2017 Viola Award Nominee for Excellence in Leadership Michael Vincent retired from his position as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Northern Arizona University in May 2016. During his 10-year tenure, he led the college through considerable growth and activity. Vincent was given the Juliana Yoder Friend of the Humanities Award, presented [...]
2017 Viola Award Nominee for Excellence in Leadership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4UIT_mL2qo James Jay (right) and Jesse Sensibar are the creative minds behind Flagstaff's premier literary event, The Northern Arizona Book Festival. Through thousands of volunteer man and woman hours this all volunteer organization event has been bringing authors, poets, playwrights and publishers together in Flagstaff for 21 [...]
2017 Viola Award Nominee for Excellence in Leadership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVIlKZ3Dai4 Janelle Reasor has worked as the Magnet Programs Coordinator at Marshall Elementary School since 2008. As such, she works tirelessly to bring extracurricular activities in the arts and sciences to the students of Marshall. Through successful fundraising efforts, she has created a thriving extracurricular program at [...]
2017 Viola Award Nominee for Excellence in Leadership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kGZCThXBTY Mindy Bell has been the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) Coordinator for STEM City since soon after Flagstaff was declared America’s 1st STEM Community in 2012. Her primary role is to connect the STEM-rich resources in Flagstaff with our K-12 students to both increase STEM literacy [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao6nc3Huvs0 Matt Ziegler is the owner of Greenhouse Productions. He has a degree in anthropology with an emphasis in ethnomusicology. Before it was common to have many national acts playing in Flagstaff, Matt brought us Greenhouse Productions. Greenhouse Productions is well known for bringing Flagstaff well known artists such as: Jimmy Cliff, Arlo Guthrie, Roger [...]
https://youtu.be/FXXbg3tWwGI Dr. Robert Breunig, retired as President of the Museum of Northern Arizona on June 30, 2015 after which he became President Emeritus of MNA. He had served 11 and a half years as Director and CEO of MNA and most recently as President. Robert first came to MNA in 1975 as the museum’s first [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtkgFt9lpns Janelle Reasor has been the Magnet Programs Coordinator at Eva Marshall Elementary since 2008. She wears many hats and continually seeks new opportunities to be involved in FUSD and Flagstaff community. As the art and science integration specialist, she teaches essential emerging literacy intervention classes as well as science and language-arts extension classes to [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC0tfsyzr_E Terri Engel is the Hozhoni Foundations’s Day Program Administrator. Terri has a degree in Art education from Columbus College of Art and Design and Special Education form the Ohio State University. Over 20 years, Terri has been an advocate for individuals with disabilities. Terri is the driving force for people with special challenges and [...]
https://youtu.be/T03KwGMonGI Christian B. Luginbuhl is a Flagstaff astronomer, naturalist, amateur botanist and dark sky enthusiast. He is recently retired from the United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station, where he worked for over 30 years on a variety of photometric and astrometric projects. His early research was involved with star-forming regions, young stars, and transient phenomena [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr3-CvtxirM Jeff Hall is the Director of the world-renowned Lowell Observatory since 2010, but has been a part of the staff there since 1992. He has a BA in Physics from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics from Pennsylvania State University. His research at Lowell has focused on solar and stellar [...]
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