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Lekhana Reddy

Lekhana Reddy is a data and AI educator who founded Storytelling by Data, a platform that simplifies AI and data science education for non-technical audiences. After an MBA at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master's in data analytics at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, she worked as a data analyst, a business intelligence analyst and a senior data governance analyst at ServiceLink. She started Storytelling by Data on Instagram in 2021, created a course on data roles, and by May 2024 had moved from her corporate job to full-time content creation and mentoring. In January 2025, Edelman named her to its list of 50 AI Creators You Need To Know, citing more than 150,000 followers across Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. Since January 2025, she writes Build Your Skill Story, a newsletter that helps data professionals build portfolios and master AI tools.

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  1. By 2017

    From an MBA to data analytics

    After an MBA in logistics, materials and supply chain management at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, she volunteers for a nonprofit, handles its social media analytics and falls in love with analytics. She goes on to a master's in data analytics at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. In 2017, she starts her career as a data analyst at BlastPoint, working on databases and Python automation.

  2. 2018–2020

    Business intelligence analyst

    From 2018 to 2020, she works as a business intelligence analyst, building KPIs, dashboards and predictive models, including time-series forecasting algorithms.

  3. 2020

    Data governance at ServiceLink

    In 2020, she moves into data governance at ServiceLink, where she sets up workflows and data dictionaries and improves data literacy among teams. As a senior data governance analyst, she helps the organization secure and organize its data, automates data processes and migrates systems to Azure.

  4. 2021

    Starting Storytelling by Data

    In 2021, she founds Storytelling by Data and begins teaching on Instagram how to move into data science and analytics; the platform aims to simplify AI and data science education for non-technical audiences. She sees few women teaching other data professionals and sets out to bring more women into the field, mentoring more than 700 aspiring data professionals.

  5. 2022–2023

    A course on data roles

    By December 2022, she has created and sold a course that explains the different roles in data, mentored more than 1,500 professionals moving into data careers and built a community of over 115,000 across her channels. In March 2023, she talks about data storytelling and women in STEM on the Dallas radio show Life Beats with Sirisha.

  6. 2024

    Full-time content creation

    In May 2024, she tells the D-Hustlers podcast about moving from a corporate job to full-time content creation and mentoring as a creator focused on data and AI. The Jeff Crilley Show introduces her in June 2024 as founder and CEO of Storytelling by Data, a data person who found herself an influencer.

  7. January 2025

    On Edelman's AI creators list

    In January 2025, Edelman names her to its list of 50 AI Creators You Need To Know. It credits her with more than 150,000 followers across Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn since 2021, and with helping over 300 professionals move into AI roles.

  8. Since January 2025

    The Build Your Skill Story newsletter

    She starts the Substack newsletter Build Your Skill Story in January 2025 to help data professionals build portfolios, master AI tools and land jobs. In a March 2025 post, she writes that a project portfolio won her first data analyst job and later helped her break into AI roles.

Career

  1. From 2021Storytelling by DataFounder and CEO
  2. 2018–2020ServiceLinkBusiness intelligence analyst, Senior data governance analyst
  3. From 2017BlastPointData analyst

Education

  1. Indiana University of PennsylvaniaMBA
  2. Harrisburg University of Science and TechnologyMaster's in data analytics

From the biography.

  1. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  2. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIWe estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  3. 43% of living people shaping AI work outside their country of birthWe estimate that 43% of living people shaping AI work outside their country of birth (520 of 1,198 people with known birth and employment countries).
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionWe estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.

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  1. Lekhana Reddy - Data Analytics & AI Educator businessabc.net. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. The Power of Storytelling with Data: Insights and Inspiration- Lekhana Reddy buzzsprout.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Meet Lekhana Reddy voyagedallas.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Lekhana Reddy's Speaker Profile @ Sessionize sessionize.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. 12 - Storytelling with Data - Lekhana Reddy by D-Hustlers : Entrepreneurial Stories of Desi Immigrants creators.spotify.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Lekhana Reddy, Founder & CEO of Storytelling by Data | The Jeff Crilley Show share.transistor.fm. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. Edelman Releases The 'AI Creators You Need To Know' List hedgethink.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. Coming soon - by Lekhana Reddy - Build Your Skill Story lekhanar.substack.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  9. About - Build Your Skill Story lekhanar.substack.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  10. How I Landed My First Data Job (And Later Broke Into AI) – Without the “Perfect” Resume lekhanar.substack.com. Checked 20 October 2026.