Andrew Habana Hafner

Andrew Habana Hafner has worked in the education field for the past seventeen years in international and U.S. contexts as a classroom teacher, trainer, curriculum developer, school administrator, program manager, evaluator and researcher. He worked in the Philippines for seven years at local, regional and national levels, both with the U.S. Peace Corps and independently as an educational consultant, focusing on comprehensive school-based reforms, as well as national level initiatives surrounding integrated literacy curriculum, professional resource development, environmental education, and peace education. Andrew's U.S. educational experience and research focuses on language and literacy development for immigrant youth, critical multicultural education, global education, and teacher development. For the past two years, Mr. Habana Hafner has been working on the program evaluation component of the USAID-funded Ambassadors' Girls' Scholarship Program in West Africa. He is also currently involved in educational evaluation of teacher development programs of the STEM Program (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Mr. Habana Hafner has a master's degree in International Education, and is currently finishing his doctoral degree in education in Language, Literacy, and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.