Camilla Baker

Biography

Camilla Baker is a research assistant for the 1998 UNESCO/ILI Summer Literacy Training Program. Her career interest in education began in Tanzania where she taught English and Biology in a a rural school for 9 months. In 1996 she lead an expedition to the Cook Islands to survey the rare Mangaia Kingfisher and develop conservation awareness on the island. She has worked with minority students in the UK and in 1998 taught Swahili in a predominantly African-American urban middle school. She continues to study the crossover of cultures in education in her graduate work. She holds a BA in Human Sciences from Oxford University and she will complete her Masters in Education, Culture and Society at the University of Pennsylvania in December 1998.

 

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