Women of Interest
Sarah Crawford, Senior Writer
Sarah has a Bachelor of Journalism (BJ) from the Missouri School of Journalism, well known for producing famous journalists. She also graduated with honors from the Portfolio Center, Atlanta, Georgia. The Portfolio Center has a two year program which is treated like a Masters program in advertising, enabling writers to build a writing portfolio.
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Barbara McLaughlin,The Fund for Park Avenue
Barbara was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and grew up mostly in Edina, a suburb of Minneapolis. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in History from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.
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Satya Scainetti, Business Owner
Satya grew up in Long Island, New York. She has an Associates Degree in Early Childhood Education and a Bachelors of Science Degree in Social work from Adelphi University, Garden City, New York.
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Dottie Kulasa, Cruise Director
Dottie has an assistant cruise director and 30+ people reporting to her. She says “The Cruise Director on the Marina is responsible for all the entertainment onboard, scheduling performers and performances, planning daily activities which need to meet a wide variety of interests and planning the dance band sets for every night (big band, 50s, etc.) for the cruise.” During the day, she is the hostess for the trivia quizzes and at night she also acts as MC for the entertainment acts. Her cruise schedule varies but she usually works 3 or 4 months and then will have 1 or 2 months off.
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Karen Kloop, Website Founder
Karen grew up in the Philadelphia area and completed two years of college before getting into film making to produce television commercials, political campaigns and documentaries.
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Emily Corpuz , Pilates Instructor
Emily grew up in Wilmington, Delaware and Boston, MA. She has a BA Degree in Fine Arts from Brandeis University and a Masters Degree in Education, specializing in Expressive Art*, from Lesley College in Cambridge, MA.
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Gabriella Mele, VP Finance and Administration
Gabliella grew up in Northern Italy, in the Milan metropolitan area, near Lake Como. She has a Law Degree from the Universita’ Cattolica, Milan, Italy. In addition Gabriella completed two separate Certificate Programs at UC Berkeley, one in Marketing and one in Accounting.
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Susan Ingrid Pitcher, Art Gallery Owner
Susan was born in Reading, England and immigrated to the United States when she was 2. She said she moved around while growing up and lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio.
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Cathy Fiorello, Author
Cathy grew up in Brooklyn, New York and has a BA from Hunter College, New York, in English Writing with a minor in French. She has taken post graduate writing workshops at Cornell, Vassar, NYU and the University of Wisconsin.
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Laurie Carson, Lung Cancer Research Association
Laurie grew up in South Hampton, Long Island and has a BS degree from Colby- Sawyer College, in New London, NH and a degree of Advanced Study in Medical Technology from the Princeton Medical Center in Princeton, NJ.
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