Shelby is an advanced doctoral candidate, Presidential Merit Fellow, and Fulbright recipient in Government. Her work focuses broadly on the political economy of education and employment and on migration and forced displacement in low- and middle-income countries with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Outside of Harvard, Shelby regularly works with international organizations including the World Bank and UNHCR. Shelby began her career in education as a teacher. Following her time in the classroom, she spent five years working with the World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab and Education Global Practice on projects throughout southern Africa, Ethiopia, and Mexico. Shelby teaches courses on international aid to education and in applied statistics at HGSE. She holds master’s degrees in Global Policy Studies from the UT Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs and in Education Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a BA in Government from The University of Texas.