GMPA Board & Administration
Heather Morris, Executive Director
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Heather is passionate about working for mission-driven organizations that serve kids and kids-at-heart. This interest started with managing the international adoption programs at Frank Foundation, Child Assistance International with offices in Washington, DC and Moscow, Russia and has continued through the successful completion of Marlboro College's Certificate in Nonprofit Management and now in her role as GMPA's Executive Director. While Heather's main focus for the past fifteen years has been on Celtic dance and music, she highly values how all of performing arts has the power to build confidence, excellence and discipline in its participants.
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Richard Pritsky, MLS: Board President/Treasurer
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In his current retirement, Richard Pritsky is Assistant Director of the Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg; treasurer of the Hinesburg Community Resource Center (HCRC); technical leader of the Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries (VOKAL) consortium; and a new and dancer at GMPA. His 20+ years of professional library experience was bisected by 20+ years at IBM in positions ranging from Systems Engineer to I/T Architect. He has an A.B. in philosophy from Bucknell University and an M.L.S. from Rutgers. Richard is also a student of arts enjoying dance, song and theater through adult lessons at GMPA.
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John Bauer
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John brings experience in fundraising and community organizing. His arts background lies in sound and stage; he worked as a live sound engineer, recording engineer and record producer in Detroit until he sold his studio and moved to Vermont. Bauer a long time Vermont resident recently moved to Waterbury drawn by its strong sense of community. Bauer is a firm believer in that the arts are very important to the fabric of our lives. Bauer is currently works as the Sound Supervisor at the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe.
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Karen Cormier: Secretary
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Karen is a performance/visual artist and former resident of Vermont living in Santa Fe, NM, and working as a bilingual educator at Momentum Bilingual Preschool. She remains committed to GMPA and to bringing the arts to rural populations. She was formerly an educator and office manager at The Children's Early Learning Space. Karen considers herself ever a representative of the creative energy of New York City and has offered arts education to all ages in the U.S and abroad. She began her stage life on tour with the Greenwich Ballet Workshop in Germany at 14, and assists GMPA with choreography coaching, curriculum development, marketing and grant seeking.
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Pamela Lord
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Pam is a retired educator, who taught Health and Family & Consumer Science. She was born and raised in Burlington, VT., and has been interested in the arts all her life. Upon retiring she started her own business, Pamela Creations, using her background in fashion design.
She is currently a member of South County Chorus, All Souls Interfaith Choir and In Accord, an A Capella group. She has danced with the Green Mountain Cloggers, a performing group, since the 80's. She is an avid hiker, walker, Tai Chi practitioner, gardener, kayak-er and motorcyclist. In the past she was a member of the Essex Players and practiced Martial Arts for many years, before teaching the art with her husband, for another ten years. She would like to see all children exposed to a variety of Arts, and is concerned that support needs to be both local and national. |
Jessica Schiller |
A recent transplant to Waterbury, Vermont, Jessica is a Data Analyst at the State of Vermont after a ten year career in Information Technology in Chicago, Atlanta, and New York City and a B.S. in Applied Networking and System Administration from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her interest in the performing arts started at drama club in a rural school district in Pennsylvania as a teenager and continues as a member of the Waterbury Improv Troupe. One of her recent performances included The Lady in the Inflatable T-Rex Suit Giving All Kids High Fives at the Waterbury Not Quite Independence Day Parade.
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GMPA is looking for new board members!
This is an extraordinary opportunity for an individual who is passionate about GMPA's mission and who has a track record of board leadership or community involvement. Selected Board Members will have achieved leadership stature in business, government, philanthropy, or the nonprofit sector.
This is an extraordinary opportunity for an individual who is passionate about GMPA's mission and who has a track record of board leadership or community involvement. Selected Board Members will have achieved leadership stature in business, government, philanthropy, or the nonprofit sector.
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