Alumni Spotlight: Deborah Dugan

EduGators Who Are Making a Difference — Deborah Dugan

Deborah Dugan (BAE ‘80) is the current CEO of (RED), a non-profit organization that is working to end the world transmission of AIDS from mothers to their babies. Co-founded by music star Bono, (RED) took on Deborah Dugan as their CEO in 2011. Since then (RED) has partnered up with global corporations such as The Coca-Cola Company, Bank of America and several others in efforts to make the prevention of AIDs easy and accessible on a mass scale. Prior to (RED), Deborah has served as President of Disney Publishing Worldwide, overseeing 275 magazines and publishing for more than 4,000 new book titles. Deborah has written for the Huffington Post and McKinsey’s Social Innovation publication and was also named one of the “100 Most Powerful Women” by Forbes Magazine. Deborah is making us proud – Go EduGators!

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