Tracy Li

Tracy Li, from Calgary, Alberta, is pursuing a master’s degree in education data science at Stanford Graduate School of Education. She graduated from Queen’s University with a bachelor of commerce degree and was a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University, where she focused on humanitarian leadership. Tracy plans to design early childhood education interventions in humanitarian contexts. She was previously an adviser with Innovations for Poverty Action, where she tested and scaled Ghana’s new play-based kindergarten and primary school differentiated learning curricula. As a program and research coordinator with the Aga Khan Foundation in Kyrgyzstan, she designed private kindergarten models that supported hundreds of entrepreneurs in Central and South Asia. Tracy has also advised on a pediatric nutrition program in South Sudan and a youth peacebuilding program in communities along the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border.