Through her leadership, Ballet Nevada/NPA continues to execute its mission of caring about our community and its future by educating and nurturing our children, teens and adults through outreach programs, professional performances and workshops, with a special emphasis on assisting those who experience socio or economic disadvantage. Recent accomplishments include the creation & direction of a program to increase awareness of and to prevent Sexual Assault; this program "No Means No" was recently nominated for an award by the Alliance for Victims Rights of Northern Nevada. She is Founder & Director of Ballet Nevada (2000); the school has a student enrollment of 150 and a staff of professional instructors from all over the United States and world. For the past 18 years, Carrie has successfully brought the possibility of the arts to hundreds of homeless and poverty stricken elementary school children with her Outreach Program for At-risk and Homeless Youth: The Wizard Within. This program has been honored with the Truckee Meadows Tomorrow Silver Star Award. Carrie has also been awarded the Nevada Womens Fund Woman of Achievement Award in 2003. She holds the distinguished honor of passing two Royal Academy of Dancing Majors Examinations and has completed extensive studies of the Royal Academy Children’s Syllabus in Toronto, Canada. As an artist, Carrie has performed principal roles in productions of Christmas Carol, The King and I, The Nutcracker, and University Spring Dance Concerts, as well as the opera Amahl and the Night Visitors. Miss Carrie's first dance instructor was one of the infamous Mouseketeers, Nancy Abbate.