
NYU Alumni-Owned Business Directory
Show your Violet pride by supporting NYU alumni-owned businesses! The NYU Alumni-Owned Business Directory gives alumni the opportunity to share information about their businesses–from restaurants to virtual counseling, this directory showcases the diverse passions and talents of the alumni community and how you can support them.
Recently Added Businesses
These featured businesses have been newly added to the directory, continuing to showcase the diverse and talented alumni community.
Arts, Culture, and Entertainment, Beauty, Fashion, Shopping & Retail
Sparkles and Colors USA Inc. is a multigenerational international family business in the global gemstone industry. We work with loose sapphires, rubies, and emeralds of all qualities and origins. We are starting to make beautiful finished jewelry pieces as well.
Drishti Lakhi
GPH
2025
Business Services, Marketing & Advertising
Ry Marie Marketing is a boutique web design, development, and marketing studio based in Brooklyn, NY, serving small businesses nationwide. Services include custom hand-coded websites, Shopify and Squarespace builds, Google Ads and SEO, and ongoing site maintenance and support.
Founded by an NYU Tisch alum with a background in film production and 15+ years in corporate sales and marketing, Ry Marie Marketing combines creative craft with strategic thinking to help small business owners build a strong digital presence and grow.
Ryann Thompson
TSOA
PROMO: 10% off for the NYU community
Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, Shopping & Retail
Curiosa is a health-focused juice bar and café in Mexico City’s La Condesa, inspired by the fresh, vibrant wellness culture of Southern California. We serve clean, nourishing food and drinks made with quality ingredients, from cold-pressed juices and smoothies to wholesome bowls, coffee, and thoughtfully prepared café favorites.
Our menu is designed around simple, feel-good ingredients, with a focus on fresh produce, balanced nutrition, and no seed oils. Whether you’re grabbing a morning coffee, refueling after a workout, or looking for a healthy lunch, Curiosa offers food that is both nourishing and genuinely delicious.
More than just a café, Curiosa is a neighborhood space for people who care about what they eat and how they feel—bringing a relaxed, sunny California sensibility to the heart of Mexico City.
Monica Belot
CAS
2011
Promo: 10% off; No expiration date
Travel & Hospitality
Rewild Safaris is a conservation-focused safari company that designs transformative wildlife experiences for individuals, families, and corporate groups. We specialize in custom private safaris and conservation-driven journeys that connect travelers directly with wildlife, conservationists, local communities, and the field projects working to protect our planet's most important ecosystems. Rewild positions itself as "a conservation organization that works through safari," using travel as a vehicle to create advocates for wildlife and wild places.
Our services include tailor-made safaris throughout Africa, Latin America, Asia, and other emerging wildlife destinations; executive and affinity group travel; photographic safaris; and multigenerational family adventures. Each journey is designed to deliver exceptional travel experiences while supporting conservation, sustainability, and local communities.
James Ward
STERN
2001
Health & Wellness
Feminist, trauma-informed creative arts therapy & EMDR for women, LGBTQIA+ folks, and artists, virtually across New York & in our Brooklyn office. We approach art therapy from an anti-oppressive, culturally aware, feminist perspective. We consider these principles to be the foundation of our work - whether we're sitting with anxiety, trauma, an eating disorder, or the specific weight of making a creative life in New York
Adrienne Trager Figueiredo
STEINHARDT
2012
PROMO: 3 individual therapy sessions for $550 (normally $600). No expiration date!
Arts, Culture, and Entertainment, Marketing & Advertising, Shopping & Retail
MLOW is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist who combines photography, AI, GANs, and 3D art to create vibrant digital landscapes and surreal portraits.
With a background in Arts & Science from NYU and ongoing studies at NYU Wagner, Low's work explores the intersection of technology and human experience. His innovative approach has garnered recognition in the Crypto Art world, including awards such as Optimism’s We Love The Art competition in the AI category and features in prominent digital art spaces such as Beeple Studios. MLow’s podcast, the MLow Show, engages with the broader NFT art community and has hosted over 50 of the top Crypto Art collectors & artists.
Through this work, Low invites viewers to question reality and imagine alternative worlds, using digital alchemy to transform data and code into experiences that resonate on a human level. His art serves as a bridge between technology and spirituality, creating a visual language for the digital age that speaks to our deepest human experiences and aspirations.
M Low
CAS, WAG
2021, 2026
Promo: Mention that you are part of the NYU Community to receive 10% off
Health & Wellness
Nurse practitioner owned telehealth psychiatry practice offering medication management and short term therapy.
Kelli Hamilton
MEYERS
2016, 2021
Beauty, Business Services, Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, STEM & Education
Mush America is dedicated to filling gaps in the existing American Mushroom market through innovation.
Tyler Rozell
STEINHARDT
2021
Arts, Culture, and Entertainment
Berkman's fine art print series "Thirty-six Views of One World Trade Center" about the rebuilding of One World Trade Center brings together her experience as an artist, firefighter, 9/11 first responder, feminist, lawyer, historian, and social justice advocate. Other of her artworks are featured online as well.
Brenda Berkman
LAW
1978
Legal
Bilasz Rexroat & Eisenfeld, PLLC represents workers throughout New York State in prosecuting workers’ compensation and Social Security disability claims. We fight for the workers who keep New York running—because standing up for injured and mistreated employees isn’t just our job, it’s essential to the soul of the city. Your fight is our fight. With over 40 years of combined experience and deep ties to the labor community, we deliver hands-on legal support, fierce advocacy, and the insider know-how needed to win when the stakes are high.
Lauren M. Bilasz, Esq.
CAS
2008
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Kathryn N. Sano
STEINHARDT
2021
Business Services, Career Development
WordSmith Leadership partners with organizations during high-stakes leadership moments where credibility, alignment, trust, and execution matter to business performance.
Organizations bring us in when there is:
A high-potential leader stepping into an expanded scope, enterprise leadership role, or new organizational context
An executive transition where early credibility, stakeholder alignment, and trust are critical to long-term success
A succession planning investment focused on preparing high-potential talent for critical roles before the transition occurs
A leadership team navigating organizational change, restructuring, or rapid growth where alignment, trust, and execution are essential
A valued leader whose capability is not yet translating into the organizational impact, influence, or stakeholder confidence the role requires
A high-potential woman leader or leader of color navigating increased visibility, credibility, and influence in environments where they may be underrepresented
Sabine Smith
SPS
2007
Promo: Free 30-minutes Strategy Call












