Amy Jamison
Innovation Scholar
Amy Jamison is an education, gender, and research specialist with fifteen years of experience in education research and program administration. Currently, she serves as the Co-Director for the Alliance for African Partnership, a consortium of eleven universities (Michigan State University and ten African university members) and was formerly the Associate Director of MSU’s Center for Gender in Global Context. Dr. Jamison holds graduate degrees in educational policy, history, and African studies. Her research focuses broadly on African higher education development, educational policy in Africa, gender issues in higher education, and gender in international development. She has been involved with several grant and research projects in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Mali. She has consulted for Michigan State University initiatives in sustainable community development, youth employment, and university capacity strengthening. She has also served in a project management and gender advisory role for three multi-institutional USAID-funded university capacity building programs—two in Malawi and one in Rwanda. Currently she is a leader, gender advisor, and coach on the implementation team for the USAID-funded Malawi University of Science and Technology Innovation Scholars Program (MUST ISP).
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