Carolina Casas is a researcher and education specialist with sixteen years of experience designing and implementing scalable educational interventions and developing innovative educational content, focused mainly in Latin America. Having joined Sesame Workshop in 2010, Ms. Casas currently serves Director of Education and Research for Latin America (Sésamo), charged with working with multidisciplinary teams to ensure that all social impact projects in the region advance Sesame Workshop’s mission of helping children grow stronger, smarter and kinder. Ms. Casas also oversees the development of educational content for diverse children’s programming and the design and implementation of community engagement programs throughout the region, seeking to ensure the educational effectiveness of each project and demonstrate and document lessons learned on the ground.