Shafeen Charania

My name is Shafeen Charania.

I was born in Tanzania, am Canadian and now live in the US Pacific Northwest. I have traveled and worked in many countries around the world. This has shaped my thinking profoundly.

I graduated with an engineering degree from the University of Waterloo, but have spent most of my career in various marketing and market development roles. I am presently employed by Microsoft Corporation in a marketing role in the Education Product Group.

I am routinely amazed and inspired by the educators I meet and have met. Their passion, creativity, commitment, and capacity to give is ...special. I will focus much of the conversation in this blog on education.

I am interested in developing insight by synthesizing what I learn and what's around me; connecting concepts; finding relevancy; and then communicating that in a compelling way to create outcomes.

It took the 2008 US election to get me to start writing a blog, but I hope to see it continue and speak to a breadth of topics as time happens.