Finding Founders

You just heard from Heather Smith as she describes the moment where her exhibit built a bridge between past and present. In a heartbreaking instant, she realized that her invention, Storyfile, could really work. But what is Storyfile? This company specializes in conversational video and preserving individual memories, posing fascinating hypotheticals for the future of education. Like…what if we could talk to a younger version of ourselves? What if high schoolers could talk face to face with a former president or revolutionary leader? This time travel might not be so far away due to Heather Smith’s 2017 launch with the USC Shoah Foundation and Institute of Creative Technologies. But Heather’s journey wasn’t always grounded in the past. Before she built a bridge between history and modern day AI, Heather worked at her family’s jewelry store, making connections the old fashioned way…