{"id":17766,"date":"2026-02-27T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/?p=17766"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:31:50","slug":"congratulations-to-michelle-kennedy-for-an-outstanding-accomplishment-as-a-pioneer-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/congratulations-to-michelle-kennedy-for-an-outstanding-accomplishment-as-a-pioneer-in-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Michelle Kennedy for an OUTSTANDING Accomplishment as a Pioneer in AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an extraordinary milestone for innovation, culture, and community leadership. <strong>Congratulations to Michelle Kennedy<\/strong>,\u00a0for architecting the first-ever AI\u2011Powered Debutante Experience, a groundbreaking fusion of legacy and technology that reimagines what it means to honor tradition in a digital age.<br \/><br \/>As highlighted in the link below, Michelle\u2019s vision, brought to life alongside Gwen Nevitt and Tosha Liddell, transformed the South Belt Houston Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc.\u2019s 2025 debutante season into an immersive, avatar-led experience that educated, inspired, and empowered every participant.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/black-women-in-artificial-intelligence\/when-tradition-meets-tech-how-three-black-women-created-the-first-ai-powered-debutante-experience-afa5ddce5b76\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/black-women-in-artificial-intelligence\/when-tradition-meets-tech-how-three-black-women-created-the-first-ai-powered-debutante-experience-afa5ddce5b76\"><strong>WHEN TRADITION MEETS TECH\u00a0&gt;&gt;\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><br \/><br \/>This wasn\u2019t just an event. It was a blueprint for what individuals and teams can do when they think outside of the box and embrace new technologies.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Michelle, for being an amazing long-standing member of the EiSi Leadershi team, for showing true leadership, and for showing what&#8217;s\u00a0possible when strategy, storytelling, and innovation meet purpose. Your are a true pioneer!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Michelle-Kennedy-2026-ElzZWJPxntb5.png?fit=1024%2C904&ssl=1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Michelle-Kennedy-2026-ElzZWJPxntb5.png?fit=1024%2C904&ssl=1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"904\" alt=\"Michelle-Kennedy-2026.png\" style=\"display:inline-block\" \/><\/a> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an extraordinary milestone for innovation, culture, and community leadership. Congratulations to Michelle Kennedy,\u00a0for architecting the first-ever AI\u2011Powered Debutante Experience, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showcase","pmpro-has-access"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Michelle-Kennedy-2026-ElzZWJPxntb5.png?fit=1024%2C904&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17770,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766\/revisions\/17770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilandgasadmins.org\/eisi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}