Nara Nayar joined the Midwest Comprehensive Center at AIR as a technical assistance consultant in 2012. Her work with the MWCC has included providing content expertise and support for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s academic and career planning initiative and American Indian studies work. She also works on other ...
The Indigenous Student Identification Project will work directly with state and local education agencies, tribes, federal agencies, and national Indigenous education stakeholders to improve equity through better Indigenous student identification policies and practices.
The Integrated Skills Training Programme for Disadvantaged Adolescents and Youth in Lebanon (TVET) aims to provide vocational and competence-based training to both Lebanese and refugee youth, increase their access to employment and income generating activities, and enhance their personal and life skills. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) contracted AIR ...
STEM degree production in the U.S. is not keeping pace with the demand for STEM talent. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities are underrepresented in the STEM disciplines—the largest untapped STEM talent pools in the United States.
Disadvantaged populations are particularly vulnerable to human trafficking. AIR helps support the distribution of free materials that raise public awareness around human trafficking and connect victims to emergency services.
AIR developed a systematic, transparent, evidence-based protocol to review and translate the extant research about juvenile drug courts and related interventions into comprehensive, reasonable, actionable, understandable, and measurable guidelines.
More than 12 million people are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Because they tend to have greater health needs and lower incomes than other Medicare beneficiaries, dually eligible people often experience challenges with care delivery and integration between Medicare and Medicaid. With support from Arnold Ventures, AIR aimed to ...
The Breaking Barriers for Girls’ Education (BBGE) Program aims to increase access to education for girls in Chad and Niger, particularly for those living in fragile and conflict-affected areas, by reducing and removing contextually persistent barriers to their school enrolment. AIR’s primary objective for the study is to assess the ...
Sophia Arredondo is a technical assistant specialist at AIR with experience in projects related to youth, family, and community development. She is responsible for providing specialized direct assistance and training to local educational agencies (LEAs) impacted by community violence to expand their capacity to implement community- and school-based strategies that ...
The World Bank, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) designed a research program addressing how to improve education and learning outcomes for forcibly displaced populations and host communities facing poverty and other hardships. The World Bank contracted AIR ...