Education Staff

Joyce Adolwa: Technical Advisor, Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative

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.

L'Erin Asantewaa: Program Associate

L'Erin Asantewaa provides support to the core team, Power Within, Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative and Innovation through Sport: Promoting Leaders, Empowering Youth programs. She has a background in comparative women's studies, and joins CARE with multi-sectoral experience developing and facilitating leadership and empowerment programs for historically-underserved girls and women.

Stephanie Baric: Education Advisor

Stephanie Baric is responsible for advancing the strategies of Power Within.She is also the project manager for the Power to Lead Alliance. Before joining the basic and girls' education 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. She holds a master's in media studies from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

Sarah Bouchie: Director, Girls' Education

Sarah currently serves as the Director for the Education Unit and provides technical and programmatic leadership to the BGE 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.

Pete Cronin: Education Technical Advisor

Peter provides technical, programmatic and managerial support to the Power Within program. He holds a doctorate in international educational development, and has experience working on several education projects in Eastern Europe, the Pacific Islands, South Asia and West Africa.

Kumkum Kashiparekh: Organizational Learning Advisor

Kumkum is responsible for the oversight and management of learning strategies and basic and girl's eduction (BGE)unit's information resources for analysis, research and knowledge creation. Kumkum also provides support and guidance to the education regional advisory committees as they progressively shift from information sharing to knowledge networks and their work as it relates to program quality. Additionally, she is the editor of the BGE bulletin, a monthly research brief for education development and policy changes and resources and publications related to the education sector, as well as covering BGE & CARE country office updates. Kumkum has a master's degree in health care policy and administration from Mercer University.

Margaret Meagher: Senior Technical Advisor, Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative

Margaret Meagher manages a 20-year longitudinal, evidence-based initiative targeting education for the most marginalized girls across developing country contexts. She has extensive experience in international development and education programs, including gendered and child-centered approaches, research, analysis, monitoring and evaluation, experiential learning, curriculum development, impact measurement and international equivalency assessments. She also has extensive teaching, training and mentorship experiences with a variety of population groups; has lived and/or worked in East Africa, Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia; has jointly authored a language and culture teacher training manual; and speaks several languages.

Jonathan Miller: Senior Advisor

Jonathan is Senior Advisor in the basic and girls' education unit where he leads the core team. The purpose of this team is to support the establishment of consistent standards for CARE's core education programming across country offices. He worked for many years as a classroom educator before moving to international relief and development. He has managed education programs for CARE, the IRC, and UNICEF, supporting rights-based approaches to the development of academic, workplace and life skills for children, young peopleand adult learners.  His field experience encompasses efforts in conflict, post-conflict and development settings, and spans Central America, West Africa, Eastern Europe, South Asia and Southeast Asia. 

Amanda Moll: Program Associate, Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative

Amanda Moll provides coordination for the four Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative (PCTFI) initiatives and manages the production of all PCTFI publications in addition to overseeing the PCTFI Scholarship Fund. She comes to CARE with a background in political science and secondary education and holds a M.A. in international and comparative politics. Before joining the Basic and Girls' Education Unit, she worked in British politics as well as with a human rights organization. Amanda also has experience teaching and providing supplemental instruction for both high school and college classes, in addition to working on curriculum development. 

Maria Muller: Program Coordinator, Innovation through Sport: Promoting Leaders, Empowering Youth

Maria manages and coordinates the implementation of this girls' leadership program through the use of sport in Bangladesh, Egypt, Kenya and Tanzania. Maria also leads CARE's efforts on the Moving Forward project, a sport- and play-based program to assist youth in recovering from trauma in emergency settings.

Ted Neill: Peter Bell Fellow

While pursuing his master's degree in global health at Emory University, Ted became part of the CARE team as the early childhood development (ECD) student intern. He participated in the initial development of the CARE 5 x 5 ECD model and provided technical support to ECD teams in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and South Africa. Currently, he is coordinating the Interagency Taskforce on the ECD Essential Package for HIV contexts. In addition to emphasizing rigorous methods of monitoring and evaluating holistic care, Ted is a strong advocate of a rights-based approach to orphans and vulnerable children's services. Ted holds a masters in public health degree in community health and development from Rollins School of Public Health at Emory and a bachelor of arts degree from Georgetown University.

Pamela Young: Senior Technical Advisor, Orphans and Vulnerable Children's Education

Pamela Young manages and provides technical support on cross sector programming to country offices on education and HIV and AIDS, early childhood development, sexual and reproductive health, and school related gender based violence in development and refugee contexts. She is also the CARE International representative on the United Nations' AIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Education. Pamela has a doctorate in international and comparative education, and her work experiences include managing programs in Asia, East Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Europe.