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Abiraahmi Shankar

Abiraahmi Shankar

Research Associate, PELE

Abiraahmi Shankar is a Research Associate on the Primary Education and Learning in Emergencies team at NYU Global TIES for Children, where she supports the implementation of mixed-methods research, the development of gamified, user-centric research and learning products, and project management for the Gobee, Education Cannot Wait and INEE Measurement Library projects. Her role includes co-developing/instructing trainings and research communications/publications and capacity-building activities internally, and in the contexts in which the PELE team works, such as Jordan, Peru, and Colombia. Abiraahmi holds a Bachelors of Science in Applied Psychology from NYU Steinhardt, during which time she completed her honors thesis on the Contribution of Social and Emotional Learning to Changes in Syrian Refugee Students’ Academic Outcomes. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Science in Integrated Design & Media from NYU's Tandon School of Engineering, where she is exploring the role of emerging technology in building sustainable education systems in the socio-cultural contexts in which media is developed by and in.