Piper fellowship program

As a Mexican immigrant, she passionately volunteers in Latino civic engagement, various political campaigns, and voting efforts with her family.

She lives in Mesa, Arizona, with her husband and three children. She will participate in Stanford Graduate School of Business training courses on strategic investments.

It will provide me with new learning and development that helps clarify organizational vision and improve my ability to influence and engage stakeholders and partners. By maximizing my personal leadership power, Stardust will be able to enhance services, improve effectiveness, and ultimately become a leader in the reuse community.

Karen Jayne has over 30 years of experience in nonprofit and forprofit leadership, management, program design, and fund development. She is also a member of the U. Jayne has previously served in leadership capacities on the boards of the Organization of Nonprofit Executives as well as the national Building Materials Reuse Association, and the Social Enterprise Alliance Arizona Chapter.

In addition, the Piper Fellowship will provide access to resources that will allow her to consider opportunities through a more strategic lens. The Valley, state, country, and world have watched the normally quiet heroism of our brave healthcare professionals projected to the world stage.

I believe expanding my leadership skills at this pivotal time for Valleywise Health Foundation will provide great value—not just for myself and our team, but for the volunteer cabinet and board I lead as CEO, and as a result—for the families and patients served by Valleywise Health. My main hope is to inspire change through philanthropy and a combination of public and private partnerships.

Businesses and cities benefit, both economically and culturally, when their employees and people are thriving and resilient. A native Phoenician and fourth-generation Arizonan, Nate Lowrie is an entrepreneur with 20 years of experience starting and leading businesses in the Valley. For the past six years, with Lowrie at the helm, Valleywise Health Foundation has provided record philanthropic support to the health system through major gifts, grants, and individual giving toward critical patient and program needs.

Carey School of Business. Kilimanjaro with Team Courage Rising comprised of inspiring burn survivors, medical professionals, and supporters of the Arizona Burn Center at Valleywise. Lowrie believes the timing is ideal to grow his skills and apply the lessons learned from what will be a life-changing journey.

I am eager to start the journey and look forward to having time in the end to reflect on the experience. She holds a Master of Education in Counseling and has over 30 years of experience in the private, government, and nonprofit sectors.

Her primary focus has always involved issues concerning children, youth and families, education, and advocacy. She believes deeply in breaking the cycle of abuse, poverty, violence, and trauma to free women and children to live their best lives.

She has lobbied for health and education legislation, advocated for youth, volunteered for the Foster Care Review Board at the state and county levels, and served on the Arizona Life Coalition. She sees the Fellowship as an opportunity to leverage resources for personal growth and enhanced organizational health. Magruder will focus on executive coaching, a mix of processing and integrating new skills, and specifically developing the skills to advocate for systemic reforms in child-welfare policy and family well-being.

She will attend the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities Executive Leadership Conference and the Prevent Child Abuse Conference—both with themes of systems level change focused on building resilient families. Magruder believes her Fellowship will greatly complement and benefit this significant organizational work underway.

The Fellowship will enable me to focus on larger questions about expanding the continuum of youth development through music, scaling that expansion within our organization, and identifying how to better impact music education across the field. Regina Nixon joined Phoenix Conservatory of Music PCM in January of as an intern with a huge passion and commitment to the mission of creating quality music education experiences that are affordable and accessible for the community.

She will work with an executive coach as well as participate in best practices via site visits at the Music Settlement and the Lincoln Center among other groups that are centered on expanding the continuum of youth development programs through deep early childhood learning. Nixon will also explore workforce development specific to music and music education with a focus on effective and efficient scalability.

I am honored to be a part of the program and excited for the journey ahead. Jeri Royce is an accomplished, dynamic leader with over 30 years of experience in local and national nonprofits and a successful track record of building and leading strong partnerships and highly successful teams.

Royce spent 17 years in Washington, D. As a breast-cancer survivor, she has a unique perspective on the importance of health education, access to healthcare, and the role the social determinants of health play in diverse communities. Fellows are responsible for any additional costs incurred through their conference involvement. This being said, we are happy to connect fellows with local hotels or other resources in Phoenix, Arizona, and can readily supply fellowship award documentation to any institutions or organizations who may be providing financial assistance.

We also recommend checking in with your local arts commission or office of arts and culture for additional support. As part of their fellowship, individuals will also be required to complete a short essay reflecting on their Conference experience - words , due no later than April 1. Fellowship applications are evaluted by committee according to the strength of the session proposal, the individual's history of work, and overall fit within current conference offerings.

Please note: if you are resubmitting an application during an extension, please preface your title with "Resubmission. To apply for a fellowship for this year's Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, you can submit a fellowship application.

For more information about fellowships, contact Dana Tribke at Dtribke asu. Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. Piper Our Annual Report Reflecting on our work over the last year. Kathleen McNamara Jonathan Danielson. People Faculty, fellows, exhibitors and more Faculty Nationally recognized authors and editors Fellows Presenting voices that may not otherwise be heard Other Presenters Moderators, MFA students, and more Sponsors Supporting our larger literary community.

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Session Proposals Generally speaking, we are interested sessions with the following characteristics: Engaging : lively, dynamic sessions with innovative content presented through generative exercises, workshops, readings, discussions, small group work, and other conference formats Relevant: engage, explore, and advance current trends, topics, and issues in creative literature, publishing, and contemporary literature Interdisciplinary: approach their topics through different genres, styles, art forms, perspectives, or fields Inclusive: accurately portray and reflect the diversity of individuals within the larger literary community As a conference focused on craft and education, we tend to avoid sessions focusing exclusively on literary theory or the business of writing querying agents, getting published, marketing, etc.

Awards and Benefits Individuals who are selected as conference fellows will be offered a full or partial fellowship for conference tuition, and may attend and participate in all regular conference offerings as they see fit. Additional Financial Aid At this time, no additional assistance for travel, lodging, or other financial assistance for fellows is available.

Fellowship Reflections As part of their fellowship, individuals will also be required to complete a short essay reflecting on their Conference experience - words , due no later than April 1. Application Process Fellowship applications are evaluted by committee according to the strength of the session proposal, the individual's history of work, and overall fit within current conference offerings.