- Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.A., Anthropology, History, Religious Studies with honors, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ed.M., International Education Policy.
Claire is interested in how culture informs inequality in education, and she has worked in schools and nonprofits in the United States and India. While at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Claire spent a semester at the University of Hyderabad in southern India studying anthropology, religion and Urdu language, and she returned to Hyderabad on a research grant to study non-formal schools for Muslim girls run by NGOs. Claire then spent a semester working at a charter school for formerly incarcerated youth and studying international education in Washington, DC. She also taught college-level writing and sang in classical choir while at UW. After graduation, Claire coordinated youth development projects in Madison, Wisconsin public schools, libraries, farms, and community gardens; she then relocated to Washington, DC and taught documentary photography and organizing in DC public schools with Critical Exposure, an arts-education nonprofit. Claire recently completed her Masters degree in International Education Policy at Harvard, focusing on schooling for marginalized youth, especially those from religious minorities in India and racial minorities in the United States. Her other interests include biking, yoga, knitting, and rock climbing. Claire is proficient in Urdu and conversant in Hindi. She has led Global Awareness in Action India.
