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Kravet, Inc., a fabric and furnishings supplier turns to ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ when scouting for hires and interns.

What if your best friend from ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ became your business partner? What if your favorite ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ professor connected you to a job in your dream industry or helped you recruit fellow alumni to your company?

For a growing number of ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ alumni, these are far from mere fantasies. They are encapsulations of how the network they created as students has fueled them as professionals—and how it continues to nurture today’s students.Ìý

Dale Flashner

Dale Flashner

When it comes to scouting for hires and interns, Jennifer (Hickey) Scarpella ’04, a graphic designer at 95- year-old —a fabric and furnishings supplier in Bethpage, New York—turns to her alma mater. “The work we see coming from the ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ applicants is the most impressive,” she says. “Whenever we need to fill a permanent designer position or intern, Dale FlashnerÌý[ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æâ€™s director of the graphic design studio in the ]Ìýis the person I touch base with first.”

Of four full-time graphic designers, three are ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ graduates, including Scarpella, Andrea Munera ’08 and Kelly Frezza ’13. Both Ms. Munera and Ms. Frezza were introduced to Kravet through Ms. Flashner.

Rounding out the ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ network at Kravet is Sarah Heinemann ’12, a former art and art history major, who works in the archival department, and Ivan Santos ’10, a former , who works on the company’s technology and is the in-house photographer.

Jennifer (Hickey) Scarpella '04

Jennifer (Hickey) Scarpella ’04

Andrea Munera ’08

Andrea Munera ’08

Ivan Santos ’10

Ivan Santos ’10

Sarah Heinemann ’12

Sarah Heinemann ’12

Kelly Frezza ’13

Kelly Frezza ’13

This piece appeared in theÌýÌýSpring 2014 edition.

For further information, please contact:

Todd Wilson
Strategic Communications DirectorÌý
p – 516.237.8634
e – twilson@adelphi.edu

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