Dr Dolores C Calaf EdD

Dr. Dolores C. Calaf is currently a Managing Member/Consultant at the Community Consulting Collaborative, LLC as well as an Adjunct faculty at Endicott College teaching undergraduate courses to mostly adult learners in the field of Early Childhood and Education. 

Dr Dolores was the Director of the Regional Center in Lawrence of Cambridge College, where she started as a guest lecturer in 2001 while she worked at the Division of Medical Assistance with the healthcare Medicaid program - Mass Health. She came into that job after 20 years of professional experience working in different community agencies in different roles in the areas of media producer, marketing and publishing. She became an adjunct faculty at Cambridge College in 2002 and was hired as the regional director in Lawrence in July 2004. She had been a volunteer in the Community Development Advisory Committee at the College. Since she became the regional director at Cambridge College, the Center was given a regional level status where more than 1,200 students achieved their college certificate, undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as started a pre-college English program that helped more than 700 students. Dolores was also the director of Adult Education and Workforce Skills at La Alianza Hispana in Boston and the Community Outreach Supervisor at BMC Health Net Plan.

            Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Dolores has a doctoral degree in Education from Northcentral University, a master's degree in television production from Emerson College and a Bachelor of Arts and Education from the University of Sacred Heart in Puerto Rico where she earned the Arts Medal and a Cum Laude honor. She has been recognized as a Latina community leader and has received several awards; among them, Woman of the Year in 1990; Big Sister of the Year in Boston in 1990; Big Sister of the Year in Massachusetts in 2004 and one of the women who received the YWCA Tribute to Women in 2005. She was a volunteer of Semana Hispana in 1990-1991, former Board member of the Lawrence Family Development Charter School and Education Fund. She has been a volunteer and former Vice-President of the International Book Fair in Lawrence for the past few years.

            In addition to her roles as a consultant and her teaching, Dolores is a professional freelance consultant in her own time to companies and community agencies in the field of communication, marketing and community and educational campaigns in the region with her professional services group of Calaf Communications.  (www.calafcommunications.com)

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