Priten Soundar-Shah
Meet Priten
Priten is an educator, philosopher, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of technology and education.
He is the CEO of PedagogyVentures, where he helps organizations integrate technology with proven teaching strategies.
Priten leads three nonprofit: PedagogyFutures, as Executive Director, which provides professional development resources to build a responsible, ethical, human-centered future for educational technology; Academy 4 Social Civics, as President, which is dedicated to civics education that prepares students to tackle future challenges; and ThinkerAnalytix, as CTO, which is working to scale critical thinking instruction at educational institutions around the world.
Priten is also the author of the AI & The Future of Education: Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Wiley, 2023), which was translated into Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, and Vietnamese, and the forthcoming book Ethical Ed Tech: How Educators Can Lead on AI & Digital Safety in K-12 (Wiley, 2026). He teaches courses on the Ethics of Ed Tech, Family & Society, and Epistemic Justice at College Unbound, a bachelor’s degree-granting institution focused on adult learners.
Priten is a visiting researcher at the Harvard Department of Philosophy focusing on developing philosophically grounded yet practical approaches to teaching critical, ethical reasoning at scale for educators and students.
He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard College and an M.Ed. in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Under Priten’s leadership, Pedagogy Ventures has helped over 200 educational organizations adapt and thrive – from guiding schools through the shift to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic to introducing AI tools that make teachers’ lives easier.
Priten’s philosophy is simple: put educators and students first, and innovation will follow. He is often heard saying, “I see myself as a philosopher who codes, not a developer who philosophizes,” reflecting his belief that technology in education must be guided by thoughtful pedagogy.
