Claudia Urrea

Claudia Urrea is the senior associate director for pK-12 at MIT Open Learning where she works on the MIT Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL), an initiative that works with member organisations to promote share MIT expertise and know-how.

In addition, Claudia founded the MIT STEAM camp, which brings MIT’s learning approach to middle school students and teachers in international locations, and co-founded Full STEAM Ahead, a virtual archive and programme that combines hands-on exploration, project design and skill building in STEAM subjects. She is currently leading the creation of a STEAM laboratory school in Belize in collaboration with the Ministry of Education. For the past 25 years, Claudia has helped multiple governments and non-government agencies to empower and support schools and communities of learners to evolve from traditional teaching methods into progressive learning environments.