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DJMP Institute · Bronzeville, Chicago

The communities being shaped by AI
should be the ones building it.

Most AI is built for people who can recover from a mistake.
DJMP builds it for the people who can't.

Workforce pathways. Funding intelligence. Disability-inclusive navigation. Real outcomes for the communities existing infrastructure has been slowest to serve — governed end-to-end by the Trustworthy Civic AI Framework™. That ticker above is not a demo. It is the proof of concept running in live production.

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The Human Element

I began my career watching students who worked the late shift still show up to my mathematics classroom — students who had every intellectual capacity to build the AI systems that now make decisions about their lives, but who were systematically taught to consume technology, not create it.

Martin Pieters Founder & Executive Director · DJMP Institute · Architect of TCAF™ · doctoral researcher in AI governance
That conviction — that Black and Brown students have always had the talent, and only ever lacked the resources — is the foundation of every program, every AI system, and every dollar DJMP Institute has ever spent.
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Elite Team. Lean by Design.
Every Dollar Goes to Mission.

Martin Pieters
Martin Pieters
Founder & Executive Director · Lead AI Architect · Architect of TCAF™
· Architect of the Trustworthy Civic AI Framework™ (TCAF™)  ·  Lead AI Architect
· doctoral researcher in AI governance  ·  A leading U.S. research university
· M.S., Chemical Engineering  ·  Howard University (HBCU)
· 20-Year Tenured Faculty  ·  Mathematics & Data Science  ·  City Colleges of Chicago

Architect of the Trustworthy Civic AI Framework™ — the first integrated governance architecture for agentic AI in high-stakes civic service environments. 20-year tenured faculty at City Colleges of Chicago. Chemical engineer by training (M.S., Howard University), asked by Rev. Jesse Jackson to solve the technology pipeline problem for Black and Brown communities. Built a Saturday STEM program from scratch, designed the Stay Safe App with teenagers navigating gun violence, placed students at Yale, Northwestern, NIH, and CBS News. Now a doctoral researcher in AI governance — building the first empirically grounded framework for trustworthy agentic AI, and running DJMP Institute full-time while doing it.

AWS Machine Learning University Faculty Fellow · Tuskegee Symposium 2026
Amazon-HBCU AI/ML Educator Fellow 2025–2026
Visiting Research Scientist · Illinois Tech BME + University of Chicago Medical Center · AHA Grant AHA 19AIREA34450209 · Host: Dr. Keigo Kawaji
Northwestern MRSEC RET · AI/Deep Learning for Materials Science · Ford Motor Company · Dr. Wei Chen Lab · 2022
Northwestern MRSEC RET · Kinetic Modeling of Hydrolysis Chemistry · Chemical Engineering · Broadbelt Research Group · 2015
ISMRM Abstract · Equal Contribution · Kawaji, Goes, Pieters et al. · IIT · UChicago · King's College London · Quest University · Sedona 2019
IIT Summer Program Faculty · Machine Learning Instructor · Alongside Stanford, Northwestern, UChicago, King's College London Faculty · 2019
MSEIP Grant — $750,000 · U.S. Dept. of Education · 14 winners nationwide
Fortune 500 Partners: Microsoft · Boeing · Amazon · Google
STEM Director — Rainbow PUSH Coalition

The intellectual lineage of this work runs through the HBCU tradition — Howard University, where Martin Pieters earned his M.S. in Chemical Engineering; Tuskegee University, through the 2026 AWS Machine Learning University Symposium; and Rainbow PUSH Coalition, where that work was first asked of him. DJMP Institute builds AI infrastructure for the communities those institutions were founded to serve. This is not incidental. It is the mission.

Howard University · Tuskegee University · Rainbow PUSH Coalition · The intellectual lineage of this work
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Where This Began
Where This All Began

The Kids Asked:
"How Do We Get Home Safely?"

"We know it's not a talent deficiency. It's a resource deficiency."

Martin Pieters · ABC7 Chicago · Rainbow PUSH 46th Annual Convention · 2017
2017Stay Safe App
→
2021DJMP Institute Founded
→
2026PathwayAI

That 2017 heat map became the proof of concept. TCAF™ — the Trustworthy Civic AI Framework™ — is the standard it grew into. PathwayAI is its first instantiation. The logic never changed. Only the architecture did.

The same team. The same conviction. See who's behind it below. ↓

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Where We Work · Bronzeville, Chicago

A century of Black
economic power.
Continued here.

National Register of Historic Places
Chicago Landmark · 1998
Black Metropolis Bronzeville Historic District
First professional space for Black Chicagoans · 1922
DJMP Institute · Suite 300
Overton Hygienic Building
3619–3627 S. State Street · Bronzeville, Chicago, IL 60609

In 1922, Anthony Overton — born into slavery, educated as a lawyer, and determined to build — commissioned the Overton Hygienic Building at 3619 S. State Street in Bronzeville. It became the first building in Chicago to make professional office space available to Black lawyers, doctors, and architects. It housed the Douglass National Bank, the first nationally chartered African American-owned bank in the United States. It was the anchor of the Black Metropolis — Chicago's own Black Wall Street — and a monument, as its contemporaries called it, to "Negro thrift and industry."

One hundred years later, DJMP Institute operates from Suite 300 of that same building — now a Chicago Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places — building AI-powered economic infrastructure for the same communities Overton served.

A building that stood as the center of Black economic self-determination a century ago is now home to an organization building AI-powered economic infrastructure for the next century. That is not coincidence. That is continuity.
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