Stefani Alexander

To celebrate Women’s History Month, Dress For Success Washington, DC we’re highlighting Stefani Alexander, Vice President, Corporate Health at Edelman. Stefani is a public relations and public affairs professional with over six years of agency experience specializing in stakeholder engagement, strategic planning, creative content development and corporate reputation management. Her clients have included trade associations, corporations and organizations in the healthcare, technology, association, non-profit and government sectors. 

Outside of client work, Stefani enjoys serving as a mentor to rising communications professionals and leveraging her communications expertise to give back to her community. In 2021, Stefani was awarded for leadership and expertise with the Washington Women in PR Emerging Leaders Award in the boutique agency category. 

Stefani has been involved with Dress For Success Washington, DC for several years as a volunteer, helping with and providing support for donation days, shopping events, the Power Breakfast, and the Little Black Dress Club. She continues to lend her time, communications and event support wherever she can. 

Check out Stefani’s three pieces of advice for women who are entering the workforce for the first time, making a career change, or reentering the workforce. 

#1 – Keep in touch with your network, always. Your network is more robust than you think.Look at your friends, family, past colleagues or coworkers and people you volunteer with. You never know where help could come from in your network. Make sure that you're building that network and keeping in touch. 

#2 – Keep track of your accomplishments. Keep a notebook and write down your wins, your triumphs and your accomplishments. This will serve as a great reminder for you to look at every now and then and take stock of everything you've accomplished. Second, it will be helpful when it comes time for reviews or promotion and raise discussions. Always keep track of those accomplishments and don't forget to talk about them all the time! 

#3 – Since we're talking during Women's History Month, I think as women, and particularly as Black women and women of color, we're going to face negative and often biased voices. Don't internalize that. Be confident in the value that you bring, know your worth and speak up for yourself and others in all situations.