Enola Garland

Executive Director, Colorado AEYC

Enola Garland is the Program and Operations Manager at the Early Childhood Council Leadership Alliance and is also the part-time Executive Director for the Colorado Association for the Education of Young Children. She transitioned to the systems-building side of early childhood education after almost nine years as an early childhood teacher working with children ages 3-5. In 2013, she stumbled into a position as a teacher’s aide in California where she discovered her passion for promoting healthy social-emotional development. Since then, she has worked in a variety of program models, including Head Start and the Colorado Preschool Program, and is certified in the Family Child Care Environmental Rating Scale and the Classroom Assessment Scoring System for Pre-K to 3rd Grade. She considers herself to be a proud and passionate advocate for early childhood and envisions a world where ECE educators are respected, supported, and fairly compensated for the important work that they do.