Aubrey Blanche-Sarellano is The Mathpath (Math Nerd + Empath), VP of Equitable Operations at Culture Amp, and a startup investor & advisor, and board member. Through all her work, she seeks to question, reimagine, and redesign the systems and practices that surround us to ensure that all people can access equitable opportunities and build a better world. Her work is undergirded by her training in social scientific methods and grounded in the fundamental dignity and value of every person. Her professional expertise covers a broad range of equitable organizational operations, from talent & culture to accessible product development, responsible AI, and communications & media. Her work to build equity into the core of business includes current focuses in environmental, social, and governance issues; people operations; and AI governance, and DEI product development and deployment.
She is an advisor and investor to a variety of companies seeking to build a more just world, including OnRamp, Seed&Spark, Stark, and Pivot Diversity. Her work has been featured in Wired, the Wall Street Journal, the Australian Financial Review, USA Today, Re/Code, First Round Review, and more. She also has previous academic affiliations with Stanford and Northwestern, and has lectured at universities including UC Berekeley, MIT, and Columbia. Despite the accolades listed here, she asks that you engage with her work to judge her competence: traditional proxies of merit and/or competence help reinforce the systems that keep incredible people from the opportunities they deserve.