Katie Maeve Murphy is an Early Childhood Technical Advisor at the International Rescue Committee or IRC. Katie has worked in over 20 countries around the world and has recently focused on early childhood development systems in crisis settings. Katie first started working with the IRC in 2005 as the Education Manger for Darfurian refugees in Northeastern Chad. And after spending several years working at The Earth Institute at Columbia University and returning to her studies at UPenn, she just recently returned to the IRC in January of this year. IRC is at work in over 40 countries and is one of the leading global agencies responding to the world’s worst humanitarian crises while helping people to survive and build their lives.