Education Staff

Sarah Bouchie: Director

Sarah currently serves as the director for the education unit and provides technical and programmatic leadership to the basic and girls' education unit. Sarah comes to CARE after having worked for several NGOs, managing education programs and partnerships in Africa, Asia and the United States. Sarah possesses sector knowledge in adult literacy, civic education, community participation, early childhood development, gender empowerment, integration of anti-bias and tolerance in the classroom and teacher development.

Joyce Adolwa: Senior Technical Advisor

Joyce is a graduate in community development and holds a master's degree in public health, as well as a post-graduate diploma in business administration. She has strong experience in international development specifically in the public health arena; designing, implementing and monitoring HIV, education, orphans and vulnerable children and early childhood development programs. Her experience includes program management, proposal development, capacity building, application of various research methodologies, grants management and partnership development. Joyce provides technical assistance to country offices primarily focusing on the design and implementation of the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative, and the application of cross-sectoral approaches to education programming.

Stephanie Baric: Senior Education Advisor

Stephanie Baric is senior advisor in the basic and girls' education (BGE) unit at CARE USA and is responsible for advancing the strategies of Power Within, a global program which supports the completion of primary school and the development leadership skills among marginalized girls in developing countries. She is also the project manager for the Power to Lead Alliance, a USAID-funded adolescent girls' leadership program being implemented in six countries. The Power to Lead Alliance brings new resources, ideas, technology and programming from corporate partners, governments and non-governmental organizations to support education with greater empowerment and leadership opportunities for girls. Prior to joining the BGE unit, she worked as assistant country director for CARE West Bank and Gaza managing programs in civil society strengthening and governance, women's empowerment, water and sanitation, food security and livelihoods, and health. Stephanie completed temporary assignments as assistant country director for CARE Tanzania and CARE Egypt. Her technical expertise includes education, governance, and gender programming. Before joining CARE, Stephanie worked with the International Rescue Committee resettling refugees in the United States and with the United Nations Public Information Office during the conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina producing television programs.

Lucy Strickland: Technical Advisor

Lucy Strickland is a technical advisor in the basic and girls' education unit, providing technical assistance and support to country offices within the regions of Western Africa, Francophone East Africa, Middle East, NW Balkans, Southern Sudan and Haiti.

She comes to CARE with extensive field experience in international development and education programs across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Her professional experience and interest lies in educational management and planning, community participation, bilingual models of education, curriculum reform and development. She also has experience in donor contract management and proposal development, having worked with Oxfam Great Britian in Ethiopia and Haiti on their emergency response programs.

Lotte Renault: Technical Advisor

Lotte Renault is the technical advisor for Latin America, Southern Africa and Timor Leste. Her previous experience includes work in research, teaching, teachers training, media development, impact measurement, capacity building, education in emergencies and health education. Lotte's background is in life sciences and education, holding a master's degree on physiology and a Ph.D. in sciences.

Erin Kennedy: Technical Advisor for Advocacy

Erin Kennedy is a technical advisor for advocacy for the basic and girls' education unit at CARE USA. In this role, Ms. Kennedy focuses much of her time around representation and advocacy, both in the United States and in CARE's country offices. Ms. Kennedy's work involves analyzing policy, advocating on key policies and representing CARE on Capitol Hill, the administration and working with CARE's country offices on their advocacy strategies. Her current issue portfolio includes adolescent girls' issues which includes basic girls' education and leadership opportunities, child marriage prevention issues and gender-based violence issues.

Prior to joining CARE, Ms. Kennedy was the director of legislative affairs at a small federal affairs firm and a legislative assistant to a member of Congress on Capitol Hill. Ms. Kennedy holds a bachelor's degree from Duquesne University in psychology and a master's degree in public policy from American University.

Charu Goyle: Strategic Partnerships Coordinator

Charu oversees donor relations and strategic partnerships for the Power Within program. Charu has experience in conducting education policy research, training educators on working with international students, coordinating youth education programs for refugees, teaching at the secondary level and managing complex grants. She has a M.A. in international development from American University's School of International Service and a B.A. in international studies from The Ohio State University. She also holds a graduate certificate in secondary teaching from American University's School of Education. Prior to joining the basic and girls' education unit, Charu worked with CARE's resource development communications team and the CARE International liaison unit. She has also worked with an international education institution and human rights organization.

Jonathan Miller: Senior Education Advisor

Jonathan is a senior advisor in CARE's basic and girls' education unit (BGE)where he has oversight of two sub-teams that support the operational efforts of the unit. The overall purpose of these operations teams is to ensure that technical support for education programming in CARE country offices is consistent, and that technical engagement is strategically aligned to BGE's standards of program quality. Jonathan worked for many years as a classroom educator before moving into international relief and development. He has managed education programs for CARE, the International Rescue Committee and UNICEF, supporting rights-based approaches and the development of academic, workplace and life skills for children, youth and adult learners. His overseas' experience encompasses efforts in conflict, post-conflict and development settings, and spans Central America, West Africa, Eastern Europe, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Camber Brand: Senior Project Coordinator

Camber Brand serves as the senior project coordinator supporting the Power Within Signature Program for the basic and girls' education unit. Camber provides overall management to the Power Within program portfolio and shares strategic guidance in support of country offices on key projects, knowledge management, and partnerships to effectively manage their education work. Prior to her work with the basic and girls' education unit, she worked with the Asia regional management unit liaising with CARE's country offices in the Asia region and also supported CARE's HIV/AIDS unit. Camber spent two years in rural village in Côte d'Ivoire as a Peace Corps volunteer, serving her community through health education programs. She completed her undergraduate degree in business administration and French at the University of South Carolina.

Amanda Moll: Senior Project Coordinator

Amanda Moll serves as the senior project coordinator supporting the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative for the basic and girls' education unit. Amanda provides overall management to the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative portfolio and shares strategic guidance in support of country offices on key projects, knowledge management, and partnerships to effectively manage their education work. Before joining the basic and girls' education unit, she worked in politics as well as with a human rights organization. Amanda also has experience teaching and providing supplemental instruction in both high school and college settings, in addition to working on curriculum development. She came to CARE with a bachelor's degree from Berry College in government and secondary education and holds a M.A. in international and comparative politics from Georgia State University.

Amy Yvonne Ngurukie: Program Associate

Yvonne serves as the program associate by providing overall support for the unit as well as the coordinating and managing of interns. Before joining the basic and girls' education unit, she worked for a faith-based non-profit organization that focused on mentoring youth and graduate students in parish ministry, and volunteered for the Rape Crisis Center and Women's Center for Domestic Violence. She completed her degree in psychology and a minor in sociology with honors from Georgia State University with a focus on gender, and she also is a certified litigation paralegal. She is a member of the Psi Chi psychology honor society and Phi Kappa Phi honor society.

Ginny Kintz, Technical Advisor

Ginny serves as a technical advisor for education and is primarily responsible for supporting country offices in English-speaking East Africa and Asia. She has a master's degree in early childhood education and has done post-graduate work in curriculum and administration and multicultural education. She has been a classroom teacher and teacher trainer. Ginny spent six years with the education program in CARE Timor-Leste prior to joining the basic and girls' education unit, and has also lived and worked in Tanzania and Liberia.

Esker Copeland: Project Coordinator

Esker Copeland is responsible for the oversight and coordination of the Innovation through Sport: Promoting Leaders, Empowering Youth project, which focuses on girls' leadership development through the use of sport in Bangladesh, Egypt, Kenya and Tanzania. Before joining the basic and girls' education unit, he served as the coordinator of CARE's global internship and fellowship program. He comes to CARE with multi-sectoral experience implementing workforce development, leadership and life skills programs for youth in the United States as well as a background conducting research in primary health care, maternal and child health in Africa and the Caribbean. Esker holds a master's degree in international affairs and development from Clark Atlanta University and a master's in public health from Morehouse School of Medicine.