Every year, Women AI Labs selects a cohort of exceptional women builders to receive a year of mentorship, compute credits, community support, and a $15,000 stipend through our Innovation Fellowship programme. Today we're proud to introduce the eight 2026 Fellows.
The 2026 Cohort
Maria Gutierrez (Mexico City) is building a low-bandwidth AI diagnostic tool for rural clinics in Latin America, using federated learning to keep patient data on-device.
Priya Nair (Bengaluru) is developing a multilingual AI tutoring system for first-generation college students in India, with a focus on STEM subjects in regional languages.
Fatima Al-Rashid (Amman) is researching adversarial robustness in vision models used for refugee documentation processing by UN agencies.
Zoe Mitchell (Cape Town) is creating an AI-powered crop disease detection app for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa that works fully offline.
Four additional fellows — working on climate risk modelling, legal NLP for asylum seekers, AI accessibility tools for the deaf community, and bias-resistant predictive policing audits — will be featured in individual spotlights over the coming weeks.