Women's History Month

Alumni Panel & Mixer

EVENT DETAILS

March 8, 6–8 pm

Dubinsky Student Center, Eighth Floor Dining Room

227 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001

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The FIT Foundation is partnering with FIT's Campus Anti-Violence Education Group in honor of Women's History Month to showcase a panel of successful alumni who will share their experiences of overcoming adversity as women in their fields. The alumni panelists for the event are Denisse Angulo, User Experience Strategist of Anomaly, Elke Knechtl, Group Director for Store Design of Chanel, as well as Tennille Kopiasz, Global Chief Marketing Officer of LVMH Beauty / Fresh. The event will include Q&A from the audience and will be followed by a networking mixer for students and alumni.

Moderator

Jocelin Engel, EEO and Title IX training associate, chair of the FIT Campus Anti-Violence Education Group, and FIT Diversity Collective member

Jocelin Engel is a proud alumna of FIT, with an MPS in Global Fashion Management, a BS in International Trade & Marketing, and a BFA in Fashion Design. Engel returned to work at FIT after some time in the luxury goods industry, and finds the diverse, creative community on campus to be endlessly inspiring. Engel's work at FIT focuses on creating an inclusive and welcoming environment through a variety of programming, trainings, and informational workshops. She is the Chair of the Campus Anti-Violence Education Group (CAEG), whose work centers on empowerment, building awareness and educating the FIT campus community on issues that involve sexual and interpersonal violence prevention. CAEG serves as a resource network committed to educational outreach and programming, consultation, and support. Engel is a certified Safe Zone trainer who regularly facilitates LGBTQ+ awareness and allyship workshops for both FIT and other local colleges and universities. She is also a representative for the President's Diversity Collective, which concentrates on campus DEI initiatives and goals. 

Panelists

Denisse Angulo, user experience strategist at Anomaly

Prior to joining Anomaly as a User Experience Strategist, Denisse Angulo studied advertising and digital design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. There she learned the importance of using storytelling and engagement to shape culture, rather than reflect it. Angulo has experience in kinetic typography, user experience design, typography for digital content design, and digital product design.

At Anomaly, Angulo helps businesses develop strategies that simultaneously deepen customer relationships and drive business value. Through the close auditing of a business ecosystem, she works to design a more seamless and standardized user experience flow. She also uses interactive prototypes to conduct in-depth mapping of the current user experience and journey, in order to identify potential pain points and optimization opportunities.

Angulo is also a member of the Women Who Create mentorship program, a graduate of the MAIP fellowship, and loves to knit!

Elke Knechtl, group director, store design, at Chanel

Elke Knechtl is an accomplished director of store design and construction with over fifteen years of experience in design, architecture, planning, partnerships, and construction at companies such as Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Ralph Lauren. She has an industry connoisseur's sensibility for luxury retail design, specifically for high-end jewelry and watches, collaborating extensively with brand teams, architects, general contractors, consultants, and retail partners globally. 

Tennille Kopiasz, global chief marketing officer at LVMH Beauty/Fresh and member of the FIT Alumni Advisory Council

Tennille Kopiasz is a beauty marketing executive with experience across prestige, designer and mass brands, having held positions in both global developmental and US executional operational roles, with expertise across multiple product categories including cosmetics, fragrance, skincare and hair. In 2018, Kopiasz joined Fresh as the Global Chief Marketing Officer, where she is in charge of developing the global brand vision and long-term roadmap, accelerating across brand, distribution and consumer levers including brand equity, creative/content, channel strategy, digital acceleration, consumer engagement, core product focus, sustainability, systems/processes, culture/organization, with people at the heart.

Kopiasz is a graduate of FIT’s Master of Professional Studies and Bachelor of Science degree program in Cosmetic and Fragrance Marketing and Management. She was awarded the 2013 inaugural FIT MPS Alumni Award for Professional Excellence and the 2014 FIT CFM 25th Anniversary Outstanding Alumni Award. She currently sits on the advisory board of the FIT CFMM Master’s degree program as the LVMH corporate representative as the first alumni to take on this role, as well as the FIT CFM Bachelor’s degree board and the FIDM Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising board. She is an adjunct Professor at FIT co-teaching Advanced Topics in Leadership and is actively involved in their mentor program as she strongly supports developing the next generation of beauty talent and female leadership.

Thank you to our campus partner!