Antoinette Banks

Antoinette Banks is an award-winning cognitive scientist, Ford Fellow, and the Founder and CEO of Expert IEP, an AI-powered platform revolutionizing special education. With a foundation in Learning and Mind Sciences, Antoinette combines academic rigor, technical leadership, and personal advocacy to transform educational outcomes for students with disabilities. A Forbes contributor and proven executive with experience managing $50M budgets and teams of 120+, she has garnered support from Pharrell Williams' $1 million Black Ambition Prize and NewSchools Venture Fund to scale innovative solutions for equitable family engagement. Antoinette's Family Mattering Framework® empowers families as active partners in education, and her platform bridges classroom challenges with future opportunities for every child. She is also the author of Better Than a Diagnosis: A Single Parent's Guide to Autism, inspired by her journey as the mother of a neurodivergent child.