Amy Porter, PhD, has spent nearly two decades at the intersection of international education, youth development, and participatory research and training. A former U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer and Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow, she spent over seven years at Social Impact Inc., ultimately serving as Technical Director where she led multi-million-dollar monitoring, evaluation, research and learning portfolios for USAID and the World Bank/Global Partnership for Education (WB/GPE).

She was also the divisional learning lead, designing a two-year series of technical training content delivery. Amy has led and collaborated on designing capacity-strengthening programs and developing practical tools that transform how organizations deliver and measure youth and education programming. To accomplish this, she developed virtual, user-centered, low-burden learning models and including train-the-trainer curricula in the Eastern Caribbean and designed and oversaw a multi-lingual national curriculum review in Morocco. Gender and youth development are two lenses integral to her work – including youth-led participatory evaluations using Most Significant Change methodology in Jordan, Benin, and Liberia.

A respected global researcher, she has partnered closely with agencies including UNESCO, USAID, Mastercard Foundation, and WB/GPE to lead research and training efforts that gather, interpret, and use complex data to develop inclusive, culturally competent strategies that drive programming impact.