Growing up in rural Virginia, technology opened doors I didn't know existed. That experience never left me — and it's the reason I do this work.

I'm Anisha Carter, a product strategist and consultant for mission-driven organizations. My career started in product at Intuit and TaxAct, where I built and led XpertHelp, TaxAct's virtual assistance feature. But even then, I was finding ways to stay connected to community — founding the Spark Mentorship and Scholarship Program to support students in my hometown after graduation, and later Project Lytework, a wellness initiative bringing culturally-approachable care to BIPOC communities in Oakland.

At Stanford's Graduate School of Business, where I earned my MBA with a certificate in Public Management and Social Innovation, I deepened my thinking about what it means to design for people that systems too often overlook. That led me to the Community Economic Defense Project, where I served as Chief of Staff and product leader and built SwiftAid — an AI-powered housing assistance platform designed to prevent evictions for millions of at-risk households — right in the middle of a moment when generative AI was reshaping everything nonprofits thought they knew.

That experience is the heart of what I do now. Through AniCo., I help nonprofits and social enterprises build AI-enabled products responsibly — with the same rigor I developed in SaaS, and the same accountability to community I've carried my whole career.

I also hold a degree in Computer Information Systems from Hampton University.