PADCYE Board

Volunteer Officers

Corie Pollock, President

Corie is a Bay Area native who has been teaching recreational, competitive, and adaptive dance classes for the past 10 years. Her competitive routines have won top awards and several of her students have developed professional careers. Corie enjoys teaching Jazz, Lyrical, and Musical Theatre, young children’s Ballet and Tap, and movement classes for people with developmental and cognitive disabilities. Corie believes that in order to become a great artist, you must also be a great person. She takes pride in training her dancers to be humble, dedicated, confident, and kind. Corie has a wonderful husband and an adventurous one year old son and is thrilled to support PADCYE!

Jennifer Kulz-Smith, Secretary

Jennifer received her ballet training in San Francisco with the Academy of Ballet, Dancers' Stage, Lanova Academy, City Ballet School and Boston Ballet School. She has performed with various Bay Area companies including the Peninsula Ballet Theater, San Francisco Dance Theater, and the Santa Clara Ballet. She performed in the San Francisco production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" for 4 1/2 years. Jennifer has two beautiful adult daughters, and has been teaching at Dance Connection for the past 21 years.

Cindy Ginanni, Treasurer

As the founding director of Dance Connection for the past 35 years, Cindy has shared dance for over 45 years with all ages and abilities in the community. She was the founding Treasurer of PADCYE, and happy to return to the position and volunteer her time to the mission of PADCYE. Cindy enjoys sharing time with her husband, Mark, and their three grown children and their families which include four grandchildren.

PADCYE Volunteer Board of Directors:

Alexa DeGraca Rodriguez, Cynthia Pham Gordon, Peter Hershey, Melissa Tannus, Francis Tyrell