Barbara Trudell

Barbara Trudell (PhD, Edinburgh) is a consultant in the field of local language use in both formal and non-formal learning contexts. Most of her professional life (1982-present) has been spent living and working in the global South, including Peru, Kenya, Cameroon and South Africa. Barbara’s current areas of interest include: language policy analysis, development and implementation; the implementation of contextually appropriate multilingual education program models; and community processes of language development and learning.

Over the past 15 years, Barbara has carried out research and technical consulting in eleven African nations, and has had more than 32 professional publications in that time as well (https://sil.academia.edu/BarbaraTrudell). In 2010, she founded an Africa-based education consultant unit, SIL Africa Learning & Development (https://africa.sil.org), in which she currently serves as a senior technical consultant and project development officer. Barbara also serves as a global MLE advisor for the Language and Learning Foundation, an at-large member of the UN NGO Committee on Language and Languages, and a board member for the NGO, Adult Learning and Empowerment Facilitators (ALEF).