HarvardX: ECD01 Early Childhood Development: Global Strategies for Implementation

Sajeda Atari, MA, is a ZERO TO THREE Fellow. She is Child Protection and Early Childhood Specialist at UNICEF-Jordan. She leads UNICEF’s nationwide Parenting Support Programs and supports UNICEF’S parenting agenda on in the MENA Region. She is committed to strengthening systems, delivering support services, and improving access to quality ECD programming, including on Positive Parenting and Early Intervention for young children with disabilities.

Prior to UNICEF, Ms. Atari served in various technical and managerial roles within the NGO sector. She has translated and published several academic books to Arabic that are being taught in universities in Jordan and the region.

Ms. Atari holds an MA in Early Childhood Education from the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she was a recipient of the Presidential Honors Scholarship. Additionally, she holds an MA in Special Education from the University of Jordan. In 2020, Ms. Atari earned certification in Early Intervention from Georgetown University in Washington D.C.

On September 1, 2018 Michelle Bachelet assumed her functions as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights was established in 1993 and Ms. Bachelet is the seventh Commissioner.

Ms. Bachelet was elected President of Chile on two occasions (2006 – 2010 and 2014 – 2018). She was the first female president of Chile. She served as Health Minister (2000-2002) as well as Chile’s and Latin America’s first female Defense Minister (2002 – 2004).

During her presidential tenures, she promoted the rights of all but particularly those of the most vulnerable. Among her many achievements, education and tax reforms, as well as the creation of the National Institute for Human Rights and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights stand out, as do the establishment of the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality, the adoption of quotas to increase women’s political participation, and the approval of Civil Union Act legislation, granting rights to same sex couples and thus, advancing LGBT rights.

Since the early 1990s, Ms. Bachelet has worked closely with many international organizations. In 2010 she chaired the Social Protection Floor Advisory Group, a joint International Labor Organization (ILO) and World Health Organization (WHO) initiative, which sought to promote social policies to stimulate economic growth and social cohesion.

In 2011, she was named the first Director of UN Women, an organization dedicated to fighting for the rights of women and girls internationally. Economic empowerment and ending violence against women were two of her priorities during her tenure. She has recently pledged to be a Gender Champion, committing to advance gender equality in OHCHR and in international fora.

After finishing her second term in March 2018, she was named Chair of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, an alliance of more than 1000 organizations in 192 countries from the sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health communities. As Co-Chair of the High-Level Steering Group for Every Woman Every Child, Ms. Bachelet launched Every Woman Every Child Latin America and the Caribbean, the first platform for tailored, regional implementation of the EWEC Global Strategy.

Michelle Bachelet has a Medical Degree in Surgery, with a specialization in Pediatrics and Public Health. She also studied military strategy at Chile's National Academy of Strategy and Policy and at the Inter-American Defense College in the United States.

Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MsC, is Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is director of research at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She received a first class honors degree and an MSc from Oxford University, and a JD from the College of Law in London. From 1997 to 2001 Bhabha directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997 she was a practicing human rights lawyer in London and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. She has published extensively on issues of transnational child migration, refugee protection, children’s rights, and citizenship. She is the author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age (Princeton University Press, 2014), editor of Children Without A State (MIT Press, 2011), author of Moving Children: Young Migrants and the Challenge of Rights (Princeton University Press, 2014), and editor of Coming of Age: Reframing the Approach to Adolescent Rights (UPenn Press, 2014). She serves on the board of the Scholars at Risk Network, the World Peace Foundation and the Journal of Refugee Studies.

Flavio Cunha is the Ervin Kenneth Zigler Professor of Economics at Rice University. He is Founding Faculty Affiliate of the Texas Policy Lab, a research center devoted to promoting innovation in public policy in four areas: early childhood and adolescence, health, juvenile and criminal justice, and labor market. His recent research in early childhood focuses on designing and evaluating parenting interventions as well as training programs for the labor force in the early care and education sectors. His research has been funded by grants from NIH, Arnold Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, and other philanthropic institutions.

Sara Dang is Save the Children’s Advisor for ECCD in Asia. In this role, she provides technical support to ensure the design and delivery of quality ECCD programs for children from birth to six years in safe and sustainable environments. At the regional level, she is the chair of the Asia Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC) steering committee, where she provides strategic guidance in the network’s vision, actions and strategy. She has worked in Asia, Africa and the Pacific. She has a Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master’s in Mind, Brain and Education from Harvard University.

Marquita Furness Davis, Ph.D., Deputy Director of Early Learning, U.S. Program, leads the foundation’s multi-state early learning strategy which aims to ensure that all young children have access to high-quality, effective, and affordable preschool.

Prior to joining the foundation in 2017, Marquita was the executive director of a large anti-poverty community action agency in Birmingham, Alabama. At this same agency, she previously served as deputy director of child development services overseeing two early childhood federal programs, Head Start and Early Head. Appointed by two governors, Marquita also served as the director of finance for the State of Alabama, commissioner for the Alabama Department of Children’s Affairs, and Pre-K director for the state of Alabama.

Marquita earned her bachelor’s degree from Northern Illinois University, a master’s degree from Alabama A&M University and a Ph.D. in Early Childhood Education and Development from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Elizabeth Gibbons is currently a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Child Protection Certificate Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she participates in numerous initiatives which leverage her expertise in advancing the human rights of children and adolescents, including the development of a cross-disciplinary child protection curriculum for graduate students, and online HarvardX and Executive Education courses for child protection professionals. From 2011-2012 she was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence in Global Finance at St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas. Prior to these academic appointments, Elizabeth Gibbons enjoyed a lengthy career in international development, primarily with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), during which she lived and worked in Togo, Kenya and Zimbabwe, and served as head of UNICEF’s offices in Haiti and in Guatemala. She also held several positions in UNICEF’s New York Headquarters, including Acting Director, Emergency Operations; Chief, Global Policy; and Deputy Director, Division of Policy and Practice, where she specialized in the design of organizational policy for implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and applying international human rights principles of non-discrimination, democratic participation and accountability to UNICEF-supported socio- economic programs. A graduate of Smith College and Columbia University, Ms. Gibbons is fluent in French and Spanish, and the author of Sanctions in Haiti: Human Rights and Democracy under Assault, as well as a contributing author to several other books.

Sabrina Habib is the Co-Founder and Chief Exploration Officer at Kidogo, the leading childcare network in Kenya. Kidogo improves access to high-quality, affordable early childhood care & education to low-income families by equipping women ("Mamapreneurs”) with the knowledge, skills and tools to start or grow their own childcare micro-businesses. Prior to Kidogo, Sabrina spent three years working with the Aga Khan Development Network in East Africa, managing an integrated primary health care project and the social innovations portfolio of a $13.5M maternal and child health grant. It was during this time that Sabrina first encountered the childcare crisis taking place in Nairobi's informal settlements (slums). Dissatisfied with the status quo and traditional approaches to development, Sabrina launched Kidogo in 2014. It has since provided over 5 million hours of play-based, holistic childcare to children aged 0-5 years. Sabrina holds a Masters of Public Administration in Development Practice from Columbia University and an Executive Education Certificate in Leading & Scaling Early Childhood Initiatives from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She was named as a Forbes' Top 30 Under 30 (2017), as Canada's Female Social Entrepreneur of the Year by ELLE Magazine (2016), as an Echoing Green Fellow (2016), as the HRH Prince of Wales / Unilever Young Social Entrepreneur for 2017 and as an Acumen East Africa Fellow (2020).

Zarlasht co-founded Refugee Trauma Initiative in 2016 after returning from the Syrian border, where she had advised INGOs on education and child wellbeing, to help refugees dealing with the emotional fallout of violence and displacement. She has worked for several aid organisations, including Save the Children. In the UK she has worked for the Young Foundation, the Studio Schools Trust and the Skills Lab – an education consultancy where she was a founding director. In 2018, Zarlasht was selected as a Fellow of the inaugural class of Obama Fellows, a group of 20 global leaders in civic innovation. Zarlasht and her family were forcibly displaced from Kabul when she was eleven years old. She arrived in the UK at age fifteen and was granted asylum.

Dr. Dafna Kohen is a Senior Research Analyst and Chief in the Health Analysis Division at Statistics Canada and adjunct professor at the Dept. of Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Trained as a developmental psychologist she has degrees from McGill University, McMaster University, and Columbia University. Areas of research expertise include the use of population based data to examine policy relevant research in the area of healthy child development and examinations of social determinants of health for vulnerable populations. Research funding from government as well as non-government departments include CIHR grant funded projects examining the health of caregivers of children with disabilities as well as work on community and family influences on Aboriginal child and youth health and well-being.

Tim Linden is the Assistant Director of Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Brazil Office, which works to expand research, teaching and educational opportunities for Harvard faculty and students across the University. He serves on the executive committee of the Núcleo Ciência Pela Infância, the Harvard Alumni Club of Brazil board and the Insper Alumni Council, and he has volunteered with local and international organizations focused on community and youth development. Tim graduated magna cum laude in Latin American Studies from Harvard College and earned a Master's Degree in Business Administration from Insper.

Raymond Mhaluka is a Programme Manager in DMI’s Tanzania team, and has managed the deliver of Malezi, an early childhood development radio and mobile video campaign in partnership with the Elizabeth Glazer Paediatric Aids Foundation, funded by Hilton. He holds a BA in Mass Communication from Saint Augustine University of Tanzania and has diverse experience in social work/research and in mass media. Before joining DMI, he worked with Bomba FM Radio in Mbeya as journalist, presenter, chief editor and assistant radio station manager. Raymond has also worked with NGOs, e.g. as program officer with Promoters of Health Development Association (PHEDEA) in the “Pamoja Tuwalee” project in Mbeya. He has served as a research assistant in studies operated by the Catholic University of Health And Allied Sciences, Catholic Relief Services, Emory University, Aga Khan Foundation, National Health Insurance Fund, and Henry M. Jackson Foundation Medical Research International.

A graduate of the University of Alberta, Canada (Ph.D) and the University of Cape Coast, Ghana (B.Ed. Honors), Dr Kofi Marfo came to AKU from the University of South Florida, where he was a full professor for 22 years and Founding Director of the Center for Research on Children’s Development and Learning. After a brief post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta, he accepted his first academic appointment in North America as an assistant professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Four years later, he moved to Kent State University (Ohio) as an associate professor for three years before assuming the full professorship at the University of South Florida. Dr. Marfo began his university teaching career at age 25 at the University of Cape Coast, his Alma Mater.

His current scholarly interests are in the areas of developmental science, social policy and childhood interventions; the advancement of a global science of human development; and philosophical issues in behavioral science and education research. He has published extensively in the areas of early child development, early intervention efficacy, parent-child interaction, behavioral development in children adopted from China, and childhood disability in low- and middle-income countries. His scholarly works have been cited over 1,200 times worldwide in over 180 different journals spanning multiple disciplines and fields.

A post graduate in Special Education for persons with disabilities, Sumitra comes with over twenty years of work experience in the development sector in India. Her direct work experience with disenfranchised communities of children and women has been the pivot of the strategic programming, fund raising, organizational development and policy influence abilities. Sumitra has steered organizations through the process of program delivery and partnerships, CSR development, strategic communications and governance processes. Social justice for poor and excluded people is the fundamental agenda of her work.

Research Director, Division of Developmental Medicine; Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Professor Nelson's research interests are broadly concerned with developmental cognitive neuroscience, an interdisciplinary field concerned with the intersection of brain and cognitive development. His specific interests are concerned with the effects of early experience on brain and behavioral development, particularly the effects of early biological insults and early psychosocial adversity. Nelson studies both typically developing children and children at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders (particularly autism), and he employs behavioral, electrophysiological (ERP), and metabolic (fNIRS and MRI) tools in his research. Over and above his domestic research program, Nelson also works in a variety of low resource countries.

Following his paediatric training paediatric at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Frank went to Harvard University where he completed a fellowship and then was appointed to staff at the Boston Children’s Hospital. His career interest in early childhood was stimulated by his involvement in the ground breaking Brookline Early Childhood Project, which enrolled children into school in the last trimester of their mother’s pregnancy.

Frank returned to Australia after 4 ½ years in Boston and built a new department from scratch - the Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH) now has close to 140 FTE staff and is an internationally recognised centre of excellence. Along the way he has initiated or been involved in many enduring programs – the Australian Early Developmental Index (AEDI), the Raising Children Parenting website (RCN), the Victorian Infant Hearing Screening program (VIHSP), the Australian Temperament Project (a longitudinal research study of almost 2500 infants now being studies into the 3rd generation), and introduced the specialty of developmental/behavioural paediatrics into Australia. He has received a number of prestigious Australian and international awards and is a consultant for UNICEF and the WHO.

After recently stepping down as Foundation Director of CCCH, Frank continues to be active in advocacy and public policy, now focused mainly on mental health but still with his long standing focus on prevention, early intervention, and service redevelopment.

Vikram Patel, MBBS, PhD is The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an adjunct professor and joint director of the Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries at the Public Health Foundation of India, honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (where he co-founded the Centre for Global Mental Health in 2008), and is a co-founder of Sangath, an Indian NGO which won the MacArthur Foundation’s International Prize for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2008 and the WHO Public Health Champion of India award in 2016. He is a fellow of the UK’s Academy of Medical Sciences and has served on several WHO expert and Government of India committees. His work on the burden of mental disorders, their association with poverty and social disadvantage, and the use of community resources for the delivery of interventions for their prevention and treatment has been recognized by the Chalmers Medal (Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, UK), the Sarnat Medal (US National Academy of Medicine), an honorary doctorate from Georgetown University, the Pardes Humanitarian Prize (the Brain & Behaviour Research Foundation), an honorary OBE from the UK Government and the Posey Leadership Award (Austin College). He also works in the areas of child development and adolescent health. He was listed in TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential persons of the year in 2015.

Christine Powell, PhD was a Senior Lecturer in the Epidemiology Research Unit at CAIHR. Following undergraduate studies in Chemistry and Botany at the UWI, Mona she completed the MSc and PhD degrees in Nutrition at CAIHR, UWI. This was followed by a one year post-doctoral fellowship in International Nutrition at Cornell University, USA.

Over the last forty years her research activities focused on the effects of nutrition, health and the environment on the growth and intellectual development of young children; early childhood development interventions and nutrition of school aged children. She also coordinated the graduate programmes at CAIHR until 2012. Dr Powell continues to contribute to CAIHR’s Child Development research programmes especially in implementation research in child development interventions in developing countries.

Pieter Remes is a cultural anthropologist with over 20 years of experience of health-related research in sub-Saharan Africa. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from Northwestern University. He has managed multi-sited, interdisciplinary research teams and coordinated the production of numerous health communication projects, including radio projects in Tanzania, Burkina Faso, DRC, Kenya, Zambia and Benin.

Pieter currently leads our mass media campaigns in Tanzania, on nutrition, early childhood development and sexual/reproductive health. He was previously Head of Research for DMI's child survival randomised controlled trial in Burkina Faso (2011-2015), where he led on research, monitoring and evaluation but also played an active role in managing the creative and production components of the radio campaign.

National Manager of the Educational Program of Chile Grows With You, Clinical Psychologist and Master of Science in Children Mental Health. Early Childhood Development Specialist in the National Team of Chile Grows With You at the Ministry of Social Development and Family of Chile. Certified specialist in attachment evaluation and positive parenting interventions, with large experience on implementation of public policies for early childhood.

Marie-Louise Samuels’ work experience has required her to provide visionary and strategic leadership as well as guidance pertaining to policy development and the monitoring of the implementation of the curriculum and assessment. Her personal growth journey has given her the skills and competencies to contribute to the advancement of the Early Childhood Development sector at all levels, including internationally.

As the Director for Early Childhood Development in a national department, her responsibility was primarily the conceptualization, development and management of policies and procedures for the implementation of ECD programmes in the DBE as well as interdepartmentally with other government departments, organs of state and Non-Governmental Organisations.

Mr. Mangala Samaraweera was the Minister of Finance in Sri Lanka from 2017 to 2019.

Mr. Samaraweera has previously held the ministerial portfolios of finance and mass media, and foreign affairs between 2015 and 2018. He has served under three presidents of Sri Lanka, holding portfolios of ports, telecommunications, aviation, urban development, and housing in the course of working 30 continuous years in the Parliament.

As a peoples’ representative, Mr. Samaraweera has been a strong advocate for human rights and national reconciliation.

Since retiring from parliamentary politics in March 2020, Mr. Samaraweera is now crafting a citizens’ movement for liberal democratic values, “The Radical Center”. He is also the founder of “Freedom Hub”, an incubator for digital democracy.

Manpreet is the Deputy Director for Strategy, Planning & Management for the FP, MNCH, and Nutrition cluster – where he oversees strategy and operations for the three teams. Manpreet joined the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2017, where he supported the MNCH refresh, and explored an approach to child neurodevelopment –understanding how investments in childhood can help people thrive in adulthood, supporting investments into developing new tools to measure child neurodevelopment, and leading the BMGF-UNICEF partnership strategy for cognitive development.

Manpreet’s other experience spans across clinical medicine, public health, and strategy consulting, and he has on-the-ground experience working in eleven countries across Africa and Asia. Before joining the foundation, Manpreet was an Associate Partner and Deputy for Health and Nutrition at Dalberg Advisors, based in Nairobi. At Dalberg, Manpreet led global health strategy engagements with clients including Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CIFF, GE, Ministries of Health, USAID, WHO AFRO, and confidential pharmaceutical companies. Before joining Dalberg, Manpreet helped design randomized controlled trials in community health in Tanzania and Zambia.

Manpreet is a medical doctor and worked clinically in North London. He studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and holds a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow.

Michelle A. Williams, SM ’88, ScD ’91, is Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development, a joint faculty appointment at the Harvard Chan School and Harvard Kennedy School. She is an internationally renowned epidemiologist and public health scientist, an award-winning educator, and a widely recognized academic leader. Prior to becoming Dean on July 1, 2016, she was Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Program Leader of the Population Health and Health Disparities Research Programs at Harvard’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Center (Harvard Catalyst).

Dean Williams joined the Harvard Chan faculty after a distinguished career at the University of Washington (UW) School of Public Health where she rose through the faculty ranks to become a full professor of epidemiology in 2000. While at the UW, she was very active in the Center for Perinatal Studies at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, becoming co-director from 2000 to 2011, with broad responsibilities for a multidisciplinary research program involving clinical investigators, basic scientists, and epidemiologists. From 1992 to 2010, she was an affiliate investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and from 2008 to 2011 she held a joint appointment in global health at the UW.

The Dean’s scientific work places special emphasis in the areas of reproductive, perinatal, pediatric, and molecular epidemiology. She has extensive experience in carrying out large-scale, multidisciplinary research involving the collection and analysis of epidemiological data (e.g., sleep characteristics, physical activity, dietary intake, and environmental exposures) and biological specimens (e.g., blood-based biochemistry/biomarkers, flow cytometry, genetic variants, whole genome expression of mRNA and miRNA), both domestically and internationally.

Dean Williams has published more than 500 peer-reviewed research papers ranging from studies of modifiable behavioral and environmental determinants of adverse health outcomes to genetic and genomic studies of common complications of pregnancy and chronic disorders among children and adults.

She has administered successfully large-scale, clinical epidemiology studies that seek to understand genetic and environmental causes of adverse pregnancy outcomes and other noncommunicable disorders along the life course. Dean Williams also developed and directed the Reproductive Pediatric and Perinatal Training Program at the UW for more than seven years.

In 1994, Dean Williams developed, and directed until 2019, the NIH-funded multidisciplinary international research training (MIRT) program that allows for the development and operations of undergraduate and graduate student training in global health, biostatistics, and epidemiology in over 14 foreign research sites in South America, South East Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Dean Williams has been recognized for her excellence in teaching, as the recipient of the 2015 Harvard Chan School’s Outstanding Mentor Award, the UW’s Brotman Award for excellence in teaching (2007), the American Public Health Association’s Abraham Lilienfeld Award for education in epidemiology (2007), and the White House’s Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (2012).

She is a member of several professional and scholarly associations, including the National Academy of Medicine, the Society for Epidemiologic Research, and the American Epidemiological Society (elected). In 2020, she was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and recognized by PR Week as one of the top 50 health influencers of the year.

Dean Williams received her undergraduate degree in biology and genetics from Princeton University in 1984. She has a master’s in civil engineering from Tufts University, and master’s and doctoral degrees in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Virginia Wilson is the Chieft Operating Officer at OneSky, a small iNGO working with at-risk children in China, Vietnam, Mongolia and Hong Kong. Prior to joining OneSky, Virginia was the Chief Executive of the Child Development Centre and during her tenure she was the Chairman of Growing Together, a charity that successfully lobbied for the rights of children with Special Educational needs with the Hong Kong Government, China and the United Nations. Virginia facilitated the first charity merger in Hong Kong, chaired the school council of the Jockey Club Sarah School, the only English language special school in Hong Kong, and was a board member of the English Schools Foundation (ESF). Virginia led the formation of the Education Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce. In her roles she drove change in the sector, in policies and solidified government relationships and transitioned programs to scale. Prior to her career in education, she held a number of senior positions in the fields of communications, media and arts management, including the start-up of STAR TV covering 60 countries in Asia.

Alice Wong, Ph.D. is the Chief Programs Officer at OneSky for all children, an iNGO committed to unlocking the potential in the world’s vulnerable children. Before joining OneSky, Alice was a Program Director at Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education, during her tenure, she was instrumental to developing a 4-year accredited bachelor’s degree program bringing the College into the tertiary higher education arena. After 10- years dedicated to pre/in-service training of teachers, Alice felt her passion for bringing about change in the lives of forgotten children needed more expression. By working in low-resource countries training communities of caregivers, children can directly benefit from Alice’s passion to uncover the hidden potential in young children. Alice received her Ph.D. in Early Childhood Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/ University of Toronto.

Ayah Younis is a human-centered designer and a children’s literature writer with 10-year experience in education in museums. She works with the Ahlan Simsim program to design relevant and easy to adopt programs for children and caregivers realizing innovative and user-centered delivery modalities. Previously, she held the position of Education and Programs Manager at the Children’s Museum Jordan in Amman, where she designed and managed the implementation of playful learning experiences for children and facilitators in science, art, literature, and technology.

Ayah Younis has authored seven children’s books and presented a research paper on children’s literature. Younis holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Jordan, in Amman.