Ema Land Muita, Chief Programme Officer, has worked in education for the last 15 years in the US and East Africa. Ema excels in curriculum architecture, learning design, facilitation and management training, and teacher and school leader development. Before EDU, Ema served as the Director of Academics at Nova Pioneer Schools, a network of primary and secondary schools whose curriculum is focused on developing 21st century skills. Ema led their academic programme in Kenya for four years and supported the academic programme for two years post-merger with Pioneer Schools in South Africa. During that time she developed the overall academic architecture, built the curriculum design team and created their teacher development programme. Prior to Nova Pioneer, Ema acted as the Head of Academics at Spire Education. Ema started her career with Teach for America where she was placed as a primary teacher at Uncommon Schools in New Jersey. At Uncommon Schools she moved into instructional leadership and also built literacy curriculum for the East Coast network. Ema has a master’s degree in Education with a focus on curriculum design and integration of technology from Seton Hall. She has a bachelor’s degree in International Studies with a focus on African Studies from the University of Washington. She received instructional training and instructional leadership training from Uncommon Schools. She has also taken courses from Harvard’s Project Zero on Making Thinking Visible.