The Team
Meet Our HAYVN Team
Malú Bojanovich
Associate Director of Operations
Plan your life around your dreams and watch them come true.
- Anonymous
Brooke Dempster
Community Manager
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
- Dolly Parton
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
Moira Maggio
Membership Manager
Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.
- Roy T. Bennett
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
Karen Alison
HAYVN Host
Carolina Amigo
HAYVN Host
Janis Chilson
HAYVN Host
Alana D'Angelica
HAYVN Host
Amy De Paz
HAYVN Host
Melissa Ellard
HAYVN Host
Yainnix Espinoza
HAYVN Host
Gaby Mank
HAYVN Host
Christine Oleynick
HAYVN Host
Trish Skidmore
HAYVN Host
Rosanna Tirrito
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