Dawn DiStefano

Professor - Non Profit Senior Manager - College Administrator

Retail Banking and Investment Representative

Dawn is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Business and a tenured full-time Assistant Professor at Molloy College.

Before her transition back to academia, Dawn was a Senior Gift Officer at the American Red Cross heading up fundraising initiatives for Long Island. Some of her accomplishments were doubling fundraising goals for their Annual Gala as well as securing a quarter of a million dollar donation within her first six months of employment.

Dawn also had a distinguished career at Nassau Community College. She was a full-time professor in the Marketing Department focused on her teaching, committee work, advisement, recruitment, social responsibility and grants. Dawn later received an award for Servicing Learning in May 2011.

Later that year, she was promoted to her role as Executive Director of the Nassau Community College Foundation. Dawn’s primary focus was growing student scholarships, pioneering the electronic offering of student scholarships directly online with faculty and Presidential support, managing grants, special events and various college-related fundraising initiatives. She was later awarded a Humanitarian Award by AHRC of Suffolk for her contribution to her students as well as her local community in March 2013.

Her primary career was in banking and finance where she held a position as Client Service Specialist at Charles Schwab & Co. focusing on daily cashiering, transfer of accounts and retention dealing with death and divorce. After acquiring her Series 7, Series 63, and other managerial licenses, Dawn became an Investment Consultant at Fidelity Investments.

Dawn holds degrees from Nassau Community College (AAS – Legal Studies), Hofstra University (BBA – Business and awarded Top Scholar for her graduating class), Dowling College (MBA – Business) and Pace University, Manhattan campus (DPS – Business/Marketing concentration).

DPS Dissertation – The Influence of Innovative Product Design and Brand Personality on Purchase Intent: Valuing Persons With Special Needs.