Executive Board Members
Name: Tate Noah Dowell
Year in School: Junior
Major: Fire Science Minor: Scuba
Position: Vice President of External Affairs
Why I DM: I DM to put smiles on the Miracle families faces. I believe that if I put a smile on someone’s face I know that I made their day better and their life a little bit easier and more enjoyable.
Name: Shelby Garman
Year in School: Senior
Major: Agribusiness
Position: Co-Director of Dancer Relations
Why I DM: I DM for those who don’t have the chance to live out a “normal” childhood. No kid should have to spend their worry free years in a hospital bed, worrying about their test results.
Name: Maddie Stambaugh
Year in School: Junior
Major: Special Education & Elementary Education
Position: Co-Director of Dancer Relations
Why I DM: I DM for the kids that are fighting their fight inside and out of the hospitals!
Name: Briana Cline
Year in School: Senior
Major: Psychology Minor: Neuroscience
Position: VP of Internal
Why I DM: I DM because of kid deserves a childhood that includes memories full of laughter, fun, and with all their families and not inside hospitals with tubes, shots, and tests
Name: Mary Leamon
Year in school: junior
Major: Elementary Education
Position: VP of Communication
Why I DM: I DM for all the kiddos and families who don’t deserve their diagnoses. I am inspired by the bravery, courage, and strength that I have seen in these kids and I am honored to be able to join them in their fight!
Name:Alexis McGinnis
Year: Junior
Major: Fire Science
Position: Special Events
Why I DM: I DM because I want to do what I can to help the kids and their families. I want to bring smiles to their faces. I have two nieces and would want the support Dance Marathon provides if they ever were in a CMN hospital. I am inspired by everything I have seen by being apart of this organization.
Name: Gracie Richardson
Year: Junior
Major: History Education
Position: Director of Fundraising
Why I DM: Over the last few DMs I have attended, I get so inspired by those kids who return year after year, same fight and drive as always. They are real and true survivors of disease and injury that I couldn’t imagine. I DM to make more survivors on this earth!
Name: Marc Ramirez
Year: Junior
Major: Communication
Position: Director of Morale
Why I DM: I dance to make a difference, to make someone smile, to change lives. Sometimes we don’t realize how the smallest things make the biggest impact and having a small role in it makes my heart whole. FTK!
Name: Julianna Kessler
Year: Senior
Major: Speech Pathology and Audiology
Position: President
Why I DM: I dance so the kids know they aren’t going through their fight alone and have a world of support behind them! I dance because I know that one person CAN make a difference and have a world of support behind them!
Name: Zoey Gray
Year: Senior
Major: Nursing
Position: Community Relations Chairman
Why I DM: I DM because I have a love of helping people and I want to make a difference in any way that I can.
Name: Danielle Olson
Year in School: Sophomore
Major: Special Education
Position: Director of Public Relations
Why I DM: I DM for the kids who I have worked with in organizations like Special Olympics and Best Buddies and so many other kids like them who could use our support and our love to help them to grow and live great lives full of opportunity and happiness!
Name: Cali Caruso
Year in School: Senior
Major: LEJA
Position: Co-Director of Special Events
Why I DM: I DM for my best friend’s 18 year old sister who has been battling a stage 4 cancer for almost six years. She has stood her ground and spoke up against childhood cancer and the 4% federal funding by raising money and awareness all across the world.
