Wendi has been a Senior Education Specialist for the past 15 years with the American Institutes for Research where she is project director for international education and youth programming, including youth violence prevention in the Latin America and Caribbean region.

Earlier she was employed by Creative Associates International as the Deputy Country Coordinator in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.  She provided technical oversight for a local team implementing a USAID-funded school dropout prevention program. She led the writing and revision of manuals for training teachers, school directors and parents, planned training and capacity building workshops and coordinated with local education experts to develop lesson for tutors working in an after school program.

From 2009 to 2011 Wendi was External Relations Manager for Creative Associates in Kabul, Afghanistan working on a USAID-funded in-service teacher training project.

Before that she was a Technical Manager, based in Washington D.C., with Creative Associates for education projects in Nigeria, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.  In that role she traveled to project sites to assist local staff with programming and administrative milestones.

After finishing her degree at CIE she worked as an instructor in an adult basic education program in Holyoke, Massachusetts. [2-21]

Email: carman.wendi@gmail.com