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, Donna 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, Donna 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.

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