Built by someone who's been in your seat.
ABOUT
I'm Gabe Radi — an Eritrean-American educator in Philadelphia. I came to the U.S. in 1988 on a college scholarship, and I've spent most of my life since at the intersection of two worlds, figuring out how to navigate both.
Nebai started in 2020 with a single Zoom call and a seven-year-old named Beniam.
When Beniam needed someone on the other end of a call, I showed up — three days a week, then five, then for his mother and seven other families who found their way to that same Friday group. None of them were invisible to me. None of them disappeared without me noticing.
Before I built anything, I upgraded my computer to 32GB of RAM and kept an old laptop as a backup. That was my first infrastructure investment — because if the connection drops, nothing else matters. I think of it as the cost of keeping human connection stable.
Online learning too often drops people into a digital ghost town — courses everywhere, community nowhere. I built Nebai to be the opposite of that.
There’s always someone at the front desk here. That someone is me.
Who Nebai is for
Adult learners returning to education
It’s never too late, and you won’t be doing it alone.
Anyone intimidated by technology
Clear, patient, no-jargon courses — start with no account at all.
Diaspora & immigrant communities
Taught by someone who has navigated two worlds himself.
Parents of young learners
The same care that started with one family on a Friday call.