Join GSE International Education Development students Rameen Iftikhar and Ramsha Fatima as they discuss their work on The Looking Glass, a gender transformative education toolkit built on extensive ethnographic case studies of minority and minoritized groups in Pakistan.

About the presenters:

Rameen Iftikhar is the lead investigator for The Looking Glass. As a co-investigator, she led the grant commissioned by the Education, Justice, and Memory Network. She works in the research and implementation of international education development, with a specialisation in equity, inclusivity, and gender. 

She is currently pursuing her MSEd in International Education Development from the University of Pennsylvania as a Fulbright scholar, after receiving her BSc Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences. She co-founded Aghaaz, an extra-academic program for at-risk youth in Lahore, Pakistan. She is interested in designing and implementing education system reform at scale. Her research work explores gender governance, social systems, and equity in education.

Ramsha “Fatima” is the lead investigator for The Looking Glass. She served as the co-investigator for the grant, working with international and local partners to mobilise research and the development of multimodal pedagogical tools.

She is a Politics and Economics graduate from Lahore University of Management Sciences. She is currently at the University of Pennsylvania, pursuing her MSEd in International Education Development. She served as the co-founder of Aghaaz, leading the research and implementation for education outreach. Her research focuses on social and education policy, equitable access to education, EdTech and human-computer interaction.