Arman Jaffer

Arman Jaffer is the CEO of Brisk Teaching, a teacher tool that leverages artificial intelligence to increase the quality and efficiency of instruction. Brisk is directly integrated within educators' existing tools and offers four functionalities: differentiating texts, creating content, giving feedback, and authenticating writing. Eight months after launching, Brisk is used by nearly 1 million teachers and is the most popular AI-powered Chrome Extension for educators. In 2025, Arman was honored as one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 for his innovative contributions to education technology. Prior to founding Brisk, Arman started and led the Notebooks team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for five years. Before CZI, Arman held positions at the White House, the Aspen Institute, and Google; he has degrees in Computer Science and Economics from UC Berkeley.