“AI changed everything for me. Now I teach others how to use it without handing over the part that makes their work worth making.”
Lenise Kenney spent years believing she was the problem. Sitting in classrooms where everyone else seemed to follow along while the words on the board refused to arrange themselves into anything that made sense. She found out she was dyslexic in college. By then the damage was already done.
AI changed that. Not gently. She could take dense research and turn it into something she could actually follow. She could express herself without the anxiety that used to shut her down. She could finally walk into rooms knowing she had something to offer.
That experience is why she sees AI differently than most people in this space. She loves what these tools give people access to. She also sees what happens when people stop doing the thinking themselves. When convenience quietly replaces judgment. When the work starts to look like it could have come from anyone.
Her debut book, Protect Your Genius: The Art of Using AI Without Deleting Your Voice, is about staying present while using powerful tools. Not anti-AI. Not anti-speed. Just honest about what gets traded when nobody is paying attention.
She spent over a decade as a special educator, taught at the university level, and holds master's degrees in teaching and instructional technology with a focus on assistive tech. She builds with AI every day.
Audiences leave her conversations with a clearer sense of what they are actually trading when they let AI do the thinking for them.
