Iman Saint Jean

EduTech Teacher @HelpCircle Co-Founder Digital Toolkit Dealer Entreprovation Oakland Lover

Iman Saint Jean (@Imansaintjean) is an educational technologist, teacher, mother and co-founder of the HelpCircle app. "Could an app have saved Trayvon Martin?" That's the question that led her to co-found the mobile emergency response app HelpCircle. The app allows users who feel unsafe to message their location coordinates to their emergency contacts. HelpCircle won first place at Startup Weekend Oakland's 2014 Black Male Achievement hackathon. She has since appeared on NPR's Tell Me More to discuss the importance of STEM and other Digital Technologies for girls and communities of color.

In April, she took a group of students from Emery Unified School District to the YTH- Youth, Tehcnology, Health Hackathon and Conference, where one 7th grader co-created the bEATen Track App with a team of other youth. The bEATen Track is being sponsored and promised $30,000 by Kaiser to produce the app. Her students left the hackathon inspired and eager to continue building technologies that matter.

Saint Jean is completing her Master's degree in Education and instructional technologies at San Francisco State University and plans to launch a curriculum project that assists higher education administrators and educators to incoportate powerful and meaningful technologies into their teaching practices.

She resides in Emeryville California and can be reached at the links above. The NPR, OaklandLocal, and other links below highlight some of the media coverage regarding her acheivements.

Check out her interview with NPR here: http://www.npr.org/2014/03/18/291133073/how-parents-are-leading-the-revolution-for-girls-in-tech

Ariticle featured on Oakland Local by Barbara Grady: http://oaklandlocal.com/2014/02/startup-weekend-oaklandblack-male-achievement-produces-14-apps-lots-of-inspiration/