Wendi Carman

Wendi Carman is an education champion with two decades of international development and education experience, including leadership for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and research of basic education, youth development and community participation programs. Wendi has developed curricula and teaching and learning materials for formal and non-formal learning experiences, and has taught middle school, English as a Second Language, family literacy, and high school equivalency for youth. Her areas of focus include positive youth development and youth engagement, violence prevention and mitigation, school dropout prevention, and gender considerations in education programming.

At World Learning, Wendi is project director for a large-scale USAID-funded education project in Lebanon, QITABI 2. She has held long-term field positions in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Ecuador, and Mauritania. She has also managed and conducted short term technical support for education and youth projects in Algeria, Honduras, Kyrgyzstan, Zambia, Nigeria, and Panama. Wendi holds an M.Ed. in International Education and Development from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a BA in Spanish from the University of Oregon. She also earned a Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate from the Project Management Institute.

Expertise: program management, positive youth development, educator professional development, and community development