Mai Ni Pham is Director, Educational Programs and Student Engagement for the Institute for Global Peace and Sustainable Governance and Vice President of Economics and Business Educators NSW, an active teachers’ association focused on professional development, networking, and advocacy. Maini uses her economics and educational qualifications and her passion for lifelong learning in her instructional role as Deputy Principal for talented and gifted secondary students. Being fascinated with ideas and learning herself, she has supplemented her qualifications with a wide range of other studies from Design Processes and Business Information Technology to Leadership. Maini is always looking for opportunities for students to work on human rights-based projects and programs that develop creative and ethical reasoning