Donna Dervishian-Aldred, project associate, specializes in project management, business development, communications and marketing, and multi-disciplinary team collaboration. Drawing on this expertise, she advances innovative projects that promote children’s well-being and school readiness by enhancing early learning and engaging families.

For EDC’s Center for Early Childhood Professionals and Young Mathematicians, Dervishian-Aldred heads up operations and marketing, plays a key role in budget and contract management, and creates content and manages social media, newsletters, and websites.

Previously at EDC, Dervishian-Aldred coordinated the technical assistance, professional learning, and information dissemination efforts of national and regional centers focused on early childhood continuous quality improvement. To this work, she brought a strong sense of devotion to the nonprofit early childhood sector as a beneficiary of Head Start services.

Dervishian-Aldred holds a BA in Business Communications from Southern New Hampshire University and has PMD Pro Certification as a project manager from APMG International.