ST. JOSEPH HILL ACADEMY
HIGH SCHOOL
Career Conversations: Hill Alumnae Panel Series
February 10, 2025
Careers in Beauty: Hair and Cosmetics IndustryChemistry, Business and Sales
March 18, 2025
Careers in Nursing
April 1, 2025
Careers in Advertising and Marketing
May 6, 2025
Careers in Event Planning and Hospitality
CAREERS IN BEAUTY
Hair and Cosmetics IndustryChemistry, Business and Sales
Session One: February 10, 2025
Gabrielle
Barone ’15
Manufacturing Development Engineer, PhytogenX, Inc.
RaeAnne
Kascle ’16
Retail Media Manager, Revlon
Eileen Sullivan ’15 Assistant Marketing Manager, L’Oreal USA
Allison Lauria
Matthews ’06
VP Marketing and Communications, Hayden Products
Gianna (Mingino)
Zannetti ’09 Director of Launch and Insourcing, Manufacturing Supply Chain, L’Oreal USA
CAREERSINBEAUTY
Hair & Cosmetics Industry- Chemistry, Business and Sales
SESSION 1 Monday, February 10, 2025
GABRIELLE BARONE ’15
Manufacturing Development Engineer, PhytogenX, Inc.
Gabrielle has a background in chemical engineering and currently works as a contract manufacturer specializing in cosmetic products. As a Manufacturing Development Engineer, she focuses on optimizing and managing the manufacturing processes for skin care, hair care, and body care. Gabrielle plays a key role in scaling formulations from small lab batches to large-scale production, addressing the unique challenges that come with this transition. A significant portion of her work involves troubleshooting scale up issues and implementing risk mitigation strategies to ensure quality outcomes. Gabrielle graduated from the University of Delaware with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering.
RAEANNE KASCLE ’16
Retail Media Manager, Revlon
RaeAnne Kascle is a Retail Media Manager at Revlon where she is responsible for translating business strategies into media campaigns that grow brand sales across key retailers, such as Amazon, Ulta, Target, Macy's, & Walmart. Prior to Revlon, she worked at Coty as a Marketing Coordinator & Assistant Brand Manager assisting in skincare, color cosmetics, and fragrance product launches for brands such as philosophy, Gucci Beauty, Burberry Fragrances, and CoverGirl. RaeAnne graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a B.S. in Journalism and minor in marketing in 2020.
CAREERSINBEAUTY
Hair & Cosmetics Industry- Chemistry, Business and
Sales
SESSION 1 Monday, February 10, 2025
ALLISON LAURIA MATTHEWS ’06
VP Marketing and Communications, Hayden Products
Allison Lauria Matthews is a beauty industry leader with over a decade of experience leading growth and innovation at L’Oreal USA. Currently, she is spearheading marketing efforts at Hayden Products to reposition Hard Candy makeup. Over the course of her professional career, Allison’s expertise spans from luxury, mass-market, and e-commerce channels to leadership across beauty categories including makeup, skincare, fragrance, haircare. Allison graduated from the Stern School of Business at New York University with a B.S. in International Business and Marketing.
EILEEN SULLIVAN ’15
Assistant Marketing Manager, L’Oreal USA
After graduating from St. Joseph Hill Academy, Eileen attended the Dolan School of Business at Fairfield University where she graduated with a B.S. in Marketing and a minor in Business Analytics. After a few internships during college, she was able to begin her professional career at L’Oreal where she has remained over the last 5 and a half years. Eileen works on the “Level Loyalty” team which is the rewards program for L’Oreal’s professional haircare brands including Redken, Pureology, Matrix, Biolage, L’Oreal professionnel, Kerastase, Shu Uemura and Mizani. She helps manage the website and leads the Site Merchandising for the team.
CAREERSINBEAUTY
Hair & Cosmetics Industry- Chemistry, Business and Sales
SESSION 1 Monday, February 10, 2025
GIANNA (MINGINO) ZANNETTI ’09
Director of Launch and Insourcing, Manufacturing Supply Chain, L’Oreal USA
Gianna (Mingino) Zannetti is currently the Director of Launch and Insourcing at the Franklin Manufacturing plant for L’Oreal USA. Gianna attended Manhattan College where she obtained a B.S. in Chemical Engineering with minors in Mathematics and Chemistry. Gianna was a campus tour guide and orientation leader, held leadership positions in AIChE and SWE clubs, performed in musicals with the college’s theater group, and held a summer and part-time internship in technical packaging with Victoria’s Secret Beauty. Gianna was recruited by L’Oreal USA in her senior year.
Gianna started her professional career at L’Oreal Franklin Manufacturing plant in the Management Development Program where she held positions of Production Planner, Project Engineer, and Launch Coordinator. Once graduated from the program, she became a launch manager – a project manager for the manufacturing site for new products for L’Oreal Paris and Garnier skincare brands. She then spent four years in Product Development for Maybelline. Her biggest career accomplishment to date is the Sky High Mascara which went viral on Tik Tok at launch. She has spent the last three years leading the launch team back at the manufacturing plant, overseeing
CAREERSINBEAUTY
Hair & Cosmetics Industry- Chemistry, Business and Sales
SESSION 1 Monday, February 10, 2025
project managers for new product launches of all brands including CeraVe and La Roche Posay. She added insourcing (changing the manufacturing location of a product) to her scope 18 months ago, which has taught her a lot about the financial aspects of manufacturing. She has also recently received her Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification.
Gianna lives in Hoboken, NJ with her husband Andrew. She maintains a close circle of 10 friends from her days at Hill.
CAREERS IN NURSING
Session Two: March 18 2025
Margaret
Azzarelli, R
MSN, CPNP
Advanced Prac in Pediatrics, C University Dep
Pediatric
Allergy/Immun
Molly (Wilt
Gioeli, RN, BSN, MSN, ’12
Perioperative Nurse, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Katie (Dowd)
Alexa Loverdi, RN, BSN, MSN ’14
Registered Nurse, Staten Island University Hospital | Northwell Health
Guastavino, RN, BSN, ’10
Clinical Liaison Nurse
Supervisor, Richmond University Medical Center Emergency Department
anieri)
Scala, RN, BSN, ’11
Registered Nurse, Staten Island University Hospital | Northwell Health
Andrea Sciortino, RN, BSN, ’13
Registered Nurse, CCRM NY Fertility Center
CAREERSINNURSING
SESSION 2 Tuesday, March 18, 2025
MARGARET AZZARELLI , RN , BSN, MSN, CPNP-PC, ’11
Advanced Practice Nurse in Pediatrics, Columbia University Department of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology
Margaret attended New York University (NYU) College of Nursing and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2014. While in nursing school she worked as a medical assistant in a local pediatric office. Once she passed her NCLEX she proceeded to work for NYU Langone at NYU Orthopedic Hospital in Pediatrics. In 2019, she graduated from NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing in Advanced Practice Nursing with a specialty in Pediatrics. Today she works for Columbia University in the Department of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner.
MOLLY (WILTON) GIOELI, RN , BSN, MSN, ’12
Perioperative Nurse, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Molly is a registered nurse with 8 years of diverse experience in the healthcare field. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Scranton in 2016, Molly began her career in a medical-surgical unit, where she worked for 3 years. Seeking new challenges, she transferred to a pediatric unit in June 2020, working on the night shift for 2 years. Currently, Molly is working in the Ambulatory Surgery Unit, specializing in the Prep/Recovery area for the past 3 years.
CAREERSINNURSING
SESSION
2 Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Committed to advancing her education, she completed a Master Degree in Nursing Education from Wagner College in 2024.
Molly graduated from Hill in 2012. While at Hill, she was involved in cheerleading and many clubs, including the Kairos program, which she is still dedicated to as an Adult Leader.
KATIE (DOWD) GUASTAVINO, RN , BSN, ’10
Clinical Liaison Nurse Supervisor, Richmond University Medical Center Emergency Department
Katie attended the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany where she received a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology with a minor in History and Education in 2014. She went on to attend the Decker School of Nursing at Binghamton University for a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) in 2015.
After graduation from Nursing School, Katie started her practice at St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse, NY. She worked as a staff nurse on a cardiac medical-surgical floor. In 2016, she moved back to NYC and started working at The Mount Sinai Hospital serving on the cardiothoracic/vascular step-down and then the surgical/ transplant ICU.
Eventually Katie found her current home at Richmond University Medical Center in the Emergency Department.
CAREERSINNURSING
SESSION 2 Tuesday, March 18, 2025
She started as a staff nurse and is now currently the Clinical Liaison Nurse Supervisor on the night shift.
Katie’s role includes supervising staff overnight, helping plan staffing and management of bed flow in the ER. She assists staff in problem solving and helps communicate through any issues that may arise.
Overnight she helps in all critical situations, and then organizes quality and debriefings. Katie helps educate and identify nursing education needs. She works closely with hospital administration, department heads and physician staff in order to better coordinate all aspects of patient care. Katie loves emergency nursing, and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment. The resilient teamwork in the ER is hard to put into words however she feels passionate about her team and truly believes the ER staff is a family.
Katie found out she was pregnant with her first child in March 2020 during the start of Covid-19 pandemic. She continued to work her entire pregnancy during the hardest hit months in NYC up until his birth in October 2020.
Between 2017-2020 she helped coach the Hill Track and Field team, and she enjoyed watching the team flourish. Katie competed as a Division I athlete at SUNY Albany on the Track and Field team. She still enjoys fitness and most days you can find her going for a run.
Katie loves living in Staten Island with her husband Phil, and her two overwhelming beautiful children. Their names are Philip (4) and Claire (2).
CAREERSINNURSING
SESSION 2
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
ALEXA LOVERDI, RN , BSN, MSN ’14
Registered Nurse, Staten Island University Hospital | Northwell Health
Alexa is a 29-year-old healthcare professional who earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from Sacred Heart University. For nearly seven years, she has served as a Registered Nurse at Staten Island University Hospital, where she has fostered meaningful connections both personally and professionally.
In December 2024, Alexa completed her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) with a specialization in Family Nurse Practitioner from Wagner College. Her lifelong passion for helping others made pursuing this advanced degree a natural progression in her healthcare journey.
Beyond her bedside nursing role, Alexa has worked as a clinical instructor at St. Paul's Nursing School, where she fulfilled her passion for mentoring the next generation of healthcare professionals.
When not dedicated to her professional endeavors, Alexa enjoys quality time with family and friends, traveling to new destinations, and maintaining a healthy work-life balance in today's fast-paced world.
CAREERSINNURSING
SESSION 2 Tuesday, March 18, 2025
DIANA (RANIERI) SCALA, RN , BSN, ’11
Registered Nurse, Staten Island University Hospital | Northwell Health
Diana (Ranieri) Scala pursued nursing prerequisites at Mount Saint Mary College in 2015 before earning her Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from Chamberlain University in 2018. Diana is now a registered nurse currently working as a frontline staff surgical nurse at Staten Island University Hospital. Her nursing career began in pediatrics at Children Medical Group (CMG) of Atlanta. Diana soon went on to become the Assistant Nurse Manager of CMG. She gravitated back to her Staten Island roots and began working at SIUH in 2021.
It has been her honor to be an integrative part of healing and caring for the Staten Island community.
Diana represents her nursing unit as Chair for SIUH’s Collaborative Care Council. She is certified in Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, and Neonatal Resuscitation Program. Diana is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
In 2024, Diana received a Northwell Health Truly Award for being “truly inclusive” in preceptorship and as her unit’s charge nurse. Diana is working to pursue her degree to become a Family Nurse Practitioner as well as obtaining certificates in medical-surgical nursing and functional medicine.
CAREERSINNURSING
SESSION 2 Tuesday, March 18, 2025
ANDREA SCIORTINO, RN , BSN, ’13
Registered Nurse, CCRM NY Fertility Center
Andrea obtained a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from St. Francis College in 2018. Her first position as a Registered Nurse was on a Medical-Surgical Telemetry unit at NYU Langone Brooklyn where she stayed for three years. About one year into her nursing career, she worked as a first responder during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. She then moved to outpatient setting nursing jobs.
Currently Andrea works as a PACU/OR Nurse at CCRM NY Fertility Center, helping patients on fertility journeys to start families. She switches between roles of assisting in the OR and recovering patients post procedure.
Andrea also works in a per diem position as a School Nurse. She covers as the in-school nurse of the day, seeing students that walk in needing medical assistance as well as administering prescribed medications to students.
Andrea believes that attending Hill has shaped her into the person she is today. She has made lifelong friendships with an amazing group of Hill girls, who she still speaks to everyday after graduating over 11 years ago.