Founder Feature: Andrea Jordan on Building Empathy Into AI

Winner of Founders Live Seattle in October 2025, Andrea Jordan is a trauma- and resilience-informed social worker, birthwork advocate, and humanist with more than a decade of experience spanning direct practice, higher education, and national healthcare policy.

She is the Founder and CEO of empathium, an AI-powered simulation and coaching platform built to bring humanity back to technology—helping people, both professionally and personally, navigate the hardest human conversations with skill, empathy, and self-awareness.

Andrea’s work bridges emotional intelligence and innovation, challenging how we design, measure, and scale care in the age of AI.

Read her recent experience before and after pitching at, then winning, Founders Live Seattle:

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