Whitney Warren

Whitney Warren is the Chief Education Officer at Building Tomorrow, a community-led NGO bringing foundational literacy and numeracy to last mile learners in East Africa, where she leads their pedagogy and research work. Her current work centers on using implementation research to contextualize global evidence for local use.  She holds masters degrees in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the University of Georgia. A former classroom teacher, she also has worked as a short-term consultant for the World Bank and a Program Manager at Research Schools International. Recent publications include, “When I hold my daughter, she quiets, no need [for] any verbal conversation”: A qualitative understanding of responsive caregiving in rural, Sindh Pakistan” (2024) and “Overcoming the streetlight effect: Qualitative examination of community experts’ perceptions of foundations of learning and development (FOLD) skills” (2024).