{"id":7869,"date":"2022-09-17T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T10:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/?post_type=post_speaker&#038;p=7869"},"modified":"2022-10-07T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T21:37:25","slug":"diana-bernal","status":"publish","type":"post_speaker","link":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2022\/speaker\/diana-bernal\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Bernal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Topic to Cover<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><strong>&#8220;AMERICA&#8217;S UNTOLD STORY OF IMMIGRANT SUCCESS&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Diana was born in Bogota, Colombia, grew up in New Jersey and is a Business Management graduate of William Paterson University.&nbsp; She has 25+ years experience working with major luxury retail fashion apparel and accessory brands including Calvin Klein, Manolo Blahnik, Van Cleef &amp; Arpels and Louis Vuitton.&nbsp; Her main focuses are Construction, Leasing, Store Development, Property Management, Operations, and Visual Merchandising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of her professional accomplishments include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>completion of a 10,000 square foot, 5-level Landmark building from design to construction of corporate offices, showroom and (2) flagship boutiques in NYC Landmark area<\/li><li>Managed and structured valuation, sale and closing of $2.5M millwork company<\/li><li>Property management and involvement in $700M sale of the St. Regis retail real estate on 5th Avenue, NYC<\/li><li>2016 Corporate Achievement Voyage Award Honoree \u2013 National Hispanic Business Group<\/li><li>2021 \u2013 started own project retail and workplace managing consulting LLC, D2B Consulting<\/li><li>Industry conference speaker and guest panelist &#8211; Fordham Fashion Law Institute, GlobalShop<\/li><li>Retail Design Institute, New York chapter \u2013 former board member &amp; international design competition chair<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>On a personal level, Diana enjoys volunteering.&nbsp; It\u2019s not only an opportunity to give back to the community, but, also helps her to stay connected with her Catholic faith and continued self improvement goals.&nbsp;&nbsp; The (2) organizations where she currently volunteers are the Xavier Mission food pantry &amp; welcome table and Read Ahead elementary student reading mentor program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More About the Speaker<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/diana-m-bernal-48a9439\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/diana-m-bernal-48a9439<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic to Cover &#8220;AMERICA&#8217;S UNTOLD STORY OF IMMIGRANT SUCCESS&#8221; Biography Diana was born in Bogota, Colombia, grew up in New Jersey and is a Business Management graduate of William Paterson University.&nbsp; She has 25+ years experience working with major luxury retail fashion apparel and accessory brands including Calvin Klein, Manolo Blahnik, Van Cleef &amp; Arpels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-7869","post_speaker","type-post_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_speaker\/7869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post_speaker"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_speaker\/7869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8193,"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_speaker\/7869\/revisions\/8193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrantintegration.org\/archived\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}