Mukhayyokhon Azamova

Mukhayyokhon Azamova is a first-year doctoral. student. She is from Uzbekistan where she is a social protection and policy development specialist with experience in international relations, fund mobilization, community strengthening, and child rights.

As a Department Head at the Ministry of Public Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan she advanced international cooperation and raised funds for the national reform strategies. She established relationships with such strategically important donor organizations as USAID, US Department of States, the World Bank and others. As a result, she won several multi-million dollar grants and technical support for the Ministry. In recognition of her contribution to the development of the education system she was awarded with the National Medal of Achievement.

During her work with SOS Children’s Villages in Uzbekistan, she worked on development and implementation of projects funded by Luxembourg, BMZ, and EU directed toward child protection and community empowerment.

Mukhayyokhon has teaching experience in public and private sector and internship experience with  Embassy of the United States of America in Tashkent; Illinois Collaboration on Youth and Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. 

Mukhayyokhon holds BA degree in teaching Russian Language and Literature from Tashkent State Pedagogical University and she is a Fulbright Scholarship recipient which provided support for her MSW studies at Loyola University Chicago.

 "I hope to learn about successful education reforms and lessons learned from the experience of other countries. I want to know about building efficient monitoring and evaluation systems that provide measurable indicators of academic progress in the context of developing countries. In addition, I would like to deepen my knowledge of the political and social impact of education on global justice, human rights and equality. I would like to learn how to build an inclusive education system that would lead to progress for a nation.

Essentially, I see this degree as the next step in my career. With the knowledge gained at UMass Amherst, I hope to join the education secretariat of the government of Uzbekistan to better contribute to the reform of education in Uzbekistan or work with a global international organization focused on children’s rights, education and social development in Central Asia."