Staff

Gabrielle David, Executive Director. Gabrielle David is a multimedia artist with a strong administrative and legal background. Her professional experience includes: desktop publishing, layout, web design and video production; word processing, software training, technical support and systems maintenance; advertising and public relations; administrative and paralegal support; and cultural programming. As Executive Director, Gabrielle utilizes her skills to run the day-to-day operations of the IAAS, usually with one hand attached to a mouse and the other with her cell phone to her ear. gdavid[at]theiaas.org

Angela Sternreich, Program Director. Angela Sternreich brings to the IAAS an extensive business background. She has worked as an Office Manager and Operations Manager at several internationally known companies in New York and Los Angeles. Since Angela likes to direct, plan and organize events, she is the perfect Program Director. She manages all of the IAAS's program initiatives, including coordinating, implementing, delegating, budgeting, and anything else that helps make our programs run efficiently and effectively. It'll all get done, as long as there's a cup of coffee nearby! asternreich[at]theiaas.org

Michelle Aragón, Director, Marketing Communications. Michelle Aragón has been a senior level writer and producer responsible for producing brand-building, award-winning advertising for Fortune 500 companies, having recently added television production to the mix. When she’s not writing copy, developing marketing strategies, and ad campaigns, Michelle, who is also an artist, is redesigning the IAAS's marks (the phati'tude logos are her handiwork) and designing marketing materials. Talk about multitasking! maragon[at]theiaas.org

Naydene Brickus, Information Technology Manager. Naydene Brickus is an IT consultant who designs, manages, configures, analyzes, diagnoses and deploys critical technology projects. Naydene is responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the IAAS's web-based applications and training its staff in new technology. She has lead the team to use social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to promote our organization and program initiatives. Always the fitness fan, she often accomplishes these and other amazing feats while working out at the gym. nbrickus[at]theiaas.org

Nikita Hunter, Director of Curriculum and Instruction. A formerly trained artist from Detroit, Michigan, Nikita Hunter is an Art teacher for the Department of Education, with a specialty in Children of Special Needs and Early Childhood. Her passion lies in creating successful language-arts curricula that utilizes the IAAS's program initiatives; and her goal is to get students to actively think and discover firsthand, through the arts, about the world we live in. nhunter[at]theiaas.org

Curator and Art Director. Lorraine Miller Nuzzo has been involved with phati'tude since its inception. She oversees art direction for phati'tude Literary Magazine and is responsible for selecting visual artists and their works that are displayed on phati'tude Literary TV Show's set. With a pen on the other side of her brush, Lorraine is also a business woman (Lorraine owns a successful online business) committed to bringing the arts to our communities. lnuzzo[at]theiaas.org