Denise Brown-Lozada was hired as Howard Athletics' Assistant Athletic Director for Budget and Finance in November of 2022. In her role at Howard University, Brown-Lozada will oversee the athletics’ financial operations, travel and serve as the department’s liaison for Human Resources.
Brown-Lozada arrived at Howard after four years working as the Athletics Business Manager at Pace University where she oversaw Pace Athletics’ financial operations, including the handling of the budget, contracts and managing the department’s fiscal policies and procedures while serving as the department’s liaison for Human Resources. She also helped lead Pace’s efforts in successfully adding their 15th varsity program, Esports, in 2022.
Brown-Lozada began her Pace career following her tenure at SUNY Maritime College as the Athletic Operations & Business Manager in which she was responsible for the administrative oversight of the department's financial operations, including managing the athletic budget while assisting in the day-to-day operating activities within the athletics department.
She entered the sport industry in 2009 under the legendary Hall of Famer, Tina Sloan Green and the Black Women in Sport Foundation and went on to become the first woman Community Relations intern for the NBA Brooklyn Nets during their transition from New Jersey to Brooklyn, NY.
Brown-Lozada is an active member of CABMA, MOAA, Association of African American Financial Advisors (AAAA) & the Sport & Recreation Law Association (SRLA). Most recently, she was a 2020 NCAA Division II Professional Development Grant Recipient. She was also the 2015 NACWAA Grant recipient, graduate of the 2016 Division III NCAA Institute of Administrative Advancement and accepted into the 2018 class for both the Women Leaders in College Sports and MOAA Professional Development Mentorship Programs as a mentee.
She is currently serving as a MOAA Board Member and teaches Sports Finance as an Adjunct Professor in Master’s in Sports Industry Management at Georgetown University.
She earned her Bachelor of Science in Sport & Recreation Management in 2011 from Temple University and went on to receive her Master of Science in Sport Studies from California University in California, Pennsylvania in 2012.
She and her wife Shaquana now reside in Washington, DC.
