Jimmy Leak JimmyLeak_PhD
Jimmy Leak has designed and managed early grades literacy programs in East Africa. He currently serves as the Education Program Strategic Adviser for Nuru International. While completing his Ph.D. in education and policy and social context at the University of California, Irvine, he was named a 2011-2012 Public Impact Fellow for his research on teachers and early grades student achievement.
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Child literacy: The key to ending intergenerational poverty
over 10 years ago // International Literacy Day
The future career and livelihood opportunities of poor children who can read could be vastly different from those of their parents, and may even be the catalyst to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty. A guest commentary by Nuru International's Jimmy Leak for International Literacy Day.