Mai is INASP’s Senior Programme Specialist, Gender. She specialises in gender responsive programming and pedagogy and leads our gender work. Mai is also our Senior Project Manager responsible for ensuring that we deliver our projects to a high standard and that we manage our partnerships effectively and equitably.

Mai is the project director of our Digital Hub for Open Research in East Africa project which seeks to harness open research capabilities to generate new knowledge solutions in East Africa. She also leads our contributions to the Girls Education and Skills Partnership (GESP) project at Yaba College of Technology which seeks to improve the livelihoods and future opportunities of 5,250 young women and girls by providing them with industry-relevant skills in ICT related sectors through gender responsive teaching and training.

Mai was previously the project manager of our Global Platforms for Equitable Knowledge Ecosystems project, which sought to build stronger and more equitable research systems, and prior to that our Transforming Employability for Social Change in East Africa (TESCEA) project. TESCEA supported universities, industries, communities and government in East Africa to work together to create an improved learning experience for students – both women and men. Mai joined INASP in 2015 and has experience working in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. 

Read blog posts by Mai here.