Prof Damaris Parsitau is Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies at Egerton University. She is also professor Extra-ordinary at University of South Africa (UNISA), Institute for Gender Studies and the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice, University of Western Cape respectively. She is also formally visiting Research Associate at Harvard University in the USA and the 2017 Echidna Global Scholar Alumni at the Brookings Institutions, Washington DC.
Prof Parsitau has over 25 years of experience in education, research, policy and evidence-based research as a lecturer, career educationist, teacher, leadership coach, mentor and as a social justice and gender equality advocate. She has conducted numerous research projects and published over 70 book chapters and peer reviewed journal articles with two forthcoming monographs. She has also published over 30 opinion pieces, policy blogs and briefs in both print and digital media, all dedicated to strengthening education actors and promoting the use of evidence-based research for effective policy action and practice.