Paula Alvarado

Paula serves as Program Manager for E+I Operations. She supports the day-to-day activities in the areas of facilities, human resources, accounting, and technology. As well as regularly collaborating with Edson E+I leadership and cross-functional teams to ensure tasks are completed in accordance with priorities, timing, and funding limitations.

Prior to her role at Edson E+I, Paula served as an Administrative Assistant at ASU’s Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center and the Global Center for Applied Health Research. Paula also held administrative and management positions in the cemetery and funeral industry. Her love for reading led her to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with a concentration in Creative Writing, from California State University of Northridge.

What entrepreneurship means to Paula is "an individual who holds the creative capacity to take their dreams and achieve them by moving forward in the direction they choose.”