Anna Costalas, MPA

Digital Marketing & Communications Manager | Marketing & Communications
Phone: 240-821-9388

Image Description: Headshot photo of Anna Costalas, a smiling olive skinned queer with short greyish black hair and brown eyes, wearing tortoise glasses and a button down shirt with a book filled bookcase in the background.

Anna Costalas, MPA, serves as the Digital Marketing and Communications Manager at AUCD. Anna manages and provides leadership in AUCD’s digital communications and marketing activities, including live and recorded webinars, in-person meetings and other events, website content, electronic newsletters, social media, and printed materials. AUCD’s multiple projects each utilize some combination of these information dissemination activities, and this position works across projects to ensure coordination, consistency, and accessibility of activities.

Anna brings over 20 years of experience in community outreach for underrepresented communities, including working as the Program Coordinator for the Rochester Institute of Technology Women's Center violence prevention efforts funded by the Department of Justice; Communications and Development Coordinator for The Advocacy Center, a Parent Training and Information Center also in Rochester, NY; and the Information and Resource Manager at the parent-run Support for Families of Children with Disabilities in San Francisco, CA.

Anna received a Master of Public Administration degree from the State University of New York, The College at Brockport, focused on non-profit management, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Applied Photo from Rochester Institute of Technology.