Dress for Success Worldwide is pleased to welcome Arlene Lozano as their new Chief Affiliate Impact Officer.

Arlene comes to Dress for Success Worldwide from New York Cares, where she served as the Chief Program Officer. Arlene has also held executive roles at Orbis International and Covenant House International.

At New York Cares, Arlene focused on restructuring program operations, including rebuilding the program leadership team and redoubling efforts to hit the divisional growth targets, ending five years of continuous decline.

Prior to that, Arlene held progressive leadership positions at two international organizations. First at Covenant House International for six years and then Orbis International for five years. In these roles she led the assessment and restructuring of their global affiliate process and programs to meet new organizational goals across Latin America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Arlene built robust people infrastructures that underpin the delivery of quality programs across the world with measurable evidence of impact.

At Dress for Success Worldwide Arlene will lead Worldwide’s support to, services for, and development of the licensed global affiliate network. She will drive the transformation of the entire affiliate support and engagement process. Arlene’s new role will be instrumental in transitioning the Worldwide entity to its future state as a capacity-builder of strong and impactful local affiliates around the world.

Arlene is excited to join Dress for Success Worldwide as the new Chief Affiliate Impact Officer.

About Dress for Success

Dress for Success^® is an international nonprofit organization that empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire, and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. Since its inception in 1997, Dress for Success has served over 1.3 million women from diverse backgrounds around the world.

Globally, the barriers to economic independence that women encounter are complex and systemic, including lack of access to opportunity, education, childcare, transportation, and more. Dress for Success responds to these challenges by providing workforce development programs for unemployed and underemployed women that are customized to meet the needs of each local community. Key offerings include career coaching and readiness; upskilling and reskilling; networking and community; and styling and professional attire.

For more information about Dress for Success Worldwide, please visit https://dressforsuccess.org.