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Join us for a discussion on how USAID works with higher education institutions with USAID Higher Education Senior Advisor Samantha Alvis.

Samantha Alvis is currently the Senior Advisor for Higher Education in the Center for Education in USAID/Washington. In this role, she provides technical support to field offices to design activities that engage higher education institutions or post-secondary student populations and works to advance higher education programming across sectors within the Agency.

Samantha completed her Ph.D. in international agricultural development and agricultural communications at Texas A&M University. She taught courses in communications and leadership, and led study abroad trips to Namibia and Costa Rica. Her dissertation research focused on the benefits and challenges of higher education development assistance. RSVP here >>