Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek

Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek

Faculty: AI Workflows with Claude at Augment.org
Greater Seattle Area

Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek is Chief Executive Officer at Clarity AI, Faculty for AI Workflows with Claude at Augment.org, Investor Scout at Hustle Fund, Business Fellow at Perplexity, and Technical Course and Code Lab Author at Pluralsight. She specializes in AI strategy, executive leadership, and training, with expertise in boosting revenue and impact for CEOs using AI tools.

  • Augment.org Faculty: AI Workflows with Claude 2026–present · current
  • Hustle Fund logo
    Hustle Fund Early Stage Startups: Investor Scout 2025–present, Angel Squad Member 2023 · current
  • Perplexity Business Fellow 2025–present · current
  • Pluralsight Technical Course and Code Lab Author: AI, Data, Code, Stats 2024–present · current
  • University of Oxford Industry Partner 2024–present · current
  • Wiley Bestselling Author: Your AI Roadmap, Featured in Forbes 2024–present · current
  • Clarity AI Chief Executive Officer 2023–present · current
  • Women in Voice Founder of Nonprofit, President Aug 2018-Aug 2024 2018–present · current
  • Professional Speaker Keynote Speaker | AI Workshops | 3 AI Tools Hands-on Workshop 2017–present · current
  • Female Invest Member 2025–2026 · past
  • 3 Ridge Technologies AI Strategic Advisor 2023–2025 · past
  • Seattle Angel Conference logo
    Seattle Angel Conference Investor 2023 · past
  • OneReach.ai VP of Data and Analytics 2022–2023 · past
  • Edwards Lifesciences AI Product Advisor 2020–2022 · past
  • Startup Head of User Research 2020–2021 · past
  • WeWork Entrepreneur In Residence 2020 · past
  • Nuance Communications Senior Conversation Experience Designer 2019 · past
  • VERSA Agency Head of Conversational Research & Strategy 2019–2020 · past
  • Applause Voice Technical Specialist 2018 · past
  • ImmerseMe Data Scientist & UX Researcher: VR-Based, Automatic Speech Recognition EdTech 2017 · past
  • University of Arizona Principal UX Researcher (Voice, VR, AR, UX) 2017–2019, Webmaster & Assistant to the Director: Postdoctoral Affairs, Mixed Methods Researcher 2017–2018 · past
  • Author Author: Adobe XD, Harvard Business Review, Cambridge University Press + 2016–2021 · past
  • UC Davis Graduate Student Association (GSA) Executive Council: Public Relations Officer, Co-Founder of Holistic Health Initiative 2015–2016, Associate Instructor of French 2014–2016, Mixed Methods Researcher, Qualitative & Quantiative User Research, Linguistics, & Language Education 2014–2016 · past
  • TAPIF - Teaching Assistant Program in France - USA Educator for French Ministry of Education 2013–2014 · past
  • UW, University of California, Davis, & University of Arizona Researcher 2013–2018 · past

Organizations

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  • Augment.org Faculty: AI Workflows with Claude 2026–present · current
  • Hustle Fund logo
    Hustle Fund Early Stage Startups: Investor Scout 2025–present, Angel Squad Member 2023 · current
  • Perplexity Business Fellow 2025–present · current

Education

  • University of Arizona Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Conversational AI and Multimodal AI
  • University of California, Davis Master of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics
  • University of Washington Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Photography/Graphic Design
  • University of Washington Bachelor of Arts - BA, French Studies

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