The Team
Meet Our HAYVN Team
Jessie Cannizzo
Administrative Manager
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Brooke Dempster
Community Manager
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
– Dolly Parton
Melissa Ellard
Operations Manager
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
– Coco Chanel
Leslie Kumar
Events Manager
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear. It’s about getting up one more time than when we fall down.
– Arianna Huffington
Gaby Mank
Guest Solutions & Business Development Manager
Even where the bricks are stacked, love is blooming through the cracks.
– Anaïs Mitchell
Kristen Rzasa
Community Engagement
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
– Ghandi
Felicia Rubinstein
Chief Collaborator, HAYVN
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you’ve imagined.
– Thoreau
Karen Schiffres
Marketing Communications
Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
– Audrey Hepburn
HAYVN Hosts
Karyn Bennitt
HAYVN Host
Janis Chilson
HAYVN Host
Stacey Urvina-Chimbo
HAYVN Host
Alana D'Angelica
HAYVN Host
Amy De Paz
HAYVN Host
Delilah Foster
HAYVN Host
Christine Oleynick
HAYVN Host
Advisory Board
HAYVN has been inspired by a strong advisory team to make our vision a reality.
Alexis Brooks
Lampert Toohey & Rucci LLC
Janet Defrino
Partner, Muse Advisor
Michele Graham
Sr. Director of Strategy, MarketSmiths
Janet Grapengeter
Director, Design and Compliance at Columbia University
Nancy Sheed
Social Media Marketing & Communications Consultant
Founding Advisory Board Members
- Kim Barron, Founder, New Leaf Graphics
- Carolyn Eddie, Owner, Absolutely Fabulous Events
- Kendra Farn, Founder, P Garyn Productions
- Linda Kuppersmith, Chief Technology Advisor & President CMIT Solutions Stamford
- Megan McAllister, Senior Program Officer, Altman Foundation
- Marie Rocha, Cofounder/Managing Partner at Realist Ventures
- Jamie Russo, CEO at Global Workspace Association
- Christine Sullivan, Business Advisor, SBDC
- Callie Sullivan, Principal at Sullivan Property Holdings
- Sue Yasav, Marketing Professional