Kate Lapham is the Chief of Party for the USAID All Children Succeeding Activity, which focuses on building foundational skills through inclusive education in primary grades in Uzbekistan.
Before joining Creative in 2023, Kate led the USAID Education in Crisis and Conflict Network for the Education Development Center and taught at the University of Dayton’s EdD in Leadership for Organizations. As Deputy Director of the Open Society Foundations’ Education Support Program, her grant portfolios focused on overcoming barriers to education stemming from historical injustice, exclusion or discrimination and addressing corrupt and corrosive governance practices.
Kate has more than two decades of experience in inclusive education and human rights, leading multi-country teams through policy analysis, technical assistance and disseminating impact through research, writing and public speaking. She serves on the Special Olympics Inclusive Education Research Collaborative.
Her publications include Learning to See Invisible Children: Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Central Asia and “Opening Doors and Mediating Practices” in The SAGE Handbook of Inclusion and Diversity in Education. She holds a PhD in comparative and international education from Lehigh University and an MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.