The Jackson Institute Office of Career Development will host a career
conversation with Katie Murphy who is the Senior Technical Advisor for
Early Childhood Development at the International Rescue Committee and
has over fifteen years experience working in the field of early
childhood development, education and sustainable development. Katie
began her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in El Salvador, where she
lived in a rural community for 2 years teaching and developing health
education and income generation projects. She began working with the
IRC in 2005 as the education manager in Chad, supporting Darfurian
refugees to build and improve educational and recreational programs
for children and youth. Katie served as the Deputy Director of the
Global Master’s in Development Practice Secretariat at the Earth
Institute at Columbia University and returned to work at the IRC in
2015, and served as the technical lead for the design of the Ahlan
Simsim program, which received the inaugural 100&Change award from the
MacArthur Foundation. Currently a PhD candidate at the University of
Pennsylvania, Katie has conducted research in early childhood
development in Central America, Ecuador, India, Lebanon, Kenya, Mexico
and Thailand. Event is only for Yale Students.
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