Danielle Reddy

Danielle Reddy is a higher education professional with nearly two decades of experience in development and alumni relations. Believing that alumni give back when they can see themselves in the experience of current students, her career has focused on connecting the work of fundraising and alumni engagement by creating opportunities for strategic involvement of partners across BU’s campus. Danielle holds an undergraduate degree from Emerson College and a JD from Suffolk University.  

Danielle is the assistant vice president for alumni engagement programs at Boston University. In her role, she oversees all front-line alumni engagement for the University, connecting BU alumni with one another across the globe. Her work focuses on connecting alumni regionally, domestically and internationally, through volunteer-led networks as well as reunion programming, identity and interest groups, life stage engagement, and young alumni and student engagement. Additionally, she works with the University’s alumni boards and leadership councils, including the BU Alumni Council and the Black Alumni Leadership Council, among others. Her work bridges many areas of campus, partnering with colleagues in the Dean of Students office, the Center for Career Development, the Newbury Center, and across BU’s 17 schools and colleges.  

Prior to her time at Boston University, Danielle was the director of communities at the MIT Alumni Association, where she led a team to develop engaging student and young alumni programming as well as building robust affinity programming encompassing both identity and interest. She worked closely with colleagues and departments throughout campus with the Office of the Dean of Students, Student Organizations and Leadership, the Center for Career Advising and Professional Development, and the Office of Graduate Education to create programming and connections to allow students to benefit from alumni experience and to understand their future responsibility as alumni of MIT to give back. Danielle also served as the director of annual and leadership giving at her alma mater, Emerson College. She has served in volunteer roles with CASE, the Council for Support of Education, including co-chairing the sponsorship committee and the alumni engagement track as well as serving as a presenter for CASE and several other professional organizations.