Arlene Hirschfeld

Arlene Hirschfeld (born 1944) is an American community activist. Since the 1980s, she has served on the board of trustees of numerous Denver and Colorado state organizations, working in advisory, leadership, and fundraising capacities. She earned her B.A. in English from the University of Denver in 1966.

From 1966 to 1970, she taught English at the Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver, also serving as an American Field Service sponsor.

Community activism Hirschfeld became active in local and state organizations and nonprofits on an almost full-time basis the MDC Richmond American Homes Foundation, the Children's Diabetes Foundation of Denver, Breathe Better Foundation, the Mizel Museum, and the Colorado Governor's Residence Preservation Fund. She is an honorary trustee of the Women's Foundation of Colorado, and an emeritus member of the board of trustees of the Anti-Defamation League. the 1997 Denver Women of Distinction award from Girl Scouts of Colorado, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the 2002 Rex Morgan Award, the 2003 Colorado Philanthropy Day Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser Award, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Business Social Responsibility Award. She and her husband were the 2018 recipients of the Community Service in the Arts Award from the Bonfils–Stanton Foundation. ) founded by his grandfather in 1907, and A. B. Hirschfeld & Sons, a real estate company. In the mid-1970s, the couple purchased Shangri-La, an Denver mansion built by movie theater owner Harry E. Huffman as a replica of the monastery featured in the 1937 film Lost Horizon.