Technology & Business
Pamela Ptak, Fashion & Advertising
Pamela Ptak is the owner/designer of the ready-to-wear fashion line “Pamela Ptak,” which creates ladies dresses & separates and casual menswear with intriguing and unusual lines, textures & motifs. She also designs custom couture gowns under the label “Ptak Couture™”. Her work & studio were featured on Lifetime TV when she was a fashion designer on Project Runway Season 7 (more details on the press page at www.pamelaptak.com).
Ptak received her bachelor's degree in Art & Design from Pratt Institute and did further studies in fashion design and pattern making at the French-founded Maison Sapho School of Dressmaking & Design and at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City...a total of 8 years of higher education. After graduating from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Art & Design, Pamela Ptak worked as an art director for several of the world’s top ten advertising agencies on Cover Girl cosmetics, Citibank, Diet Coke & more.
She’s a frequent lecturer on design & creativity across the US and owner of the Arts and Fashion Institute™, a fashion study program initiated in 2003 to inspire and advance the skills of fashion design professionals, fashion college grads and fine sewing enthusiasts. as well as instruction in fine arts and comic book arts.
Stephanie Bosits, GIS Application Developer
Stephanie Bosits is a GIS Application Developer for the New Jersey Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (Geographic Information Services). After graduating from the University of New Hampshire with a BA in Geography she worked as GIS Specialist maintaining regional datasets and online mapping applications for the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission. After leaving the commission she worked as a Geospatial Technician facilitating the creation of intelligence datasets through python scripting at BAE Systems. Since joining the NJ Office of GIS in 2017 she has focused on the development of the Open Space and Preservation Resources Inventory (OSPRI) database and related editing applications.
Chris Klaube, GIS Application Developer
Chris is a GIS Application Developer for the New Jersey Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (Geographic Information Services), where he is mainly tasked with building tools for data development, web application development and server administration. His specialties include GIS enterprise management, spatial solutions, web and desktop development, database administration, public safety, planning and systems administration. Before joining NJOGIS, Chris worked as Systems Analyst in support of a regional 9-1-1 authority. As an undergraduate, Chris studied GIS, Environmental Studies, and Natural Resources. Management. Chris received a BS in from Rutgers University and attended graduate studies in GIS & Geography at Penn State University.
Teresa Diaz, Hunterdon County Polytech Career & Technical School
Teresa Alessandria De Sapio Diaz is the owner of TADS – Art & Illustration. She was born and raised in Hunterdon County, NJ, being influenced by her beautiful rural surroundings. She attended Columbus College of Art and Design earning a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration and Visual Communication. She creates artwork for clients using her Italian heritage and her global travels as influences. She specializes in black and white architectural renderings and calligraphy for custom designed wedding invitations. Additionally, she has been the Commercial Arts/Advertising Design and 3D Computer Animation teacher at Hunterdon County Polytech for the past 18 years. Her programs are geared towards preparing the next generation of artists, designers, and animators by teaching students traditional drawing and painting and allowing them to gain experience with today’s computer technology including Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere, Animate, After Effects, Autodesk Maya, ZBrush, and Unity.
Jonathan Chung, Penguin Random House Publishing
Graduating from The College of New Jersey in 2014, not much has changed for me from being 6 years old to being 26. I still enjoy playing and watching sports, The Lion King is still my favorite movie, and pizza is still the best food on the planet. If there is one thing that has changed, it is my idea of what working and being an adult with a job is. Find a way to work with things that you enjoy and growing up won’t be that hard. Luckily for me I found a job where I get to read books and meet celebrities for a living, so I’d say I’m not doing too bad.
Nina Cally, Owner, B1 Yoga Studio
Nina Cally opened B1 Yoga in 2014, bringing a healthful blend of Hatha yoga and Yoga Therapy to the Delaware Valley. Nina, a former marketing director, with a B.S. from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, began studying yoga in the late 1990s. After a career in marketing, then staying home raising three sons, Nina decided to dive deeper into the study of yoga philosophy. She received her 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) in 2009 and began teaching at Body Tech Fitness, Jaya Healing Arts, and Stoneking Physical Therapy in Lambertville. She also taught a free community yoga class weekly in St. John's parish center.
In 2013, Nina began studying with Joseph and Lillian LaPage at Kripalu School of Yoga and Ayurveda in Lenox, MA receiving her 500 hr-RYT and 300-hr Advanced Certification in Therapeutic Yoga. She is currently completing a 1000-hr Yoga Therapy certification with Kripalu under mentor Maria Mendola, founder of Functional Yoga Therapy, Tucson, AZ.
Nina added to her Yoga Therapy practice by studying Reiki with John and Lourdes Gray at the John Harvey Gray Reiki Center for Healing in Jaffrey, NH. She is an experienced Master Reiki Practitioner. She is a Thai Yoga Massage practitioner as well. Nina earned a certification in Yoga4Sobriety and offers a weekly yoga class to support recovery from all types of addiction. (Source: http://www.b1yoga.org/)