A programme of:
Carmen Strigel
Born to parents who were both teachers, Carmen Strigel first chose the path of education and later discovered in technology a new way of teaching. From Brussels to North Carolina, she has woven a career marked by the conviction that learning and teaching are the same verb, merely conjugated in different tenses.
Sobre Carmen Strigel
< View All ContributorsThe teacher who found in technology an infinite classroom
Her father taught mathematics, physics, and chemistry in Germany; her mother, a hairdresser with steady hands and a patient voice, trained future stylists in a vocational school. Around the Strigel family table, every meal became a parallel classroom where pedagogy mingled with the soup. In those conversations—about students, exams, and anecdotes from school—it seemed only natural that Carmen would choose to become a teacher. She taught mathematics, English, and geography to teenagers in a German secondary school.
But a year in Sweden shifted her course: there she became fascinated by how media and technology could become allies of learning. From there, Brussels was a short and natural leap, working with ministries of education across Europe. Then came North Carolina, a master’s degree shared between UNC and Duke, and an almost fortuitous beginning at RTI, which now counts more than two decades in her professional journey.