Portland, OR
Anjali Varma covers education, career development, and lifelong learning from her home base in Portland, Oregon. After a first career as a high school English teacher, she earned a master’s in education policy from Harvard and worked in state-level curriculum design. Now she writes about everything from early literacy to corporate upskilling programs, always highlighting the voices of students, teachers, and frontline workers. Anjali’s writing is deeply informed by her own experience as a first-generation college graduate navigating systems that weren’t built for her. On rainy Portland afternoons, she’s often found in a used bookstore or perfecting her chai recipe. She writes to make education feel like a door that’s always open.
