Alda began working as a classroom teacher with preschoolers in 1976. She continued working in private center-based childcare for almost 20 years, moving from teaching to administration. When the childcare system resource and referral system (now Care About Childcare) was developing in Utah and nationwide, she was a director of a childcare resource and referral agency which based in Utah County. For several years this agency served eight counties, including very rural areas where no regulated childcare existed. After seven years in resource and referral, she began working at The Children’s Center in Salt Lake City where is has been employed for the past 22 years growing programs in Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation.
Alda grew up in Salt Lake City taking adventurous forays into other geographic regions of the country including the east coast, west coast and mid-west but always returning to her roots in Utah where she has an extensive network of personal and professional family and friends. Her current household consists of her spouse Hoda and a foster cat named Wally.
