Joel Paulin Mendoza is an education specialist with experience working for organizations such as the World Bank and the Philippine Research Institute for Teacher Quality (RITQ). A candidate for Master of Education (Ed.M.) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), he has been awarded scholarships, including the John Stevens Master Fund and the Eugenio M. Lopez Scholarship Fund. Prior, he earned his MA in Applied Policy from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) as an Australia Awards scholar and BS Education (Mathematics) from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP).