Kalika Yap's Email & Phone

Native of Honolulu. Founder and CEO of the web design firm, Citrus Studios. After graduating from NYU with a degree in journalism, Kalika worked for several media firms including Bloomberg & CNBC. Kalika started her web career in 1996 at the Los Angeles Culture Net, a collaborative initiative project of the Getty Information Institute and California Culture Net. There she helped develop web curriculum, web site design workshops for individual artists, non-profits, art & educational institutions and students K-12. She later moved to the J. Paul Getty Trust as a Web Developer as part of the Getty's Web Services division of the Information Technology Services Department. There, she helped manage and develop the main Getty web site (www.getty.edu) and five separate Getty institution web sites including: the Museum, the Grant Program, the Getty Research Institute, Getty Information Institute, and the Getty Education Institute. Kalika has been featured on CNN and was a web design columnist for Silicon Salley. Kalika is an avid runner and has completed seven marathons in Los Angeles, New York and Long Beach. Kalika dances Hula, practices calligraphy, and makes fabulous collages and scrapbooks. Kalika loves letterpressed notecards & stationery, scented coconut pineapple candles, citrus smoothies & reading. Kalika received this year's Rising Star Award from the National Association of Women Business Owners. The awards ceremony also featured a short video on Kalika.