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Tuesday, September 22nd - Ellie Chamberland, Director, Marketing Strategy, The Howard Hughes Corporation
Ellie Chamberland, a Utah native, has been in NY for nine years where she currently works as the Director of Marketing Strategy for the Seaport District at The Howard Hughes Corporation (HHC). HHC owns, manages and develops commercial, residential and mixed-use real estate across the country, with the purpose of helping people discover new ways of experiencing life. In the Seaport District, HHC is leveraging the Seaport District's history as the birthplace of innovation, as it transforms a district spanning several city blocks, creating approximately 450,000 square feet of dynamic culinary, fashion, entertainment and cultural experiences. One highlight is Pier 17, host to restaurants from acclaimed chefs including Jean-Georges Vongerichten, David Chang, Helene Henderson, and Andrew Carmellini. The Rooftop at Pier 17 is an award-winning concert venue, with performances from Billie Eilish, Diana Ross, Ringo Starr, Trevor Noah, Kings of Leon and many more since its opening in 2018.
As the Director of Marketing Strategy, Ellie works across departments to drive awareness, traffic & revenue to the Seaport District through neighborhood-wide activations, partnerships & campaigns. Her team supports businesses within the Seaport while maintaining the overarching brand values.
Prior to Howard Hughes, Ellie spent six years at Scholastic overseeing marketing for Scholastic Book Clubs. Ellie was passionate about the business, introducing new teachers to Book Clubs which provide access to affordable books for children across the country and helps teachers build affordable classroom libraries.
Ellie lives in Brooklyn with her pugs, Brandy and Monica. She is an avid football fan (go Broncos!) and plays in multiple fantasy leagues (acting as commissioner in one of them). She loves to travel, skydive (with the goal of doing a jump in every state), cook and is using her quarantine time to learn the guitar & Spanish.
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Thursday, September 24th - Criscia Long, Director of Entertainment, Brooklyn Nets
Criscia is a graduate of Long Island School of the Arts where she began preparing for her professional career as a dance major. She then went on to receive her BFA in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University. After obtaining her degree she immediately began to dive into the world of live performance working with amazing companies such as Nike and Disney, as well as artiest such as Lil' Kim, Madonna, and Pharrell. She was also a Vegas finalist for So You Think You Can Dance, seasons 5 & 6. Criscia has had the pleasure of dancing at the "World's Most Famous Arena" as Captain of the Knicks City Dancers, where she also coached the Knicks City Kids. Her experience has expanded to television where she performed on shows like “Lip Sync Battle”, “Glee”, and “America’s Got Talent”. She was also featured as lead dancer in the movie “Train Wreck”. Criscia also has a passion for fitness, in which she has personal worked with Insanity’s Shaun T, and you can catch her in his new dance cardio video “CIZE”. Outside of dancing and fitness, Criscia is the Director of Entertainment for the Brooklyn Nets where she oversees the Brooklynettes Dance Team, Team Hype, and the Nets Kids Dance Team.
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