Tom Tilson

Tom Tilson has been supporting education in Asia, Africa, and Latin America since his Peace Corps experience in the Philippines decades ago, including long-term assignments in Nicaragua, Tanzania, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Kenya.

Currently, he works in Kenya where he is Senior Education Advisor to the DFID-funded Kenya Essential Education Program. His special passion has been the application of appropriate technologies to expand access and improve the quality of basic education and teacher training. He was part of the founding team for Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) in Nicaragua in the mid-1970s and has expanded his interest to include video, tablets, mobile phones, and computers.

He has had the pleasure of working with Matt York in South Sudan and Kenya. Tom has his BA and MAT degrees from Yale University and Ph.D. in education from Stanford University.