2026-01-04 SheWritesAI Directory Update: 603 writers in 60+ countries
Added 1 new country affiliation (🇸🇴 Somalia!) and 14 new (to us) writers. Find their newsletters here and learn about the latest directory & digest features.
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This update adds 14 new people and one new country location (🇸🇴 Somalia!)
Lyka Saint (🇺🇸 USA) - Lyka Saint
Maribeth Martorana (🇺🇸 USA) - The Strategy Signal
Dr. Gigi Magan (🇵🇪 Peru, 🇺🇸 USA) - Dr. Gigi Magan
Next in Data (🇨🇦 Canada) - Next in Data
Hollie C. White (🇦🇺 Australia, 🇺🇸 USA) - Hollie's Substack
Fadumo Osman (🇸🇴 Somalia, 🇺🇸 USA) - Equitable Futures
AlgorithmicPeacebuilding (🇺🇸 USA) - Eden
Monashree Rath (🇳🇿 New Zealand) - The Real Growth Lab
Joanne Kerrigan (🇨🇦 Canada) - The Weaving Field
Trompe l'Art (🇩🇪 Germany, 🇫🇷 France) - trompelart's Substack
Maggie Vale (🇺🇸 USA) - The Neuro-Techno Witch
AI Conversation Design (🇮🇳 India, 🇮🇪 Ireland) - AI Conversation Design
Langley Allbritton (🇺🇸 USA) - AI Tech Club
Jenny Boavista (🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇺🇸 USA) - Systems, Projects, & Intelligence
✍🏼Recent articles by our newly added writers
(grouped by the primary Category chosen by the writer on their self-nomination form - this is where their articles will appear in our weekly digests)
Business & Strategy (4)
The 2026 AI Reset: Why Adoption, Trust, and Workflow Design Matter More Than Technology
In The Strategy Signal • by Maribeth Martorana • 0d ago (2026-01-03 15:01 UTC)
9 likes • 3 comments • 1 restacks • 1,379 words
Stop Copy-Pasting Prompts. Start Building Your Own Prompting Brain
In The Real Growth Lab • by Monashree Rath • 2d ago (2026-01-01 05:42 UTC)
2 likes • 1 restacks • 3,231 words
The Elusive Quest for AGI
In Systems, Projects, & Intelligence • by Jenny Boavista • 4d ago (2025-12-30 19:45 UTC)
4 likes • 2,087 words
From Curiosity to Respect: How NotebookLM Changed the Way I Think About Knowledge
In AI Tech Club • by Langley Allbritton • 2d ago (2026-01-01 20:07 UTC)
608 words
Data & Analytics (1)
Exams in the Age of AI: What Are We Really Testing?
In Next in Data • by Next in Data • 11d ago (2025-12-23 17:02 UTC)
4 likes • 4 restacks • 580 words
Design & Creative Arts (1)
The Goldilocks Problem: Why No Single AI Image Model Does It All
In Lyka Saint • by Lyka Saint • 9d ago (2025-12-25 19:15 UTC)
4 likes • 2 comments • 1 restacks • 1,264 words
Education & Learning (1)
Is Your Clinic’s New AI Tool Safe For Your Patients?
In MedTechxHeart • by Dr. Gigi Magan • 18d ago (2025-12-16 14:01 UTC)
7 likes • 1 restacks • 1,285 words
Ethics & Society (2)
The Architecture of Agency: Redirecting Latent Space Through the Dignity Protocol
In Eden • by AlgorithmicPeacebuilding • 5d ago (2025-12-29 16:43 UTC)
3 likes • 1 comments • 1 restacks • 785 words
The New Scramble for Africa: How AI Companies Are Repeating Colonial Extraction Patterns
In Equitable Futures • by Fadumo Osman • 4d ago (2025-12-30 17:01 UTC)
1 likes • 1,359 words
Other/Multiple AI Applications (1)
Obedience by Design
In The Neuro-Techno Witch • by Maggie Vale • 1d ago (2026-01-02 21:29 UTC)
2 likes • 1 comments • 1 restacks • 2,080 words
Relationships (2)
When AI Conversations Go Wrong
In AI Conversation Design • by AI Conversation Design • 1d ago (2026-01-02 20:02 UTC)
2 likes • 2 restacks • 2,231 words
Hearing from organizations about this moment...
In The Weaving Field • by Joanne Kerrigan • 3d ago (2025-12-31 13:38 UTC)
1 restacks • 206 words
Science & Research (1)
2026 New Year’s Resolutions
In Hollie C. White • by Hollie C. White • 1d ago (2026-01-02 23:22 UTC)
2 likes • 1 restacks • 664 words
Writing & Language (1)
No Two Alike: Snowflake Equations for the New Year
In trompelart’s Substack • by Trompe l'Art • 3d ago (2025-12-31 11:40 UTC)
566 words
📝Directory Notes
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Grateful to be included in the SheWritesAI directory and to Karen Smiley for building such a thoughtful community.
Honored to be listed among the newly added writers and to see The 2026 AI Reset featured.
My writing comes from years of working with leaders trying to move past AI hype and into real adoption by focusing on trust, workflow design, and how AI actually fits into daily work.
Looking forward to learning from and connecting with this group.
Thank you very much for including me in your directory and looking forward to be a part of this community! 🙌🏻