Aubryn Sidle
Lecturer; Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Aubryn Allyn Sidle is a mixed methods policy researcher, whose expertise is located at the intersection of community-driven development, gender policy, and education in sub-Saharan Africa. She collaborates with community practitioners, schools, and program implementers to develop research that is relevant to communities’ needs and informs the policy, practice and measurement of quality education for diverse young people.
Dr. Sidle co-leads research to develop, adapt and implement the first practitioner-led psychometric measure of adolescent girls’ agency known as the AGAS (Adolescent Girls Agency Survey), developed in collaboration with 18 East African leaders. The AGAS is a contextualized measure of social emotional learning (SEL) outcomes and is in use by 45 NGOs and CBOs operating in seven countries to evaluate the impact of school-based life skills programs.
Dr. Sidle also serves as Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Brenda Oulo, on a mixed methods cluster Randomized Control Trial and process tracing study evaluating the impact of the Binti Shupavu (Courageous Daughters) program on improving girls’ retention and achievement in secondary school in rural Tanzania. She is a former NGO executive and has served as counsel to NGOs and nonprofits on questions of governance, strategic planning, program design and evaluation over the course of a 15-year consulting career. Her work has been featured by policy bodies such as the Global Partnership for Education at the World Bank, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, The United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative, and The Brookings Institution.
Dr. Sidle received her Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University and an M.S. in Development Management from the London School of Economics. Her undergraduate degree in Anthropology and Africana Studies is also from Cornell University.
She currently serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) for the Brooks School.