Ryan Forbes Morris

Ryan Forbes Morris joined IREX in July 2011 to work on the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) and the Media Strengthening Program for Mozambique (MSP).

Prior to joining IREX, Ryan was a teacher trainer at the Instituto de Formação de Professores do Alto Molócuè in Zambézia, Mozambique, providing in-service training to primary school English teachers on lesson planning, student-centered teaching methods, and classroom management. Ryan’s experience also includes serving as a Community and Youth Education Development Volunteer and English Language Instructor in Niger. While in Maradi, Niger, he collaborated with the regional school board to design and implement a series of capacity building workshops for local parent-teacher associations to promote women’s empowerment, literacy, financial transparency, HIV/AIDS awareness, and meeting management techniques.

Ryan also taught English at a secondary school and a youth center and partnered with a community radio station to host a weekly educational radio program for 92,000 listeners in the local language on topics such as family planning, hand washing, nutrition, and malaria prevention. Ryan holds a B.A. in French from Wabash College in Indiana and speaks French, Portuguese, and Hausa.