Jamai Blivin

Jamai Blivin is the President and CEO of Innovate+ Educate and CEO of the NM STEM Network.  In 2009, Jamai approached Jami Grindatto of Intel Corporation to launch the non-profit, believing that industry alignment for STEM and workforce development was critical to solving the issues the U.S. faces in developing an innovation economy.  Jami agreed to form the organization and the first board meeting was held in New Mexico in April 2009.  Since that time, Innovate+Educate has become a leading voice across States for industry alignment to advance STEM education.

Jamai has consulted and worked extensively with State programs, ITCompanies, Higher Ed Institutions, and K-12 Systems to promote STEM education and industry partnerships in STEM. Blivin spent 17 years in the investment banking field before retiring to pursue her passion for education and industry partnerships. After middle school substitute teaching in Little Rock, Arkansas and Durham, North Carolina for five years, she assumed the position as Education Foundation Director at the North Carolina Technology Association in Raleigh, NC and led the education efforts statewide to advance STEM education with industry partners. She returned to Santa Fe in 2008 (where she grew up) to take a position at NMSU under the New Mexico Learning Network, serving as Outreach Director before launching Innovate+Educate.

Jamai is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and educational conferences sharing her passion and vision for meaningful industry partnerships to advance STEM and workforce development at the State level.  Since she launched I+E, she has been a speaker at events for the U. S. Department of Education, Intel Corporation’s Visionary Conference, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices STEM, the Council of State Governments, and the Massachusetts’ STEM Council convening to launch the STEM public-private partnership in Massachusetts..  In 2010, Innovate+ Educate was nominated for and received the New Mexico Business Weekly’s “Small Business Heavyweights” award for their success in developing the first public-private partnership in New Mexico to advance STEM and workforce.

Jamai holds a BSBA and MBA in Finance from the University of Arkansas. She resides with her husband and children in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  She gardens in her spare time.