The Instituto Ayrton Senna (English: Ayrton Senna Institute; IAS) is a Brazilian non-governmental organization, intended to help create opportunities for human development to young Brazilians in cooperation with businesses, governments, municipalities, schools, universities and NGOs.

[1] The organization has since then invested US$80 million in social programs and actions in cooperation with other businesses and NGOs.

[6] Instituto Ayrton Senna signed two international partnerships with Singapore and Finland involving science, reading, and mathematics.

[9][10][11][12] She also helped to found and chaired the technical committee of the think tank "Todos pela Educação" (Everybody for Education).

[16] In 2018, she talked with then president-elect Jair Bolsonaro to head the Ministry of Education, but the deal was unsuccessful.