Jerry Aldridge, Ed.D., professor emeritus in the UAB School of Education, is a representative to the United Nations for the World Organization for Early Childhood Education. World OMEP, a non-profit child advocacy organization, has national committees in more than 60 countries divided into five geographical regions: Africa, Asia and the Pacific Rim, Europe, Latin America and North America and the Caribbean. Aldridge will serve with two other appointees — one from Boston, the other from Italy. Together, they will help families and communities around the world educate their children.