Rachel Christina designs, implements, and evaluates research-based education initiatives globally, with particular interests in school quality improvement in low-resource and vulnerable contexts; teacher, school leader, and middle tier educator professional development; foundational learning; and early childhood development. She is EDC’s Director of Global Education Strategy and the Co-Lead of EDC’s Learn Transformation Area.

Rachel leads strategy and business development for EDC’s global work in formal and non-formal education, cultivating and managing partnerships to strengthen and support education and learning systems around the world. She oversees technical design and quality assurance for EDC’s global education programs, managing the rollout of EDC’s signature Ready Right Now suite of offerings in literacy, numeracy, SEL, science, and alternative education; EDC’s Start Right Now early childhood approach; and appropriate technologies to support teaching and learning. Her work ensures that EDC’s global education programming is evidence-based, asset-driven, and supports all children and youth, teachers and other educators, and families and communities to learn and thrive.

Rachel regularly shares her insights and EDC’s work at international thought leader and policy forums, as well as at conferences of organizations such as the Comparative and International Education Society and the mEducation Alliance. She is the author of multiple publications, including the UNESCO Handbook for Interactive Audio Instruction, EDC’s recent White Paper on primary science education as a cornerstone of foundational learning, a toolkit on expanding access to early childhood development, and a seminal report on scaling high-quality early childhood education.

Rachel is fluent in English and Arabic and holds a PhD in Education Policy Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington.