With the arrival of our newest design apprentice thehappycorp global is truly living up to its international namesake. Catalina Girón comes to us from a family of painters in Santiago, Chile where she studies design at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. For her senior year she flew north to San Diego to see what the University of California could teach her about Visual Arts. And just a few weeks ago she caught thehappycorp’s big winking eye and we insisted this huasita pack her bags and join us in New York.

If you meet Catalina you’ll probably pick up on her magenta aura, the aura of luck. Bring Catalina along with you on an outing (like what you would go on with Mary Poppins) and you’re likely to get the best parking spot and the biggest scoop of ice cream. We can only speculate that Catalina’s gift comes from eating magic Chilean pony meat. When she was a little girl in Santiago she wouldn’t eat beef. Since red meat is a cornerstone of the South American diet, this presented a bit of a problem. Catalina’s parents told her beef was actually magic pony meat (as in My Little Pony). This pleased young Catalina. She wanted their powers of prophecy and luck. Magic pony’s are quite common (somewhat of a nuisance) in the Andes, so Catalina pursued her new favorite food with great gusto. It seems like it worked: Catalina glides around thehappycorp on enchanted air.

Look for Catalina waving her wand at the next LVHRD event, or on the back patio at our next happyhour. Don’t be fooled by the plethora of cute that augments her outfits. Catalina has been to Patagonia and back, that part of the world where the wind blows so hard trees grow out of the ground sideways. To get a better idea of how talented this young lady is, check out her graphic design work and experimental videos. We’re happy she’s on our side.