Asha Owens
Co-Founder & CEO
BESTFIT, INC.
Asha co-founded BestFit during her time at Teachers College (Columbia University), where she earned her Master's degree in Instructional Technology & Media. Since graduation, Asha and her Co-Founder have won NYU's Algorithm for Change (Ideation Tier), been named Fellows at 4.0 Schools, and graduated from Monarq Incubator.
Asha is a product engineer and full-stack web developer committed to building equitable, community-centered education technologies. She has helped design a virtual-reality experience at the American Museum of Natural History, coordinated Brown University's summer program dedicated to empowering young women in computer science, and was awarded Palantir's Women in Engineering Scholarship.
Asha is a member of /dev/color, a founder in Dorm Room Fund's Blueprint Project, a finalist for the 2020 Camelback Education Fellowship, and was named one of 28 Emerging & Inspirational Black Leaders in Edtech by LearnLaunch. She also holds a B.S. in Neuroscience from Brown University.