Rebrand Institute of Tech Equity · 501(c)(3)

    Remove Gates.Build Bridges.Carry Fire.

    We build community-owned Innovation Centers where families, educators, and entrepreneurs learn AI on their own terms — and keep the keys.

    Chapter One — Remove Gates

    The digital divide isn't a gap.
    It's a locked gate.

    Every barrier to AI literacy — broadband, transit, language, credentialism, cost — is a gate that someone built. We name them, document them, and dismantle them, one CIC at a time.

    Founded by Kayla Life. Based in Atlanta. Operating in Georgia, Texas, and (this October) Maryland.

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    Chapter Two — Build Bridges

    One hearth, then the next.

    Each Community Innovation Center is a lit node. The ember paths show how the work moves — from flagship to region to next launch.

    → Select a lit node on the map to explore that Community Innovation Center

    DOUGLASVILLE, GAHOUSTON, TXBALTIMORE, MD

    The Fire Map · 3 Centers

    Live Launching

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    Flagship — Southeast

    Douglasville, GA

    Hosted by Angels In Progress

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    Chapter Three — Carry Fire

    The work is the people
    who keep doing it.

    Families and the RITE team gathered for a Family AI Night at the Douglasville Community Innovation Center

    Family AI Nights

    A grandmother prompts her first model.

    Saturday evenings at Angels In Progress in Douglasville — parents and grandparents sit beside their kids and learn to talk to AI together. No jargon, no judgment. Most leave with a new family project.

    A young learner with headphones meets Kip the robot during a KidoTech AI literacy session

    KidoTech (K–4)

    Eight-year-olds shipping their first app.

    Our K–4 curriculum treats AI like a paintbrush: a tool you can teach, not just consume. Kids walk out of one workshop having built something they can show on Monday morning.

    A Culture Code Camp student in a RITE tee follows an "Every Beat = One Tally" rhythm lesson

    Culture Code Camp (C3)

    K–8 students coding their culture.

    C3 pairs cultural identity with computational thinking. From kindergarten through eighth grade, students explore tech through what they already love — basketball, dance, music, and content creation — and build projects rooted in who they are and where they come from.