Rhoda Odigboh

Rhoda Odigboh is a seasoned education leader with nearly 20 years of experience driving large-scale education transformation across Africa. She leads strategy, partnerships, and systems change at Kizazi, where she oversees programs that directly serve over 35,000 students and reach more than 2 million children through government adoption across India, Sierra Leone, and Armenia.

Her background spans instructional design, public-private partnerships, and the delivery of national reform programs. Before stepping into her current role, she served as Kizazi’s Head of Africa Programs. Prior to that, she was Regional Director of Academics at NewGlobe, where she led academic strategy for government partnerships and state-wide interventions such as EdoBEST and EKOEXCEL, training over 14,000 educators and school leaders.

Rhoda also serves as Vice President of the Professional Association of Curriculum Theorists in Nigeria (PACTPiN) and sits on the boards of Let Cerebral Palsy Kids Learn Foundation and AIFA Reading Society.