EPS Alumni Speaker Series: Amy Porter

Amy leads monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning on international development projects related to education policy, school-to-work transitions, and youth leadership, among other topics. From 2018-2022, Amy was the Senior Researcher on the USAID Middle East Education Research, Training, and Support (MEERS) contract that responded to on-demand requests from the Middle East Bureau and missions in the region to support evidence-based decision making related to the most pressing education issues in the MENA region. Amy received her doctorate in Educational Policy Studies from University of Wisconsin, Madison, and her master’s degree in International and Comparative Education from Columbia University - Teachers College. Her dissertation examined contemporary understandings of gender and entrepreneurship among youth and included nearly two-years of ethnographic data collection in Dakar, Senegal.