Shirin Vossoughi

Shirin Vossoughi joined Camp Ayandeh as a lead facilitator in 2010 and currently serves as the Camp Director. She has taught and worked in teacher-education for the last 10 years. In 2011, she completed her PhD in Education at the University of California in Los Angeles, studying the creative development of educational contexts for migrant and immigrant students. More broadly, her research interests include the anthropology of literacy, human development, and social change. She will begin a post-doctoral fellowship at the San Francisco Exploratorium and Stanford University in the Fall.