We bring the healing to you.
Healing HeARTS Mobile Art Studio is a mobile non-profit organization committed to bringing healing and hope to the community through expressive arts and self-care resources. We believe, despite the challenges that people of all ages face in today’s world, that lives can change with just a little timely support.
John Rathnam, Board Member
Rusty DiNicola, Board Member
Rusty DiNicola, Board Member
John Rathnam is President of Rathnam Capital, a private wealth management firm he founded 13 years ago located in Vienna, Virginia. Prior to that, John was a financial advisor with McLean Asset Management Corp in McLean, Virginia, advising high net-worth clients and business owners. Prior to that engagement, John worked at Freddie Mac in several capacities from computer programmer to investor relations over his 13 years with the company. John grew up in northern Virginia, received his BA in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1985, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Rusty DiNicola, Board Member
Rusty DiNicola, Board Member
Rusty DiNicola, Board Member
Rusty DiNicola has been building organizations that provide innovative solutions to internal and external customers through the integration of leadership principals, business processes, and technology for over two decades. Since 2000, Rusty has been focused on driving organizational growth and performance for small to medium size organizations as they grew into market leaders. His previous experience includes stops at EDS, PwC, Quorum Software, Riversand Technologies, EnterWorks, and Pivotree in a variety of roles. He serves as a board member for Healing HeARTS.
Kathy Ruais, Board Member
Rusty DiNicola, Board Member
Ramesh Prabhala, Board Member
Kathy is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with 20+ years of progressive experience in the field of accounting. She fostered 20+ years of oversight, guidance, and management of all aspects of the accounting functions as the CFO for a non-profit with a multi-million-dollar budget. Kathy has provided outsourced accounting services as a Senior Manager in a local CPA Firm. She is currently the Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors for Healing HeARTS Mobile Art Studio.
Ramesh Prabhala, Board Member
Ramesh Prabhala, Board Member
Ramesh Prabhala, Board Member
Ramesh Prabhala is the founder of IntelliTide — an analytics platforms and services company which harnesses the power of Data Science, Data Management and AI to improve business efficiency, productivity and revenue. Prior to founding IntelliTide, Ramesh worked in various technical management, engineering and consulting roles for companies like Microsoft and HP.
Amy Craddock, Board Member
Ramesh Prabhala, Board Member
Amy Craddock, Board Member
Amy Craddock spent 8 years in the United States Navy as an Aviation Electrician’s Mate. I spent both enlistments stationed in Jacksonville, Florida. During her time in the Navy, she made several deployments overseas during Desert Shield and Desert Storm. She left the Navy after the last deployment to start her family, and has four daughters and now two grandsons. She was a stay-at-home mom for close to 12 years before moving back into the workforce, working with the Brevard County Public Schools, and later as a Legislative Aide for one of the Brevard County Commissioners. She also worked with the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office in Human Resources. In 2020, she chose to make the leap from the public sector to the private sector by taking a position at GenH2, a liquid hydrogen infrastructure company.
Meet our Lead Artist & Founder
Diana DiNicola has loved art since her childhood. She enjoyed drawing and painting during her early years but lost touch with her artistic side when she went to high school. She then went to Virginia Tech to study Finance and spent a decade in that field. It wasn’t until she decided to stay at home to raise her children that she rekindled her passion for art.
Her journey of rediscovering artistic passion began with painting flower pots and then expanded over the years to hand-painted glassware, custom designed guitars, pickguards and drum heads, mixed media and abstract art, mosaics, signs, logos, and several murals in schools, businesses and private homes.
During this time, Diana also created an art camp program that she offered to children and teens in her community. Seeing how the participants were positively affected by the art they created touched something inside her. Subsequently, she began a journey of giving back. She was able to share art as a universal language that not only opened new perspectives, but also brought hope and healing. She offered expressive art workshops and organized community murals in homeless shelters, in teen residential treatment centers, to teens aging out of the foster care system, to soldiers suffering from PTSD, and to children and adults on mission trips.
All of this, as well as having teen girls who struggled with anxiety and depression who chose art as one of their coping tools, led to the creation of Healing HeARTS Mobile Art Studio in 2016. Since then, Diana has offered expressive arts and self-care resources to the community for hope and healing.
To continue growing and learning in her practice, Diana has completed many art workshops, classes and certifications, including: