Solutions & Partnerships Consultant
Innovating education, news rooms, creative industries & more
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Three Distinct Worlds, Interlinked & Elevetated
As Mariama Wurie Consulting (MWC), I bring over 8 years of experience in tackling the world's most pressing Education Development challenges, bringing rare and often underrepresented stories to global stages, and championing Africa's world-shifting Creative & Cultural Industries (CCIs).
One thread sewing these seemingly separate yet inextricable spaces together, is direct impact on social change for communities and their infinite potential to transform the globe's structural socio-economic barriers. This is where my heart, my networks, and my expertise lie— and I am eager to join forces with YOU, to change the world together.
CRITICALLY & CreatiVELY ConnectiNG
For almost a decade I have worked with government Ministries of Education, the World Bank's Education Practice, the United Nations' education agencies, UNICEF & UNGEI, and global partners for education financing, research, policy, programming, and innovation & EdTech.
From early to basic and higher learning, to technical & skills-based education— I specialize in strategizing, innovating and connecting critical actors and movements for global education transformation.
My largest commitment and client base of my 3 consultancy sectors, I am a Global Education Development Specialist, with Master in Education (Ed.M.) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (summa cum laude).
In our increasingly interconnected world, journalism can create or close divisions by delivering facts and critical stories to divergent audiences. Our stories and crises are global: climate change to pandemics, rising inequality to supply chain disruption, political instability & the influence of AI & social media.
As a Solutions Journalist and multimedia producer, I specialize in storytelling that resonates across global audiences, with a focus on human rights, gender equality, business & tech, travel, creative and cultural industries and underreported stories.
With bylines and productions for CNN, BBC, Deutsche Welle and more, my work spans feature stories, documentaries, and news reports that have reached millions worldwide.
Amapiano, Afrobeats, Lagos Homecoming, Alté Fest, Dak'Art Biennale, 1-54 Contemporary Art Fair, Fashion Week, Nollywood and more— Africa's creative and cultural industries (CCI) are amongst the fastest growing movements employing 2.4 million across the continent, valued at over. $4.2 billion from 2019-20.
The movement is exploding even more rapidly post-pandemic.
As a Filmmaker and Creative Consultant, I produce, curate, collaborate with and champion Africa's up-and-coming Creatives with limited access to resources, and connect us with established artists, resources, partnerships, movements and more. The aim is cultural celebration, joy & sustainability, and human capital development for Africans through the arts.
About Me
Mariama
Wurie
Solutions, Partnerships & Creativity Consultant
Mariama Wurie is a Solutions Consultant dedicated to transforming the world's most complex public education and human development challenges, as a means to contribute to intersectional global sustainable growth. As an Education Specialist at organizations including Sierra Leone's Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE), the World Bank Group, and the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI), Mariama has led teams and programs for education systems strengthening, and partnerships to curb global learning poverty and reform un-inclusive education sectors. She specializes in culturally sustaining learning design, partnerships for global education development, and EdTech for accelerating learning.
In equal measure, Mariama is a 'Solutions Storyteller', Filmmaker and Creative whose work has been commissioned by leading global news networks including CNN Africa, BBC World Service, and Deustche Welle to name a few. She employs journalism to connect stories from misrepresented and underrepresented African communities to global screens— covering verticals that include politics, business and finance, tech and innovation, environment and climate, women's affairs, and the creative industries.
Mariama is a graduate of McGill University, University of the Arts London, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
