Meet EHD's Director of Education

We are pleased to help you bring the benefits of prenatal education to your students and your community. We invite you to use our educational resources to help your students learn about prenatal development and appreciate the vital link between prenatal health and lifelong health.

Please feel free to share stories of how our resources are impacting your students. We would also love to hear your suggestions for other resources that would help you teach this important subject. Contact us anytime.

Alika Hope Despotopoulos, M.A.
Alika Hope Despotopoulos directs teacher training and curriculum development at The Endowment for Human Development. She received a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from the University of Notre Dame, and minored in dance at St. Mary's College. She received her master of arts degree in early childhood special education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Alika has more than 10 years of experience as an educator, including working with Early Head Start, Head Start, private and parochial schools, and New York City public schools. She spent two years as coordinator of a pediatric literacy program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Alika was previously a full-time and adjunct faculty member of the teacher education department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

In addition to her work as an educator, Alika is a singer and actor whose work has included everything from Off-Broadway shows to professional yodeling.

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