Joanne Malone is Head of Education at Rethink Ireland, a not-for-profit organisation committed to supporting social innovations to maximise their impact in Ireland. Rethink Ireland provides cash grants and non-financial supports to its awardees to help them maximise their impact. Joanne has worked in the education NGO sector since 2008 on various initiatives to tackle educational disadvantage. She has a particular interest in educational assessment and completed an MSc in Educational Assessment at the University of Oxford in 2022.