead, Applied AI Practice
Elena writes the Applied AI Foundations curriculum and oversees editorial review at Kindra AI University. Before Kindra, she led applied ML at two mid-sized SaaS firms and spent four years inside a compliance practice where her job was to decide which decisions could safely be delegated to a model. She is a practitioner first.
Expertise
- Applied AI literacy
- Editorial standards
- Prompt and workflow design
- Model judgment and failure modes
Published writing
Why AI Literacy Needs More Than Prompting
Prompting is a useful skill. Calling it literacy is a category error — and one that the working public deserves to have corrected calmly.
The Difference Between Using AI and Understanding AI
Fluency is not authority. A careful practitioner uses the model knowing what it is, not just what it produces — and the distinction compounds quietly.