Women in Leadership Advisor Member

Carmen Ferro

Active Term: 10/2024 - 10/2025

Areas of Expertise

• Pillars of Positivity
  
• Inspiring Emotional Intelligence
  
• Improving Communication Habits
  
• Driving Ideas, Intellectual Growth & Transformation
  
• Transformational Vs. Transactional Leadership

Director of Communications

American Institutes for Research

Carmen Ferro is Director of Communications at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). She works with leadership to develop and implement a strategic communications plan to extend the reach of AIR research projects on topics such as workforce development, youth justice, education, and child welfare. Ferro specializes in synthesizing and translating data, research, and evidence for nontechnical audiences, including policymakers, journalists, program administrators, technical assistance providers, and research funders.

​She conceptualizes and develops written content for practitioners (such as fact sheets, blog posts, case studies, infographics, and electronic newsletters) and multimedia content for broader audiences (such as videos, data visualizations, podcasts, and webinars). Before joining AIR in 2022, Ferro was senior public affairs manager at Mathematica for nine years. She is based out of her home office in Branford, CT.

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