EVA LATHIFAH ALI

Indonesia - EPPE Cohort 2019-20
Founder - Little Ali Academy

In 2017, Eva Lathifah received her B.Ed. cumlaude in Educational Management from Indonesia University of Education, where she was awarded a PPA Scholarship by the Ministry of Research and Higher Education. During her undergraduate study, she acted as Project Leader for the Social & Education programme of the Public Educator Corps on behalf of the Museum of The Asia Africa Conference and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia. Following this, she worked as a Research Assistant on various projects on educational policy and rural education. With her passion for equity in education and community development, she continuously improved her professional knowledge and in 2020, she completed the MSc EPPE programme, supported by the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education. Eva is currently building Little Ali Academy, a creative learning lab aimed at creating quality education opportunities for every child in marginalized communities, with a mission of breaking the community-school cycle of inequality in rural Banten, Indonesia. Her interests include community education, rural development strategy, educational technology and innovation.