Haein Shin

Staff

Haein Shin is an international education professional working at the intersection of curriculum development, program management, and community resilience. With over 15 years of experience spanning USA, Myanmar, India, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Paraguay and 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, she designs and manages education programs aimed at improving learning outcomes in low-resource settings. Her project portfolio spans national education planning, early grade literacy, employment readiness with digital and financial literacy, life skills, technology integration in teaching, citizen science and environmental education.

At the Center for Sustainable Development, Haein develops curriculum for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) — covering environmental awareness, digital literacy, life skills, and literacy remediation — and has trained ICT center managers to deliver that content to 500+ trainees. In Myanmar's secondary schools, she led Monitoring & Evaluation with 350+ participants to inform project design and interventions, and worked with education ministry officials to introduce learner-centered, technology-integrated teaching approaches, contributing to the implementation of Virtual Reality teacher training modules.

At the policy level, she has led Columbia University's technical team supporting Paraguay's national education transformation plan, collaborating with the education ministry, university experts, NGOs and civil society organizations across the diagnostic analysis and roadmap formation stages. She has also devised data collection tools for UNESCO's regional report on youth perspectives on education and employment across 11 Sub-Saharan African countries.

Before her current role, Haein supported education planning, literacy programs, content development and cross-country research across 10 Sub-Saharan African countries, Latin America and Asia at the Earth Institute. Earlier in her career she served as a Youth and Community Educator with the Peace Corps and led women's wellness initiatives in the Middle East as Director of Planning — experiences that shaped the cross-cultural grounding and sensitivity to lived realities that inform her approach today.

Haein holds a Master of Arts in International Educational Development from Teachers College, Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the College of William & Mary.