Ruth is a Senior Engineer for a Phoenix-based research and development company. She has more than 17 years of corporate management and executive leadership experience in areas of Quality and Manufacturing. She is a member of the National her Graduate School Masters faculty and has developed and presented Quality Leadership and Mentor programs.
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She also works for The Foundation for Blind Children in Phoenix, Arizona in a preschool setting, working with children ages 3-5 who are multiply handicapped. Celeste was voted “Employee of the Year” in 2003. She is very passionate in her work with children and is committed to providing the best experiences she can to each child. Celeste has a creative ability to provide programming that meets each child’s needs.  She recognizes each person, not as disabled, but as someone who learns differently. Email Me

Sue Grzybowski
Volunteer Coordinator
Sue is a fun loving mother of two teenage daughters who attend Notre Dame Preparatory High School. She is also a Promotional Consultant with AHhhh & Lee Wayne Promotional Products where she helps companies effectively use advertising specialties to promote their business. You can view her website at www.ahpromo.com

Sue was one of the people who helped launch the Magic of Music and Dance camp in 2007. Sue will be responsible for recruiting both teen & adult volunteers for the 2008 camps. Sue recognizes and appreciates the fact that the camps can’t run without the volunteers and will do everything possible to help the volunteers have a great experience at the camp. Sue also understands how lives are transformed through service to others of both the volunteer and the people who are being served. Sue has gotten several high schools in the valley to recognize this program as an accredited program for community service hours.

If you would like to volunteer you may use the forms from this website or if you have any questions or would like Sue to come and talk to your group of teens about the opportunities for volunteers and community service hours please feel free to call her direct at 602-481-2697 Email Me

Liz Dunham
Liz was born and raised in Colorado. She moved to Phoenix metropolitan area 24 years ago. Liz and her husband Mark share their home with her son Patrick, Mark’s son Barrett and their canine royalty–Shep and Lilly.

She is an energetic and enthusiastic advocate for Special Needs initiatives.  In her role with the Arizona Magic of Music & Dance, she oversees fund raising and special projects devoted to acquiring donations, sponsors and support to fill specific requests of our Special Needs participants.

Germán Aguilar
Music
Germán Aguilar is excited to be involved with the Arizona Magic of Music and Dance organization! He believes wholeheartedly in the vision of the program and in all the wonderful things it does for all youth involved.

For seven years, Germán taught in the Mesa Public Schools, spending the last five of these as the Director of Choirs at Mesa High School. Under his direction, the MHS choirs, musical theater productions, and choral students consistently earned top honors at regional and state-level thespian, choral, and vocal festivals. In 2007, the Mesa High A Cappella Choir achieved a major highlight when it was selected for honored performance at the State of Arizona Music Educators Association Annual Convention. Next year, Germán will begin his new appointments up north as the director of the Northern Arizona University Men’s Chorale and the Master Chorale of Flagstaff while he works on his master’s degree in choral conducting.

Germán held positions as officer and regional governor for both the Choral Directors of Arizona and the Arizona Music Educators Association. For three years, he was honored to serve as the coordinator of the Arizona All-State Honor Choir. In addition to AZMMD, Germán has also served on the faculty of the NAU Summer Music Camp and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Summer Music Clinic.

Marsha has been called The Accountability Master because she dares people to take personal responsibility for their choices, success and life. She is original, unique, and a one-of-a-kind professional speaker and author who is also an accomplished outdoorsman, award winning fisherman and landscape photographer. She challenges every morsel of your beliefs while entertaining and enlightening. Marsha is the author of the award winning CEO of YOU: Leading YOURSELF to Success. In addition, she holds her MBA and is a former Executive Vice President of Westinghouse Financial American Directory Project.

Al Sue, Marsha’s husband, really is a boy named Sue. They live in Scottsdale, Arizona and escape the death defying Valley of the Sun summers by retreating to their cabin in the Arizona White Mountains where they are fishermen, birders, and hikers. You can also catch them traveling to exotic places for outdoor activities.