Elizabeth Madjlesi

Elizabeth Madjlesi works out of Candid’s Washington, D.C., office as the programs manager, Northeast. In this role, she helps increase Candid’s visibility by connecting the social sector to capacity-building trainings and resources. In addition to delivering training courses on nonprofit management and fundraising best practices, she organizes special programs and networking events on topics related to philanthropy and the social sector.

Elizabeth brings to more than 10 years of experience in education and training, fundraising, and program management in the nonprofit sector. She is a proud alum of The New Teacher Project (TNTP) and served as a teaching fellow in Nashville Public Schools before moving to the D.C. area. In her previous position, she served as director of volunteer programs and later as deputy director for the Washington English Center, a community-based nonprofit English language school serving more than 1,500 adult students from more than 90 countries each year. She also serves a reviewer for the Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington’s nonprofit partner program and is a mentor for the D.C. Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) mentorship program. Elizabeth holds a master of arts in teaching from Belmont University and a graduate certificate in nonprofit executive management from Georgetown University.