CCNY's Dee Dee Mozeleski has been named to City & State’s 2025 Trailblazers in Economic Development list.
In recent years, Dee Dee Mozeleski’s outstanding work in philanthropy, advertising, marketing and public relations has earned her top honors from Crain’s New York Business and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The accolades continue for The City College of New York’s senior vice president of the Office of Institutional Advancement, Communications and External Relations (OIACER), who also serves as executive director of the Foundation for City College, Inc., and as senior advisor to the CCNY President. Mozeleski has been named to City & State’s 2025 Trailblazers in Economic Development list.
The honor recognizes influential people dedicated to enhancing economic opportunities in New York.
City & State cites Mozeleski for wearing many hats at The City College, “where she helps advance economic and workforce development programs.”
She’s hailed for launching the Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Development Initiative, “which aims to expand job training in transportation, construction and clean energy and provide pathways to jobs in the industry. Mozeleski also oversees the Zahn Innovation Center, a startup incubator program featuring coworking space, hackathons and bootcamps for entrepreneurs. Additionally, Mozeleski serves as executive director of the Foundation for City College and senior adviser to the school’s president.”
“I’m thrilled that Dee Mozeleski is getting this recognition for her contributions to workforce development,” said CCNY President Vincent G. Boudreau. “She is smart and dedicated, certainly. But one other fact jumps off the page for me: her initial and continuing work at CCNY put her in charge of our philanthropic and communications departments (not workforce development!). What makes her a true pathbreaker in this field, however, is her recognition that a modern approach to workforce development will combine philanthropy, government relations, grant writing, community outreach, and industry partnerships. Dee has great capacity in each of these fields, and by weaving them together in her work, she excels as an innovator in the field—a true pathbreaker.”
Mozeleski’s recent honors have recognized these skills.
Last June, she was named a 2025 Crain’s New York Business Notable Leader in Philanthropy for her commitment to advancing her industry and community.
In 2023, Mozeleski was named a Crain’s Notable in Advertising, Marketing & PR, a recognition of top leaders in those fields in the New York metro area. And in 2021, she was named a CASE District II Professional of the Year and a Crain’s New York Business’ Notable in Nonprofits and Philanthropy.
The Professional of the Year award recognizes a District II institutional advancement professional who has demonstrated exceptional achievement in the development of an institutional advancement program or innovative execution of programs within an area of advancement; contributed to the profession through work with CASE; and volunteered in service to the community or charitable organizations. The Crain’s list of Notables in Nonprofits and Philanthropy was a celebration of 57 New York heroes who facilitated or led nonprofit work in the face of the pandemic. All of the honorees who made the list were chosen for their effort to help New Yorkers ride out the upheaval wrought by Covid-19.
Mozeleski is a cabinet member of CASE’s District II, a board member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ New York City chapter and an ethics committee member of AFP Global; and a board member and mentor of the National Scholarship Providers Association.
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