About
Nagela Nukuna is a public interest technologist whose work begins from one conviction: the most consequential innovation decisions are not made only by developers — they are made by leaders, institutions, and communities shaping how technology is implemented, governed, and shared.
She is an AI and product strategy executive who builds secure, scalable technology capabilities across mission-driven institutions. Her impact combines technical judgment, policy fluency, and operational leadership to turn emerging technologies into measurable institutional progress.
At College Board, Nukuna leads AI strategy, enterprise governance, and workforce transformation across one of the country’s most consequential educational institutions — one that touches millions of students at some of the most critical moments of their lives. Her work is to ensure the organization makes deliberate, accountable decisions about how AI reshapes the way people learn, work, and are evaluated.
Her career has moved purposefully across three distinct worlds: the private sector, federal government, and civil society. At Google and Netflix, she built technology at consumer scale. At the U.S. Digital Service and the Biden-Harris White House — where she served as Senior Advisor for Technology and Delivery — she learned what it truly means to build systems for people who have no alternative, and to be accountable when those systems fall short.
Nukuna approaches complex organizations as systems — locating the constraint, redesigning the flow, and measuring what actually matters for the people the work is meant to serve.
“Technology does not become public interest work by accident. It requires leaders willing to hold institutions accountable to the communities they claim to serve.”