Martina Ochiel
Martina Ochiel is a lead instructional design specialist and trainer with the Culinary Career Ladder (CCL) Project. She is a multidisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on digital integration in education, teacher education, adult education and curriculum design. Her work also critically engages with decoloniality of knowledge and recentering the epistemologies of the global south. She has more than 10 years of experience designing and successfully implementing literacy and skills-based training for culturally heterogeneous and linguistically diverse groups of refugees and out of school youths with varying levels of literacy in East Africa. She successfully designed the Culinary English online training that has been successfully implemented and is being rolled out in all trainings within CCL.

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