About me
Maria Beebe has an M.A. in Social Science and a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University. Her research interests include critical discourse analysis, women’s leadership, and communication technologies (ICT) for development. Maria has over twenty years of experience in global development in higher education. Maria has lived and worked in South Africa, Liberia, the Philippines, Sudan, and Afghanistan.
Although retired in 2020, she launched Kaisipan, Inc. as a non-profit to advance the digital capabilities of educators in the Philippines. Maria is a consultant to co-create an Asia Open RAN Academy based in the Philippines that will eventually serve the Indo-Pacific. Maria and James have been married for 53 years and have two children, David and Ligaya, and four grands--Jaxon, River, Harry, and Rob.
Maria received the Top Hat award in 2020, the Continuing Influential Filipina Women in 2019, the Global FWN100™ 2013, and the U.S. FWN100™ 2011. Maria edited four Filipina Women's Network (FWN) books about the leadership of Filipina women.