Edith Mukudi Omwami is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Previously she served as Coordinator for the HIV/AIDS in Africa Initiative of the UCLA Globalization Research Center- Africa and was Coordinator for the UCLA/ USAID Collaborative Research Support Program Child Nutrition Project in Kenya. Her research focuses on educational access, participation and funding of education; nutrition and education linkages, education policy and practice; gender and education; and African education.