Meet Our AZ Stitch Lab Team

We're excited to share our AZ Stitch Lab team below. To read bios, please scroll below.

STEPHANIE PIEROTTI

Statewide Executive Director, AZ Stitch Lab

MARIE TEEMANT

Instructor - TUCSON
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TINA LA CHANCE

Instructor - WINSLOW
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ERICA YNGVE

Founder, Sonoran Stitch Factory - TUCSON

DENNIS PHILLIPS

Instructor - TUCSON
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MAGGIE SALCEDO

Production Supervisor - TUCSON

SCOTT HATHCOCK

CEO, Moonshot (Nonprofit)
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TEAM BIOS

Stephanie Pierotti - Statewide Executive Director

Bio coming soon

Erica Yngve - Tucson Entrepreneur in Residence

Erica Yngve, Founder/Owner, Sonoran Stitch Factory
AZ Stitch Lab Tucson Entrepreneur in Residence
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Erica Yngve is the owner and President of Sonoran Stitch Factory. As a serial entrepreneur, Erica has two other companies based in Tucson, AZ including:

• Bralessly – a fashion brand featuring products for women who want to live comfortably and modest. This start-up won Tucson’s 2019 IdeaFunding competition.
• Postcraft Products – a 90-year old company featuring industrial sewn products for housing, healthcare, hotels & resorts, and cruise ships.

Originally from Tucson, Erica started her career in manufacturing and operations, and later worked as a partner at an import company. She has served on the advisory boards for the National Small Business Association and the Pima Community College Fashion Design Program. Erica received her MBA in operations management from DePaul University, and her undergraduate degrees in business management and German studies from the University of Arizona. Erica lives in Tucson with her husband and three sons.
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Maggie Salcedo - Tucson Production Supervisor/Instructor

Maggie Salcedo, Production Supervisor
​Maggie is the Production Supervisor for Sonoran Stitch factory, specializing in pre-production for the Apparel division of Sonoran Stitch Factory. Maggie took her schooling in design at Pima Community College and applied it immediately to her work here: working directly with designers, guiding the Production Assistants in their weekly tasks, and keeping track of inventory.  In addition to her responsibilities as Production Supervisor, Maggie works closely with the AZ Stitch Lab students and instructors to develop lesson plans, engage in demonstrations and monitor course objectives and relevancy to the employment marketplace.  

Marie Teemant - Tucson INstructor

Marie Teemant, Instructor

​Marie Teemant is a sewist, photographer, maker, and teacher. While she has lived throughout the west, Marie grew up in Henderson, Nevada and has been in Tucson since 2014, when she moved to Arizona for graduate studies. Marie learned sewing growing up, gaining the basic skills through her jobs pinning, clipping, cutting out patterns, and cleaning up threads on the various projects her mother worked on. Marie has expanded these skills, designing, drafting, and sewing her own projects from start to finish. It is a privilege to now work with new, industrial sewists on gaining the skills they need to have long term success in their own sewing journey. 

Dennis Phillips - Tucson INstructor

Dennis Phillips, Instructor
With 32 years experience in the industrial sewing field, Dennis has worked with apparel, upholstery, automobile trimming, commercial tent fabrication, awning construction and more.  In addition to his work with the Stitch Lab, he is employed full-time as Lead Designer and Fabricator for a local tactical and body armor manufacturer.  Dennis spends much of his spare time sewing side projects and caring for his dog, Boo. ​

Scott Hathcock - President/CEO Moonshot

Scott Hathcock, President & CEO, Moonshot
Scott is the President & CEO of Moonshot, a 21-year-old 501 c3 nonprofit.  The mission of Moonshot is to assist entrepreneurs in building and scaling start-ups as well as developing entrepreneur ecosystems for economic development purposes across Arizona.  Learn more at www.moonshotaz.com

Tina La Chance - Winslow Instructor

Tina has been serving the Flagstaff community with her expertise in industrial sewing for the
past 15 years, both as a business owner and an employee. Partnering with several businesses
in town, she has developed programs that hire, train, and retain, highly skilled craftspeople as
employees and independent contractors. She has also served her community’s individual sewing needs through her business Red Thread Sewing, LLC; offering alterations and other professional sewing services.

Together we hope to offer these skills over the course of three six week intensive sewing
courses, covering heavy duty and clothing manufacturing and construction, technical machine care and maintenance, and business basics applying to the art of sewing for your community. Tina is eager to share the skills she has learned which have allowed her to thrive in her community and in her chosen career throughout the years.