Amy Parker

Amy joins Right To Play as the Interim Director of Program Quality, leading the global technical specialists. A trained secondary school French and German teacher, she discovered the international development sector during her time as a long-term VSO teacher trainer volunteer in Rwanda, 15 years ago. Since then, she has had the privilege of working with a number of different organisations and programmes including Children in Crisis, Relief International, Plan International UK, the Girls’ Education Challenge and Save the Children. She dances between technical advisory and technical programme management roles, and loves collaborating with country and global teams to work out what quality really looks like in the different places and contexts in which we work. She is a practitioner at heart, with technical expertise spanning early childhood, primary, secondary, formal, and non-formal learning and development spaces, with a particular focus on holistic playful learning and rights-based programming. Amy has two cats, Betty and Wilma, who love her, tolerate her, and have a (rather inexplicable) pathological fear of her feet in equal measure.