{"id":14545,"date":"2017-01-25T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/?p=14545"},"modified":"2019-02-23T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T19:06:44","slug":"instructor-spotlight-donna-berger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/2017\/01\/25\/instructor-spotlight-donna-berger\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructor Spotlight: Donna Berger"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Donna Tartaglione Berger began her career in fashion as a fashion designer and illustrator after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her experience in the industry spans fashion design, graphic design, illustration, and CAD implementation. Her design experience includes companies such as: Emanuel Ungaro, Jones NY, Marc Andrew, Larry Levine, S.Rothschild, Members Only, and Donna Karan. After many years of designing in the fashion industry, Donna started her own business and is a successful entrepreneur with an athleisure brand concentrated on today\u2019s trends, fashion forecasting,\u00a0and branding in the world of social presence.<\/p>\n

As a designer, educator, and entrepreneur with over 25 years of fashion industry experience, Donna has a proven track record in connecting fashion, creativity, technology and student success as her passion continues to ‘give back\u2019 to her students.\u00a0Her knowledge and years of experience help students thrive in an environment that is unique and challenging.<\/p>\n

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She currently teaches part-time at The Fashion Institute of Technology and at Parsons The New School of Design.<\/p>\n

Donna also volunteers as an artist\/photographer for children’s organizations including the\u00a0Make A Wish<\/em>\u00a0foundation and\u00a0Operation Warm<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Website:\u00a0 http:\/\/donnatberger.wixsite.com\/donnatberger<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Donna Berger teaches the following FIT Precollege Classes<\/em>:
\n<\/strong>JSX050: The Fashion Cycle<\/a>
\nJSX060: Red Carpet Fashion<\/a>
\nJSX 019: Fashion History: Trends Through the Decades<\/a><\/p>\n

On Precollege Programs:
\n<\/strong><\/em>FIT\u2019s Precollege Program is a wonderful opportunity to teach and introduce students interested in fashion within a college setting.\u00a0 They get a good feeling from the workshops, campus, people, and all the creativity surrounding them.\u00a0 I wish these programs were available when I was in middle\/high school.\u00a0 We always have a wonderful time together and I love seeing the smiles, and self-confidence on their faces as we create the projects!<\/p>\n

Teaching Philosophy:
\n<\/strong><\/em>I love to work with driven students in a creative, inspiring environment and help them learn \"\"<\/a>the skills they need to move forward. My students are engaged in personal hands-on projects as they are able to choose a topic of interest and apply the skills we are learning along the way. I find that when students get to research their own interest, it is a true passion-based learning experience. It\u2019s amazing to see how they grow through the workshops; artistically and socially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donna Tartaglione Berger began her career in fashion as a fashion designer and illustrator after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her experience in the industry spans fashion design, graphic design, illustration, and CAD implementation. Her design experience includes companies such as: Emanuel Ungaro, Jones NY, Marc Andrew, Larry Levine, S.Rothschild, Members Only, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsevents"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9WbqN-3MB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/precollegeprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}