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Karen Altfest in Conversation with Wendy Longwood of Dress for Success
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Recently, Karen Altfest was in conversation with Wendy Longwood, COO of Dress for Success in honor of Women’s History Month.
Wendy is a very accomplished woman who believes in nonprofits and helping other women advance in their careers. Dress for Success is a global nonprofit organization that provides professional attire for low-income women, to help support their job-search and interview process.
Watch Karen and Wendy discuss women’s history and learn how Dress for Success helps to achieve women’s economic empowerment and other needs on a global scale:
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Karen C. Altfest, CFP, Ph.D
Karen helps many of the firm’s clients on a variety of investment and financial planning issues, and specializes in helping women clients and widows. Karen’s Financially Savvy Woman® programs, including the Women’s Financial $pa®, are popular with clients. Her focus is to educate and empower women.
Karen is frequently a speaker on the subject of women and money, and conducts educational seminars for recent widows and people looking to retire. Karen is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, holds BA and MA degrees from Hunter College, and holds the CFP® designation. Karen received her Ph.D. in history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).
She was the Co-Director of the Financial Planning and Investments Program at The New School in New York City and the Coordinator of the Financial Planning program, a professional program for financial planners, which she originated at Pace University in White Plains, N.Y.
