Aarifa Gora

Middle School Educator and AI in Education Strategist

Aarifa Gora is an AI in Education Strategist and Apple Distinguished Educator based in Saudi Arabia. She works with middle-school learners and educators to design learning experiences that integrate artificial intelligence, digital literacy and pedagogy in meaningful and ethical ways. Her work focuses on helping schools move beyond isolated tool use toward sustainable, system-level implementation of AI that supports critical thinking, student agency and teacher effectiveness. With experience teaching across international curricula in the Gulf region, she brings a practitioner’s perspective to leadership conversations about educational innovation. She regularly facilitates professional development for teachers and school leaders, supporting alignment with future-skills agendas and Vision 2030 priorities, and she is particularly interested in how AI can enhance learning design while preserving the human elements essential to education.