Peter Gault
Founder & Executive Director at Quill.org
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Gault is the founder and executive director of Quill.org, a nonprofit that leverages machine learning and NLP to deliver free, research-backed writing tools to low-income K–12 students and teachers. Over 12+ years he has scaled the organization to reach millions of students and partnered with Stanford and Harvard researchers while securing grants from major funders such as the Gates Foundation and Google.org. He combines product leadership, team coordination, and fundraising with a background in philosophy, history, and politics from Bates College, bringing a humanistic lens to edtech design. Notably, Quill is open source and community-driven, producing AI tools that not only auto-grade sentences but aim to teach higher-order skills like thesis development and evidence-based argumentation.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy History Politics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy History Politics at Bates CollegeHistory Political Science, History Political Science at Choate Rosemary Hall
Github Skills (36)
quill10
rails10
mono10
js10
edtech10
react10
signal9
learning-management-system9
javascript9
ruby9
swift8
chat8
languagetool8
codebase8
messenger8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Empirical-org-Archive/Documentation
May 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:402 commits in 4 months
empirical-org/Empirical-Wordpress
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
wordpresswordpress-pluginquill
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