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Homa Tavangar
Co-founder
The Big Questions Institute
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Professional Bio
Homa Sabet Tavangar is the author of the widely-acclaimed, Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World, named a “Best New Parenting Book” by Scholastic Parent & Child magazine, and hailed by national education, business leaders, and media. Her book is sparking initiatives across the U.S. to help audiences from CEOs to Kindergartners learn and thrive in a global context – and have fun along the way.
Homa is the lead author of The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners (Sage/Corwin, 2014) and a contributor to Mastering Global Literacy (Solution Tree, 2013). She is currently co-authoring a three-book series with Professor Yong Zhao on educating creative, entrepreneurial “World Class Learners.”
She serves as Series Consultant to NBC Sprout TV’s original series, Nina’s World. Homa serves as Education Adviser to Quiet Revolution, Barefoot Books, a consortium of International Schools, and also has been Education Adviser to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. She has worked with organizations ranging from the World Bank and USAID to Education First (EF), PBS Parents, Sprout TV, Kidshealth.org, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Her writing appears on National Geographic Education, Edutopia, the Huffington Post, PBS, Momsrising, GOOD, and EducationWeek, among other media, and she is a sought-after speaker around global citizenship, globalizing curriculum, parenting, diversity, and creating inclusive, empathetic working and learning environments.
Homa spent 20 years working in global competitiveness and international development with businesses, nonprofits, governments, and international organizations. Born in Iran, she has lived in Africa, South America, and across the U.S.; she is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UCLA and holds a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. She serves on the board of the Tahirih Justice Centerand is active in her local Philadelphia-area community.
Homa is the lead author of The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners (Sage/Corwin, 2014) and a contributor to Mastering Global Literacy (Solution Tree, 2013). She is currently co-authoring a three-book series with Professor Yong Zhao on educating creative, entrepreneurial “World Class Learners.”
She serves as Series Consultant to NBC Sprout TV’s original series, Nina’s World. Homa serves as Education Adviser to Quiet Revolution, Barefoot Books, a consortium of International Schools, and also has been Education Adviser to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. She has worked with organizations ranging from the World Bank and USAID to Education First (EF), PBS Parents, Sprout TV, Kidshealth.org, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Her writing appears on National Geographic Education, Edutopia, the Huffington Post, PBS, Momsrising, GOOD, and EducationWeek, among other media, and she is a sought-after speaker around global citizenship, globalizing curriculum, parenting, diversity, and creating inclusive, empathetic working and learning environments.
Homa spent 20 years working in global competitiveness and international development with businesses, nonprofits, governments, and international organizations. Born in Iran, she has lived in Africa, South America, and across the U.S.; she is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UCLA and holds a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. She serves on the board of the Tahirih Justice Centerand is active in her local Philadelphia-area community.
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