Danitza Casallas, Afterschool Program Director (Parc Derian) – For the past 15 years, Ms. Casallas has worked as a designer. She was also a professor in Arts, Architecture, Photography, and Lighting at Pilot University of Colombia for eight years, and an Industrial Design professor at Bosque University for two years. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from Andes University in Bogota, Colombia, and a Master’s degree in Industrial Design from Istituto Europeo di Design, Milano, Italy. She is certified as an Interior Designer from the New York Institute of Art and Design, and as a UX Designer from Google. In her free time she enjoys acrylic painting, crafts, dancing, baking, photography, swimming, video games, origami, drafting, watching movies, and reading. She is a mother and a wife and says she “knows how important it is to have a nice atmosphere in the place you call home.”
