LNH Staff

Edda Cantor, Executive Director
ecantor@leadershipnh.org

Edda Cantor is the Executive Director of Leadership New Hampshire.   She has held this position since November of 2001.  In  this capacity, she is responsible for the development of curriculum for the session days, ongoing alumni programming, as well as the administration of the organization.  Edda has been  busy adding new program components and incorporating learning about the most recent challenges the State faces.

Edda retired from State service in January, 2001. She was the Assistant Commissioner for the New Hampshire Department of Corrections. After the untimely death of the Commissioner, she was appointed by the Governor to lead the department for nine months.

Edda has served in various capacities within the department since 1980. Edda served as the first Warden of the Women's Prison for five years. Prior to this she was a Unit Manager, Program Administrator and Social Worker at the New Hampshire State Prison in Concord.

Since leaving State service Edda has been a consultant assisting in major project implementations nationally. She has worked in the Corrections field in New Mexico and Vermont for the American Correctional Association and the National Institute of Corrections. She testified as an expert witness in a Federal Court case in Michigan. Additionally, she has been working with L3P Associates, a consulting firm specializing in information system readiness, in Iowa.

She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from American University in Washington, D.C. and a Masters of Education in Counseling from Antioch/New England Graduate School in Keene, N.H.