Alison is an educator, entrepreneur and autism expert with over 19 years of experience in the field of special education.Â
Executive Director/Co-founder
Molly is a mother of an Autistic child and is driven to apply her parenting and professional experience to create and develop employment solutions for her daughter and the extended autism community.Â
Executive Director/Co-founder
Lisa is an autistic person, mother of disabled children, advocate, and a current Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities trainee at the UC Davis MIND Institute. Lisa holds a Florida CPA license and an Illinois CPA certificate. She earned her Master of Accounting Degree from Florida Atlantic University and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Her professional experience includes working with non-profit organizations, privately held companies, and publicly traded multinationals.
Director of Finance
Dana is a mother of teen twins, one with ASD. She wants to use her knowledge to guide other parents through the process of applying for services to benefit their child.
Parent and Community Liaison
Amanda is a former Vice President at Morgan Stanley and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the pastry arts program at ICC. She left the world of finance after 11 years to pursue her passions for baking and social impact. She is excited to combine her skills to both support Invictus’ growth and teach classes and work with the amazing bakers.
Director of Strategic Development
Irene, our Head Pastry Chef, has worked as a baker, pastry chef, cake decorator, line cook and prep cook in restaurants, bakeries, community kitchens and coffee shops both in Montreal and across New York City for the past ten years. Irene has published recipes and articles in various food publications including Eater, VegNews, Edible Queens, and Kitchen Table Magazine. She is also a recipe developer, having created original recipes for cakes, cookies, brownies and more to be baked and sold by our talented team of bakers. Irene runs the Saturday Cake School class where bakers learn the ins and outs of mixing and baking cakes and mastering the fine art of cake decorating. Irene is a certified food handler by the New York State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.Â
Carmine runs Invictus’ Bakery Lab class, where Bakers learn the fundamentals of baking and apply them by using what they’ve learned to build toward increasingly complex recipes. Carmine is a NYS Certified School Counselor who has worked extensively with neurodiverse populations of students. His passion for food and culture sparked his independent study of the culinary arts and has led him to cook professionally and to teach cooking classes. The Bakery Lab is filled with joy. What better way to learn?Â
Dara is a chef, educator, recipe developer and culinary consultant in New York City. After graduating with a business degree from The George Washington University she found that her calling was in the kitchen. Her culinary career started 20 years ago at Gramercy Tavern. Since then she has worked in some of New York’s most well known restaurants, consulted in
major restaurant openings and educated elementary school students in the art of cooking.
Thanks to a generous donation from Microsoft, our workspace is outfitted with the latest technology. Our touch screen enabled laptops allow Bakers of all profiles to follow our process and create our high-quality goods. Microsoft Technology is the bridge that allows us to enable productivity in our overlooked and untapped workforce.
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