Caroline Rakus-Wojciechowski is a social entrepreneur, mentor, and young professional in international education development with more than seven years of interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral experience in public speaking, research, gender equality, youth empowerment, educational inclusion and well-being, cross-cultural competencies, education in emergencies, and sustainable development. Currently, she is the monitoring & evaluation specialist at MapWorks Learning. Rakus-Wojciechowski is a published author on refugee educational inclusion in the DC-Maryland-Virginia area through the Refugee Educational Advancement Laboratory. Rakus-Wojciechowski’s work extends across four continents, and she is fluent in English, Polish, and Spanish. She has been a youth ambassador to conferences held by the United Nations Association of the USA, the World Bank, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Organization for Migration, UN-Habitat, the UN Economic and Social Council, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the Munich Security Conference Foundation, where she delivered policy recommendations.

She has also presented at academic conferences on experiential learning (Washington Consortium Student Research Conference), gender equality (George Washington University Diversity Summit), and educational inclusion for refugees, displaced persons, and migrants (Comparative and International Education Society Conference). Rakus-Wojciechowski previously worked for organizations such as UNESCO, Coalescion, Q-Q Research Consultants, EnCompass LLC, Global Policy Insights, and BlueRidge Impact Consulting. Rakus-Wojciechowski holds an MA in international education from the George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development and a BA in anthropology from Harvard College.