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Lisa Kelly
Founder & CEO
A true pioneer in the industry, Lisa has been beading and teaching for more than 20 years. She was voted one of the nation's Top Ten Instructors by Bead & Button Magazine in 2010. That's like getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Except beads. And you don't have to put your hands in cement.
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Paul Kelly
Vice President, Director of IT
Dubbed "The Website Wonder" Paul is responsible for making all things "computer" run smoothly. The "King of Code" also enjoys playing music with his band, sailing and seed beads. (Okay, no seed beads, but that man can PLAY the guitar!) |
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Claudia Navarrete
General Manager
As General Manager of our crazy business, Claudia does it all!
When she is not checking in with each Department making sure everything is running smoothly, she is dancing. In fact, she is the best dancer who never tried out for 'So You Think You Can Dance.' We are glad because it means she won't become famous and leave us for Hollywood. How would Beaducation exist without her?
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Aisha Formanski
Education Team
Aisha is a classy lady and she sure knows where it’s at when it comes to classes. As well as an accomplished jewelry designer, she can also spin, knit and churn butter. Okay, the churning is a stretch but wouldn’t it be cool to make butter anytime you wanted it? |
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Lora Curran
Customer Service
Lora heads up our customer service team. When you hear Lora’s helpful and sunny voice on the phone you would never know that she is a tough hockey player. We only know that because just last week she mistook a rubber block for a puck and made a goal by shooting it neatly through the door to the shipping department. Her favorite thing is to hear from our customers, so please drop her a line anytime. Her office is big and she gets kinda lonely. |
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Mel McCabe
Product Manager
Mel has the uncanny ability to spot exciting new products for our site. Unearthing treasures is in her blood. It’s because her great-great-great-great-great grandmother owned the first thrift store ever. That was a long time ago, when things weren’t so antique. Not only is she a collector of interesting items, but she also knows her beads and makes beautiful jewelry. Her ggggggreat-grandmother would be proud. |
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Mindy Prabhu
Website & Graphic Designer
This girl has an eye for design that we trust. She picked out all the wall colors for our new space and painted larger than life stamps on the interior windows!
She takes a break from her life of interior design to tend to our site; taking all our photos, creating our ads and updating anything and everything you see at Beaducation. Did we mention she does all this with kids? Crazy, I know.
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Danelle Street
Inventory Lead
Danelle loves all shiny pretty things especially sterling silver and gems mixed in with a heavy dose of design stamps and hammering.
Torn between a variety of creative pursuits, she just can't decide between making jewelry, refinishing furniture, embellishing anything she can get her hands on, or making a big, yummy pot of soup.
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Yasmin Perez
Inventory Team
Known at Beaducation as ‘Yaz,’ ‘The Yazzer,’ ‘ Yaz-ma-taz’ ‘Yazmimi,’ and ‘The Countess,’ Yasmin came to Beaducation as a Master Sterling Jellyfish Fabricator. It is no secret that most of the staff here hankers for the beautiful blooming blossoms that often hang from her ears. When Yaz-ma-taz is not furiously opening shipments and getting product counted and into the warehouse, she is busy at home preparing for one of her many craft shows and spoiling her adorable dog Pancho. |
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Jenn Wilson
Shipping Lead
Jenn rules the Beaducation warehouse. You want to know why your package gets to you so quickly? It's because she makes sure it does! Our Shipping Department is so lean and mean because Jenn's vegan lifestyle has it runnin' like an organic machine! When she's not sketching at home or recreating black and white photos, she is baking up some vegan cinnamon rolls or healthy s'mores cupcakes (they are mad crazy tasty!). Jenn's an avid runner and in such great shape that if the postman doesn't pick up our packages one day, she might even be able to run your stamps to your home faster than USPS! |
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Jennifer Parzych
Shipping Team
This Georgia Peach is one crafty southern belle. Not only can she fabricate metal, cast and set stones, but she managed to ship out 136 packages in her first day in Shipping. She chews on ginko leaves throughout the day to keep her mind as sharp as a Samurai sword, which is why shipping errors are so rare in our warehouse. She can usually be found in a pair of hip Adidas runners, ready to run after the postman if he has left without a package. Don’t mess with JP! |
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Nancy Pudlo
Social Media Specialist
We owe our blog identity and tweetasticness to our Social Media Specialist Nancy. When she is not spreading the Beaducation word out in cyberspace, she can be found gettin’ her craft-on. She makes the most charming lil’ magnets and is a mad woman with the glue gun, not to mention the female Gregory Hines of tap dancing. Basically, we are lucky to have such a talent as part of our team (and did we mention she happens to be Lisa Kelly’s sister too?). |
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Colin Mahler
Trade Show Team
Colin jet-sets all over the country, as a part of the Beaducation trade show team. She teaches over a dozen chainmail classes for Beaducation and is a favorite instructor among our customers. Did we mention she makes nearly all the jump rings for our site too? Pretty crafty, eh?
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Rocco
Dog
Rocco is kinda like that kid from school that would hang out by the wall at the basketball court during second period. Except he is a dog and does not listen to The Grateful Dead. |
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