Meet The Team – River Valley Guild

MEET THE TEAM

Jess Kravit

Founder + CEO

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Kaitlyn Murray

Community Director

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Nikki has been an artist and a writer from a very young age. She has always been drawn to creative pursuits, experimenting with different mediums until eventually picking up photography in high school. She became infatuated with medium and large format film and the darkroom soon became a second home. She graduated from Purchase College in 2016 with a B.A in Sociology, minoring in Photography and Art History. She still creates fine art photographs, which have been exhibited across the Hudson Valley and in Florence, Italy. She is also a freelance writer, published in <em>The Financial Diet</em>, <em>Collective World</em>, and <em>Rivertown Magazine</em>.

During COVID, Nikki was laid off from her serving job and had more time to create. It was then she started ScigStudio, a business specializing in polymer clay earrings and accessories. ScigStudio makes designs for the fun, bold and sassy. She loves playing with color, dimension and texture to create truly unique art – that you can wear.

After joining River Valley Guild in 2020, Nikki began working more closely with the internal operations. She maintains and updates the website, writes copy + blog entries, and more. She also runs the Community Art Supply - a place where Hudson Valley residents can go for art supplies at no cost. The C.A.S runs on donations from the community. So far, there are two locations: Fishkill Recreation Center and River Valley Arts Center in Wappingers.

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Nikki Visciglia

Editorial Director + Community Art Supply

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Cole is a Special Education Elementary School Teacher turned Certified Financial Paraplanner (FPQP™) who’s passionate about making sure women don’t get left behind when it comes to understanding their money. She helps women build good financial habits, set and meet reachable goals, and feel more empowered around their money.

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Cole Yaverbaum

Finance Director

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Frank is a photographer and filmmaker in the Hudson Valley. While in college studying a trade, he found himself not being creatively fulfilled. At 18, he bought his first camera and fell in love with the idea of storytelling through a single image. He found his niche in artistic portraits and working with small businesses helping them build an online identity with their websites and social media through photography and videography. In 2022 Frank found himself astounded with all the local artists and craftspeople living in the Hudson Valley. Thus, the short film series “Your Local Creatives” was born. Your Local Creatives is a short film Documentary series highlighting all the talented people in the Hudson Valley doing exceptional work. In this intimate series we learn why the people do what they do, how they got started, and their plans for the future. Writing is also a big part of Frank’s creative process. Over the course of his filmmaking journey he realized that he wanted to make more narrative pieces of work. He currently has one completed screenplay, and is working on a multitude of other feature scripts and short films with the goal of eventually having them be shown on the big screen.
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Frank Theodore

Video Editor