Spotlights

2020 Women in Real Estate: Teresa Zingales, Senior Property Manager at Peabody Properties, Inc.

What aspects of working from home have you enjoyed most? While working from home, I have enjoyed being able to spend more time with my family and less time in traffic.

2020 Women in Real Estate: Alicia Bernardo, Project Architect a Gienapp Architects

Who inspired you to join the CRE Industry? My high school AutoCAD instructor. In my freshman year of high school, I was misplaced into an AutoCAD class. I remember looking around and realizing I was the only girl –

2020 Women in Real Estate: Hilary Troia, President at Office Gallery International

What aspects of working from home have you enjoyed most? Because of the spaciousness of our showroom, we were able to come back relatively quickly and begin using that space again with a few modifications.

2020 Women in Real Estate: Karen Pollard, CEcD, MBA, Economic Development Director at the Town of New Milford, CT

Who inspired you to join the CRE Industry? International Paper – They announced a plant closure in the town I lived in and I volunteered to help asses and transfer real estate from IP to the town.

2020 Women in Real Estate: Allison LaGuardia, President at ALL Media

Who inspired you to join the CRE Industry? I was inspired to join this industry to help commercial real estate companies with marketing and media who are looking to work with more women owned companies.

2020 Women in Real Estate: Jane Ballerini, Principal at Neubert, Pepe & Monteith, P.C.

Who inspired you to join the CRE Industry? It was a bit of an accident, initially. When I first started, there were very few women in the industry. It is now comprised of a network of sharp

2020 Women in Real Estate: Michele Fitzpatrick, 1031 Exchange Relationship Manager, VP at Northern Bank

What is your favorite motivational quote and who was it by? Walt Disney. He said, “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” I think we often weigh our options and then start to overthink and overanalyze.

2020 Women in Real Estate: Kate Tooke, Associate Principal at Sasaki

What is the best advice you have received, and who was it from? I adore the children’s book, Miss Rumphius by Barbara Clooney. The grandfather in the story tells the young Alice Rumphius that she “must do something to make

2020 Women in Real Estate: Kathleen Guinee, Principal at Aetna Fire Alarm Service Company, Inc.

Who inspired you to join the CRE industry? I entered the CRE industry in the mid 80’s when I joined my father’s small electrical contracting company which specialized in code-compliant fire alarm installations and inspections in commercial buildings.

2020 Women in Real Estate: Holly St. Clair, Chief Technology Officer at Sasaki

Who inspired you to join the CRE Industry? A community organizer named Gladys Vega from the Chelsea Creek Action Group inspired me to shift from more of an environmental focus to looking at who owns the land and