Katie Godwin serves as the head of research for the Education Workforce Initiative (EWI), at the Learning Generation Initiative (LGI), working in global education research and policy. She oversees EWI’s research agenda and activities and supports EWI’s in-country collaborations to develop education workforce reform. She also led the development of EWI’s flagship report Transforming the Education Workforce.

Previously, Godwin worked in Nashville, Tennessee, leading immigrant and refugee education services with nongovernmental organizations.

Godwin graduated from Belmont University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and Russian. She also holds a Master of Education Degree in International Education Policy and Management from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a JD from the Columbia Law School’s Center for Public Research and Leadership.