Welcome to Development & Alumni Relations

Josh Aiello currently serves as the Vice President for Development at Boston University. He joined Boston University in 2013 and began his tenure at BU as the Assistant Dean for Development and Alumni Relations at Sargent College. He proudly held leadership roles during the University’s first comprehensive campaign which concluded in September 2019, having raised a record $1.85 billion in gifts from more than 175,000 alumni, parents and friends. In his role now, he oversees the Offices of Planned Giving, Major Giving, School Development, and Stewardship and Donor Relations.

Josh has more than a fifteen years of experience in educational advancement, but prior to that his career focused primarily on direct service to the community. He taught service learning courses at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and led emergency response efforts during major natural disasters.

Josh received a Bachelor’s degree from Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH and an Master’s in Education from Boston University.

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.

Tristan Barako has broad experience as a fundraiser, writer, and researcher in diverse settings, especially higher education, health care, and media production. For the past four years at BU, he has led the Foundation Relations team, which identifies and secures private institutional funding for most of the University’s schools and colleges. Previously he served as Senior Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Massachusetts General Hospital and Senior Research Development Specialist at Brown University, where he focused on federal funding. Before working in fundraising, he researched, wrote, and edited scripts for highly rated, award-winning documentaries appearing on America Public Television (PBS/NOVA). Tristan trained as an archaeologist, receiving his MA and PhD at Harvard University, during which time he excavated and surveyed throughout the Mediterranean region, both on land and at sea.

A national leader and award-winning pioneer in the field of Talent Management, Amy has spent 25 plus years contributing to the success of fundraising both on the frontline and behind the scenes. She has a remarkable ability to help development professionals make the right career moves and achieve success for their organization’s mission. She has touched the lives of hundreds of professionals and her impact can be seen by the increasing level of professionalism in the advancement industry as well as through the success of the institutions that she’s worked for, which include Harvard Law School, and Boston College. Currently managing talent, finance, and operations for a team of 265, Amy has served in leadership roles and presented at numerous conferences and other professional organizations both locally and nationally. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she lives in Milton, MA.

Lara Brown de Fuenmayor joined Boston University as Assistant Vice President for School Development in March 2022. In her current role, she oversees strategy for the School-Based Development and Alumni Relations teams for BU’s 17 Schools and Colleges and directly manages the teams embedded within the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, and Questrom School of Business. Prior to this role, Lara was Assistant Dean for Advancement for North Carolina State University’s College of Natural Resources and President of the NC State Natural Resources Foundation. She previously served for 10 years as Assistant Dean for External Relations in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has also held development positions at Johns Hopkins University and INSEAD.

Lara earned her B.A. in French Interdisciplinary Studies from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and her Master’s in International Economics and Management from SDA Bocconi School in Milan, Italy.

Juhi Ginger Dagli is the associate vice president of international giving and global leadership development at Boston University. In this role, she works closely with University leadership—president, provost, and deans of the University’s 18 schools and colleges—to elevate the global brand, support the strategic vision, and enhance global engagement through increased philanthropy from international alumni, parents, and friends of the University. Juhi started at BU 14 years ago and has built a team of international advancement professionals covering the globe, seeking to advance the University’s strategic vision.

Prior to joining Boston University, Juhi served as the executive director of the Dubai Initiative at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In this role, she enabled collaboration between the government of Dubai and the Kennedy School to establish a Dubai School of Government. Juhi also worked as a senior analyst for Abt Associates Inc. for several years, focusing on domestic policy reform in education, workforce development, and health, as well as international development projects in the Middle East and Africa. One such project included a year in Iraq supporting the team to establish a $6 million small grants program in twelve months for a $45 million project focused on Health Systems Strengthening funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Ginger was born in Mumbai, India. She finished part of her schooling in Dubai, UAE and grew up in Dubai, UAE, and Salalah, Sultanate of Oman, before relocating to Boston. She has a bachelor’s degree in marine science and aquaculture from Boston University. Ginger serves on the board of the Learning Project Elementary School and on the corporation board of the Community Music Center of Boston.

A distinguished leader and respected trailblazer in the realm of Development, Ron’s extensive professional background spans major and principal gifts, foundation relations, and corporate philanthropy, both domestically and on the global stage. Ron joined Boston University in April 2017 as the Associate Vice President of School Development. In this role, he guided the development teams for the Questrom School of Business, the School of Law, the Pardee School of Global Studies, and the College of Arts & Sciences. In July 2020, with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s arrival and introduction of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, Ron expanded his focus to encompass Special Initiatives and was appointed as the Associate Vice President for Special Initiatives, his current role.

Prior to his time at BU, Ron served as the Director of Global Initiatives at MIT, where he held responsibility for principal giving initiatives in Europe. Ron also spent over a decade in the United Kingdom where he assumed the role of Chief Development Officer for the University of Warwick, followed by Loughborough University. His career in development also includes positions at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Chicago.
As a student, Ron obtained a B.A. in both English and Business Administration from Principia College. Additionally, he obtained an MBA in Management from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.

As the Associate Vice President of Advancement Information Strategies at Boston University, Kerri Saucier oversees Business Intelligence, Prospect Strategies, Prospect Management, Prospect Research, Gift Accounting and Records management for the office of Development and Alumni Relations. She also serves as the DAR liaison to various offices on campus, providing strategic guidance on gift compliance, gift accounting, data integration and space management.

She is known as innovative Advancement Services leader who leads change with a focus on talent development and the integration of state-of-the-art technology. Kerri has been instrumental in streamlining fundraising operations in both research university and liberal arts settings where she has successfully overseen campaign management, information strategies, data architecture, gift compliance and talent development. Her experience includes leadership roles at Smith College, Fordham University, and the College of the Holy Cross where she was the Director of Campaign Management and Advancement Operations prior to coming to Boston University in September 2022. Kerri holds degrees from American International College and Yale Divinity/Andover Newton TS. She lives in the Boston’s South End neighborhood where she is an active volunteer with her service dog.