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.
Kumkum Kashiparekh: Organizational Learning and Knowledge Manager
Kumkum is responsible for the management of the BGE unit's information resources for analysis, learning, research and knowledge creation; as well as editing the monthly BGE unit electronic publication, the BGE Bulletin. Kumkum promotes dialogue and collaborations between key coalitions by playing an active role in the advocacy efforts for the Global Campaign for Education. Kumkum has a master's degree in health care policy and administration from Mercer University.
Margaret Meagher: Senior Technical Advisor, Girls' Education
Margaret serves as team leader of the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative and comes to CARE with extensive experience in international development and education programs, including research, analysis, monitoring and evaluation, experiential learning, curriculum development, international equivalency assessments. She also has extensive teaching and mentorship experiences with a variety of audiences. She has lived and/or worked in East Africa, Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia, and has jointly authored a cutting-edge language and culture teacher training manual.
Dr. Geeta Menon: Senior Technical Advisor
Dr. Menon is responsible for providing technical assistance to CARE country offices around the world, especially country offices with emergency education programs in conflict and/or post-conflict situations. Geeta is also CARE's primary contact for EQUIP1's education in crisis setting component and INEE's Minimum Standards initiatives. A graduate in child development, a teacher trainer with master's and doctorate degrees in education, Geeta has had significant experience providing leadership and guidance for CARE India's education sector and working on a range of project designs in the area of pre-school education, primary education, girls' education, child labor and school health. She has also participated in the development of proposals integrating different sectors including adolescent health and education, micro finance and education, education in earthquake rehabilitation, and education and HIV/AIDS. A good testimony of her sound institutional development processes is the evolution of the UDDAAN project at Hardoi, India.
John Trew: Senior Technical Advisor in Child Labor and Education
John has studied and worked in the field of child labor his entire career thus far. Over the last seven years John has devoted his energy and commitment to working on programs related to hazardous child labor: children exploited through armed conflict, child sex workers, domestic labor, migrant child labor and children working in agricultural production. John has researched and published on child labor, facilitated international workshops, and worked with community groups and various levels of governments, U.N. agencies, nongovernmental organizations, civil society organizations and the private sector on a range of dimensions of this portfolio, such as labor legislation and human rights. In his most recent position, with the U.S. Department of Labor-funded CIRCLE project at Winrock International, based in Washington, D.C., John served as the project technical and operations manager.
Pamela Young: Senior Technical Advisor, Education and HIV/AIDS
Pamela Young provides technical support to country offices and the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative on education and HIV/AIDS. 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 CIS and Europe. Her sector knowledge includes gender empowerment, community participation, minority education, curriculum development, informal education, teacher development, community participation, research and education policy and advocacy.
