Diane S. Nahabedian

Diane S. Nahabedian

Executive Director

Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers

Diane serves as the Executive Director of Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers. Diane has spent over 30 years working with organizations to enhance their stature through outreach that includes development, marketing, communications, and strategic partnership recruitment efforts and to ensure organizational financial security. Prior to Helping Hands, she spent four years at the Rhode Island Zoological Society/Roger Williams Park Zoo as the Director of Marketing and Public Relations. She has worked for two YMCA systems including the YMCA of Greater Boston and the YMCA of Greater Providence forging disparate groups of multiple YMCA branches and satellite locations into cohesive, productive, high-functioning, and results-driven teams. She has also spent time in the social service and healthcare arenas raising funds and developing public and media relations campaigns for Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Boston and Central New England Health Alliance.