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National & four-year awards
- QuestBridge Scholarship
- Posse Scholarship
- BigFuture Scholarship
College • Career • Scholarships • AI
Future-ready pathways start here.
Personalized college, career, and scholarship guidance—plus the digital skills students need to stand out.
Student outcomeMy Future. My Impact.A plan students can own—and show.
Student founder story19-second highlight
Student success spotlight
Yusuf Kebbeh earned a scholarship to Swarthmore—and built an idea with impact.
AI Forward Life is proud to highlight Yusuf's college, scholarship, and student-founder journey. In addition to his Swarthmore College scholarship, he earned additional local scholarships.
SwarthmoreCollege scholarship
Local awardsAdditional scholarships
FounderStudent-built MindNYC
Yusuf founded MindNYC, a student-built resource designed to make mental-wellness information and support easier to discover.
Explore Yusuf's MindNYC App
Student successMorris Academy for Collaborative Studies
Real students. Real outcomes.
Three students. Limitless potential. Futures built with intention.
AI Forward Life supported Joanne Fagbemi, Yari Becco, and Amberly Cortorreal through the college application and scholarship process. Each student also built websites and apps—turning their ideas, creativity, and skills into proof of what they can do.
Joanne Fagbemi Yari Becco Amberly Cortorreal
Apply with purposeCompete for fundingBuild what's next
Help your students write their next chapterScholarship success
Scholarships students have earned with our support.
AI Forward Life helps students find the right opportunities, strengthen their applications, meet deadlines, and keep pursuing every possible source of funding.
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New York & community awards
- Jay L. Kriegel Memorial Scholarship
- ABENY Gregory Law Scholarship
- ABENY Ethan Zachary Scholarship
- Good Samaritan Scholarship
- New Visions Scholarship
- New Visions Opportunity Scholarship
- New Visions Beattie Scholarship
- Milton Fisher Scholarship
- Bay Plaza Mall Scholarship
- Bronx Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Scholarship
- CSA Scholarship
- Buckash Scholarship
- Bronx Excellence Scholarship
- Christopher Alleyne Future Innovator Scholarship
- Con Edison Scholarship
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Academic & memorial awards
- Nathan and Sidney Young Award
- Jack Berlin Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Math and Science
- Arline Rokuson Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Attendance
- George Rokuson Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Athletics
One connected system
A pathway from uncertainty to action.
College, career, scholarships, and AI skills should not live in separate boxes. We connect them into one plan built around the student.
01Discover
Start with the student
Clarify strengths, interests, goals, academic standing, and the postsecondary options that fit.
02Plan
Build the pathway
Create a realistic action plan covering college, career, financial aid, scholarships, and deadlines.
03Apply
Tell a strong story
Complete applications, essays, résumés, portfolios, and documentation with structure and support.
04Fund
Pursue every dollar
Identify scholarship opportunities, strengthen submissions, and compare financial options carefully.
05Launch
Move forward prepared
Choose a pathway, complete enrollment or onboarding steps, and build the digital skills to stand out.
What we do
Support for the whole future-readiness process.
Students receive practical guidance, useful tools, and the accountability needed to move from aspiration to a real next step.
College + Career
Pathway Strategy
A personalized plan that connects academic progress, best-fit options, career interests, and the next right steps.
- Transcript and readiness review
- College, training, and career pathway research
- Application plan and accountability
- Résumé, interview, and decision support
Scholarships
Funding Strategy
Targeted scholarship guidance that turns a long list of opportunities into an organized, competitive process.
- Opportunity matching and prioritization
- Essay strategy and application review
- Scholarship tracker and deadline plan
- Award comparison and follow-through
AI + Digital Skills
Portfolio Building
Students use AI responsibly to build websites, apps, and digital portfolios that make their ideas and abilities visible.
- Personal portfolio website
- Student-built app or community solution
- Responsible AI and prompt practice
- Project storytelling and presentation
Ways to work together
Choose the support that fits the moment.
Begin with one strategy session or build a longer partnership around applications, scholarships, or a schoolwide program.
Best first step
Get details For students + families
Pathway Strategy Session
A focused advising session to assess where the student is now, identify priorities, and leave with a clear action plan.
Full-process support
Get details For students + families
Senior Success Partnership
Ongoing guidance through college applications, documentation, financial aid milestones, decisions, and matriculation.
Funding focused
Get details For students + families
Scholarship Accelerator
A structured scholarship search and application process with writing feedback, tracking, and accountability.
Custom partnership
Get details For schools + organizations
Future-Ready Pathways Program
Workshops, advising, scholarship systems, data trackers, and AI-powered student projects tailored to your community.
Not sure where to begin? Start with a Pathway Strategy Session. You will leave with priorities, next steps, and a recommendation for the right level of support.
Start Your PathwayFor schools & organizations
Build a future-ready culture—not another disconnected program.
AI Forward Life helps schools strengthen the college and career process students need now, while introducing the digital skills they will need next.
Student Advising
College lists, pathway plans, applications, and matriculation support.
Scholarship Systems
Workshops, trackers, targeted opportunities, and application support.
Career Readiness
Career exploration, résumés, interviews, panels, and work-based learning.
AI Creator Labs
Students and staff build responsible AI tools around real school needs.
AI Build Lab • School leadership
Community school directors became builders.
AI Forward Life worked alongside community school directors to turn everyday school challenges into practical, people-centered tools. Teams moved from identifying a problem to building and presenting working app concepts.
Attendance Support
Tools designed to help teams spot patterns, organize outreach, and respond earlier when students need support.
Parent Engagement
Apps designed to make family communication clearer, more accessible, and easier for school teams to manage.
The goal was not simply to use AI. It was to build something useful for the students, families, and communities school leaders serve every day.Bring the AI Build Lab to Your Team
Build Lab highlightFrom school challenge to working solution.Attendance • Parent engagement • Team design
Student builds
The portfolio is proof.
Each project begins with a real need and becomes visible proof of initiative, creativity, digital skill, and problem solving.
Workshop in action
Students learn AI by building something real.
In this hands-on lab, students worked in teams to turn community needs into app ideas, build early versions, and improve them through feedback.
Student presentation
Watch students present what they built.
This team demonstrates its community-focused app and explains how the idea works after a hands-on AI building session.
Workshop highlight • 40 secondsPromptCrumb
An AI learning tool that moves students beyond the first answer by guiding them through stronger questions and reflection.
- Prompt design
- Learning experience
- Web app
Explore the live project
UAdvocate
A safe practice environment that helps young people prepare, organize their thoughts, and build confidence for advocacy conversations.
- Conversation practice
- Youth voice
- Accessible UX
Explore the live project
Mind NYC
A student-designed resource hub that helps school communities discover approachable mental-wellness information and support.
- Resource design
- Community impact
- Prototyping
Explore the live project
PitchConnect NYC
A platform concept connecting NYC students with opportunities to present ideas, find audiences, and grow as young innovators.
- Opportunity design
- Entrepreneurship
- Product thinking
Explore the live project
About the founder
Experience students can feel. Systems schools can use.
Jmal Chestnut is an experienced college and career advisor who has worked with data and postsecondary systems to help young people turn goals into clear, achievable pathways.
His work brings together hands-on advising, scholarship strategy, family engagement, school partnerships, and responsible AI. The goal is simple: every student should leave with a plan, the support to act on it, and the skills to adapt as the future changes.
College & Career AdvisingExperience Working With DataAI & Digital Learning
Common questions
Start with what you need now.
The future-ready work grows from a strong foundation—not from using technology for its own sake.
Is this only for students applying to four-year colleges?
No. Support can include two-year colleges, workforce training, apprenticeships, certifications, employment, and other postsecondary pathways.
Can families receive scholarship help by itself?
Yes. Scholarship support can be a focused service or part of a broader college and career advising plan.
How does AI fit into the advising process?
AI is used responsibly as a tool for research, organization, iteration, and building—not as a replacement for student voice, judgment, or human guidance.
Can programs be customized for a school?
Yes. School partnerships can combine workshops, individual advising, scholarship systems, staff support, student projects, and outcome tracking.
Your next step
Make it easy to start the conversation.
Families can request college, career, or scholarship support. Schools and partners can share what they want to build. Every inquiry goes directly to Jmal.
Start Appointment RequestOpens the form on this page—no email app needed.Direct emailjmal@aiforwardlife.com