Please welcome Marisa Pierson, Office Manager, to the ACI family! We are happy to have her!
Marisa Pierson retired from Rutgers in 2016 after 27 years of service, twelve of those as the senior program coordinator of the Clement A. Price Institute at Rutgers’ Newark campus. While at Newark, Marisa established the semi-annual Dance Symposium series in 2005 which features educational workshops and full evening performances with professional dance companies. Marisa joined the Price Institute in Newark in 2004 following 16 years managing a variety of radio and television projects at Rutgers-New Brunswick campus.
As an instructor and performer of Middle Eastern Dance, Marisa has taught for local school districts and at Rutgers-New Brunswick and the College of New Jersey, and integrated bellydance classes for ACI. She also sponsors local dance seminars in New Jersey. She is artistic director of the Mystic Moonlight Dancers of Ocean County NJ which performs for community festivals and facilities (including NJDPP 2018!).
