Meg Ramey, Ph.D.

Meg Ramey, PhD, is Founder and Executive Director of WorldKind, an award-winning learning experience design firm that aims to bring the best practices of instructional design into the world of international education. Since its inception in 2020, WorldKind has provided instructional design services to 20+ international education organizations and trained 13,000+ students before studying abroad.

As an instructional designer and international educator with over 25 years of experience across corporate, non-profit, higher education, and K-12 spaces across 5 continents, Dr. Ramey understands the pressures institutions face to provide effective and ethical training, particularly when it comes to international travel and cultural competency.

That’s why in 2023, she led the launch of the WorldKind Academy, a cloud-based, interactive training platform, to reduce administrative burden while ensuring comprehensive student preparation. The platform’s flagship “Traveler Trainer PROgram” now delivers expert Travel Health & Safety Training in an interactive, scenario-based format designed to boost Gen Z engagement and retention to 10,000+ students annually. 

Under her leadership, WorldKind has won the Forum’s inaugural InnovateEA prize (2025), placed second in DAGlobal's Innovation competition (2024), and has been a finalist for GoAbroad’s Innovation awards in “Sustainability” (2024), “Diversity” (2025), and “Technology” (2023, 2024, 2025). 

Additionally, Dr. Ramey has been a frequent speaker at universities and international education conferences, such as PACIE (Pennsylvania Council on International Education), NAFSA (Association of International Educators), Forum on Education Abroad, the Global Inclusion Conference, and WISE. She has also been a part of NAFSA's Trainer Corps, and with the Forum, she's served on their International Working Group and now serves on their InnovateEA Award Committee and as a 2026 InnovateEA finalist mentor.

You can check out her instructional design portfolio here and see some of the past educational travel programs she has led here.

About Dr. Ramey's educational background: 

Dr. Ramey is a lifelong learner who has had a diverse educational background focused mainly in the humanities and social sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Literature and Biblical Studies from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland), an M.Div. with a concentration in educational psychology from Truett Seminary, Baylor University, and a B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Furman University. 

Then, Dr. Ramey served as a tenured Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Messiah University in Pennsylvania for 8 years. During that time, she published articles and chapters on both biblical studies and popular culture topics, was the editor-in-chief for the Oxford University Press "Bible in Fiction" project published on Oxford Biblical Studies Online, and occasionally wrote articles for the Biblical Archaeological Review, such as this one on "Hiking in Paul's Footsteps" in Turkey. While at Messiah, she led students on education abroad programs to 16 different countries and in 2017 served as the Program Coordinator for the university's International Business Institute. Through these experiences, she discovered a real passion for experiential learning when she saw even more growth in her students on three-week, faculty-led, education abroad programs than she did over the course of a traditional semester of classroom instruction.

So, she started transitioning to work in the international education and eLearning sectors. She started working as the Director of Education Abroad for Tutku Educational Travel, where she enjoyed working with professors in the development of customized educational travel programs. She started studying Instructional Design at IDOL Academy,℠ the first and only state-authorized vocational school for Instructional Design & Online Learning Development, and learning more about business by taking online courses from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and by joining Penn State-Harrisburg's Launch Box program (and winning the launchbox competition) and the National Science Foundation I-Corp program administered by Penn State. 

In her free time, Dr. Ramey still occasionally serves as a guest scholar on educational travel programs across the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Europe. She has served on the boards of the Harrisburg Keystone Rotary Club, YesLiberia, a non-profit that seeks to empower young people in Liberia through meaningful service-learning opportunities in education, healthcare, and technology, and now PACIE (Pennsylvania Council on International Education).

 When the weather is nice, you can find her outdoors kayaking, hiking, biking, or camping with her husband (with camera in hand and ready!). She also enjoys creating stained, fused, and sea glass mosaics; playing board games and sharing meals with friends; and, of course, working on developing WorldKind.

You can reach her at meg@worldkindlearning.com.