Stephanie Alman is the national director of career services at Upwardly Global, where she oversees programs that support refugee and immigrant professionals as they enter the U.S. workforce. Throughout her career, she has developed initiatives focused on economic inclusion to build a more resilient, sustainable, and equitable future, working across the nonprofit, government, and corporate sectors to realize this mission.

She has advised and consulted for international nonprofit organizations in Sri Lanka, Greece, and Morocco. While living in New York City, she launched national programs to empower women entrepreneurs through the Tory Burch Foundation and led global initiatives addressing the economic inclusion of resettled refugees and asylees at WeWork.

A Floridian-turned-New Yorker, Alman is inspired by the energy and diversity of New York City.