Berkley Center

Gwendolyn Heaner works as a social research consultant and managing director of GK Consulting. She specializes in research design, fieldwork, analysis, and training on matters pertaining to education, social change, participation/democracy, religion and culture, gender, public health, and service delivery/infrastructure. Her field research has been primarily in West Africa. Outside of GK Consulting she is also a research fellow at University of Massachusetts Center for International Education, working as the research manager for a USAID funded five-year contract on education in conflict and crisis affected environments. Heaner received her Ph.D. from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies in the study of religions, focusing on the social role(s) of Pentecostalism and other forms of Christianity in post-conflict Liberia.