Beryl Levinger is an American academic and educator. She is professor of international development at the
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California.
Biography
Levinger is an international development professional who focuses on five core areas: strategic planning; education; evaluation; capacity development; and health.
She is a frequent contributor to the work o
Root Change a US-based social venture organization.
Levinger has worked in over 90 countries for multiple international development organizations, including the
World Bank,
USAID,
Save the Children,
CARE
Care may refer to:
Organizations and projects
* CARE (New Zealand), Citizens Association for Racial Equality, a former New Zealand organisation
* CARE (relief agency), "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere", an international aid and ...
AFS International the
Carter Center, the International Committee of the
Red Cross,
Grameen Foundation, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
A graduate of the
Bronx High School of Science,
Cornell University, and the
University of Alabama, Levinger also served (until 2018) as distinguished visiting professor withi
Emory University's Master's in Development Practiceprogram.
Currently, Levinger plays a number of key roles at the
Middlebury Institute of International Studies in addition to serving as distinguished professor.
She chairs the Development Practice and Policy Program, is academic director for the program i
Design, Partnering, Management, and Innovation(DPMI), and is Middlebury's curricular innovation officer.
Levinger is one of the three co-founders (along with
Vicky Colbert
Vicky Colbert (born Clara Victoria Colbert de Arboleda; 1948/1949) is a Colombian social entrepreneur.
She has served as Colombia's Vice-Minister of Education, and is the founder and current Executive Director of Escuela Nueva Foundation. She has ...
and
Oscar Mogollon
Oscar Mogollón Jaimes was an education visionary of the late 20th century who pioneered the Escuela Nueva model and the Active school approach, educational models that have been used to improve the quality of education of the poorest children arou ...
) of the highly acclaimed
Escuela Nueva Escuela Nueva (Spanish for "new school") is an education model that emphasizes understanding over memorization and development of interpersonal skills. It originated in Colombia.
In an Escuela Nueva school, students learn independently, at their ...
movement that began in Colombia. She is also founder of th
Coverdell Peace Corps Fellows Programand was part of the team that founde
InterAction the leading association of US-based NGOs. Among her books are ''Human Capacity Development Across the Lifespan'' and ''Nutrition'', ''Health, Education and for All''. In 1996, she delivered the ninth annua
Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture (Capacity, Capital and Calories) based on her research regarding the interplay among learning outcomes, nutrition and health.
Levinger served as director or co-director of research for all but one of the annual
Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers Report. In 2016, the organization retired that report and introduced in its stead an annua
End of Childhood Report Levinger is research co-director for this new publication, which compares the nature of childhood across 175 countries.
References
External links
Middlebury Institute of International Studies Faculty
Middlebury College faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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