Orientation Leaders
Orientation Leaders (OLs) are current FIT students who are there to help you get settled here at FIT. Your Orientation Leader can assist you with everything from finding your virtual meeting room link to learning about joining FIT clubs and organizations. If you have any questions during New Student Orientation, Orientation Leaders are your go-to resource.
Fall 2026 Orientation Leaders (OLs)
Major: Textile Development and Marketing
Fun Fact: Addison has 2 poodles!
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Adetutu did ballet for many years!
Major: Fashion Business Management
Fun Fact: A huge hobby of Aislynn's is visiting aquariums!!! Their favorite exhibits are jellyfish, manta rays, and large fish.
Major: Fashion Business Management
Fun Fact: Akshadha has played in Pre-Nationals as a 10m Air Rifle shooter.
Major: Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing
Fun Fact: Askhita was both a global title holder and a beauty entrepreneur at the same time. She was crowned Miss Teen Universal 2025, and alongside that, she is also the Executive Director of her own beauty brand, Chéri Cosmetics.
Major: Advertising and Marketing Communications
Fun Fact: Amanda grew up on a farm!
Major: Advertising and Marketing Communications
Fun Fact: Amanda is currently learning Italian as her third language!
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Ananya creates content on Instagram!
Major: Fashion Business Management
Fun Fact: Anika has played 5 sports competitively in their life.
Major: Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing
Fun Fact: Aniya is double jointed!
Major: Illustration
Fun Fact: Anniya is a competitive gamer!
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Anu can speak 2 languages fluently and can understand 3 more
Major: Advertising and Marketing Communications
Fun Fact: Arsheya assisted and scrubbed into a hernia repair surgery!
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Ava has a twin sister! Although they look very similar, they aren’t identical. Her twin currently attends college in Virginia.
Major: Advertising and Marketing Communications
Fun Fact: Ayanna is a sewing teacher!
Major: Textile / Surface Design
Fun Fact: Binny may seem quiet and introverted at first, but once you get to know them, their fun, outgoing, and honest personality comes out. Their friends especially love teasing them because Binny’s genuine reactions always make everyone laugh.
Major: Advertising and Marketing Communications
Fun Fact: Brady’s first job ever was a horse back riding instructor.
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Carmen played the clarinet for four years
Major: Communication Design
Fun Fact: Cat enjoys archery and loves cats!
Major: Illustration
Fun Fact: Charlie is super sporty! She grew up playing softball and volleyball and was even co-captain of her softball team. She also loves going to the gym and watching sports.
Major: Advertising and Digital Design
Fun Fact: Christine runs a one-woman beauty salon (hair, nails, & makeup)
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Cosmar collects teapots and cups!
Major: Technical Design
Fun Fact: Cynthia is a BTS fan!
Major: Advertising and Marketing Communications
Fun Fact: Daniela is super dorky about coloring books and stationary!
Major: Advertising and Marketing Communications
Fun Fact: Daniela is super dorky about coloring books and stationary!
Major: Advertising and Marketing Communications
Fun Fact: Domenic has played tennis, baseball, track, volleyball, and wrestling.
Major: Fashion Business Management
Fun Fact: Drithi originally wanted to go to culinary school before committing to FIT.
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Ella loves singing and dancing!!
Major: Advertising and Marketing Communications
Fun Fact: Emily has a cat and dog.
Major: Fashion Business Management
Fun Fact: Emma interned on Bad Bunny’s “NUEVAYoL” music video and even got to see him on set! She also recently attended her first Broadway show, Aladdin.
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Erika loves collecting and drying flowers! She hasn’t found a use for them just yet, so she currently has a box filled with her collection of dried flowers.
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Esperanza has 5 cats and 1 dog.
Major: Communication Design
Fun Fact: Gabby's favorite color is raspberry! It’s also her favorite fruit, and her family even has raspberry bushes in their backyard that grow every summer.
Major: Fashion Business Management
Fun Fact: Gia has danced since she was 2.
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Her name spelled backwards is still Hannah!
Major: Fine Arts
Fun Fact: Jade has recently discovered their love for wood burning.
Major: Fine Arts
Fun Fact: Jade loves avatar The Last Airbender
Major: International Trade and Marketing for the Fashion Industries
Fun Fact: Jagriti is passionate about fitness and loves challenging herself to get stronger every week!
Major: Spatial Experience Design
Fun Fact: Jane has a cat named Sage with green eyes.
Major: Communication Design
Fun Fact: Julia has played golf since I was 5 years old
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: June loves yellow characters like The Simpsons, Spongebob Squarepants, and Minions
Major: Fashion Business Management
Fun Fact: Kitty has skydived before!
Major: Communication Design
Fun Fact: Liana has a YouTube channel!
Major: Fashion Business Management
Fun Fact: Lily loves to read, and their favorite book of all time is Orlando by Virginia Woolf.
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Linda is double jointed!
Major: Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing
Fun Fact: Lisa enjoys snowboarding and loves to travel.
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Mia was a dancer for 11 years!
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Mia can recite the alphabet backwards
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Mila’s last name means apple in Mongolian
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Minh speaks 4 languages: English, Vietnamese, Spanish, and Italian.
Major: Art Market Studies
Fun Fact: Olivia HAS three cats and HAS cat allergies.
Major: Advertising and Digital Design
Fun Fact: When Onata was younger they had a pet turtle named Talula.
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: Oscar is a Michael Kors Endowed Scholarship winner.
Major: Communication Design
Fun Fact: Rebecca learned how to draw a girl before she could even write her own name—in fact, drawing girls actually helped her learn how to write it!
Major: Fashion Design
Fun Fact: A fun fact about Rianna is that she grew up helping with her family’s leather craft business, so art and crafting have been a part of her life from a young age!
Major: Fashion Business Management
Fun Fact: Rishika practices Bharatanatyam, a form of Indian classical dance, and also did Taekwondo for two years!
Major: Photography and Related Media
Fun Fact: Sarah likes to figure skate!
Major: Communication Design
Fun Fact: Sarah has seen Fantastic Mr. Fox over 15 times now
Major: Illustration
Fun Fact: Selina does not own any shoes with a heel higher than 2 inches!
Major: Advertising and Marketing Communications
Fun Fact: Sholka does assistant camera work for indie films! Currently minoring in Film and Media.
Major: Fashion Business Management
Fun Fact: Simar did National Level Archery in High School!
Major: Advertising and Digital Design
Fun Fact: Sophia once went on a scavenger hunt in the city to find her favourite singer's signed photocard.
Major: Technical Design
Fun Fact: A fun fact about Stephanie is that she loves creating little projects, like mood boards, and sketching out her ideas in her sketchbook!
Major: Advertising and Marketing Communications
Fun Fact: Taina has a pet parrot named Harry.
Major: Advertising and Marketing Communications
Fun Fact: Tripti is a national table tennis player
Major: Home Products Development
Fun Fact: Will is left-handed!
Major: Packaging Design
Fun Fact: Zoe can solve a Rubik's Cube in under 2 minutes.
Major: Fine Arts
Fun Fact: Zoe was on the FIT soccer team for two years!