Joan DeJaeghere, associate professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), has been selected as an expert consultant to the MacArthur Foundation. Her focus is on girls’ secondary education in Africa and India. At a consultation on June 6, 2014, in Chicago, she will discuss how formal and non-formal education equip economically marginalized girls with skills and attributes that enhance agency.
MacArthur is one of the nation’s largest independent foundations. Through the support it provides, the foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, strengthens institutions, helps improve public policy, and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public interest media.
