Nerissa holds a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts degree for Communications Design from Carnegie Mellon University. With this degree, she spent over a decade in Marketing as a Graphic Designer for St. John’s University, creating innovative and thoughtful designs for their fundraising campaigns at the Waldorf Astoria and Madison Square Garden, athletics department and advertising, both throughout NYC and on digital platforms. She also supervised over various photoshoots for both in-house and external useage, incuding a feature in SEVENTEEN magazine. In 2018 she decided to pursue a different avenue of design and obtained an Interior Design degree from Parson’s at THE NEW SCHOOL.

Today, she serves as Creative Director at an American division of a global holographic foil company. She is passionate about details and loves creating experiences of any kind. She loves food, traveling and spending time with her kids.