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Jacqui Shumway
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- Denver, CO
- United States
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- Tai Chi Project/TCM College of Sports Medicine
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- Director of Education and Outreach
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Jacqui Shumway, M.A., B.B.A., currently serves the state of Colorado as Chair for The National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity and on the Colorado Governors Council for Physical Fitness. She also serves as Western Region Director for the National Association of Health and Fitness: the Network of State and Governor's Councils. She has served on the CoAHPERD Board and Advocacy Committee, as NAHF Board Secretary, and as a 5-year community partner of Park Hill Thriving Communities.
Jacqui's community organizing includes many physical fitness, music, and art outreach through board and committee positions on the Greater Park Hill Community, Inc., Martin Luther King, Jr. Marade, City Park Alliance, Stapleton Healthy Neighborhoods Council, Park Hill PTSA Auction Chair and Walk/Bike Committee, and Colorado Ceasefire. She and her family sing in their church choirs, perform at community events, and play drums and percussion. In addition to continuing work on her Tai Chi Chuan and dance skills, Jacqui loves to bicycle everywhere and practice "greening as often as possible."
Jacqui has worked on many political issues that involve all areas of living in Colorado. She actively testifies on issues before the state congressional education committees - specifically those dealing with nutrition, physical activity, and the arts. She also works vigorously for initiatives to and candidates who reduce violence and improve mental health.
Her Safe Routes to School and Walkable Community volunteer efforts earned her a grant from the CDC and an invitation to present with her husband for the Oxford Roundtable in Oxford, England. Other Boards on which she has served include Rocky Mountain ACSM, Holistic Health Advisory to MSCD, local AAUW, American Society on Aging Local Arrangements, Colorado Governors Council for Physical Fitness, Million Mom March, and was part of the Colorado 1998 CDC AIM 30 Team.
Jacqui's graduate research at University of Northern Colorado focused on healthcare provider barriers to preventive and rehabilitative exercise. Jacqui is currently adjunct faculty at several higher education institutions in Colorado and in community settings. For 13 years, she was on the faculty of the Depts. of Human Performance, Sport and Leisure Studies and Health Professions at Metropolitan State College of Denver, teaching Tai Chi Chuan, Qi-Gong, Drumming Therapy and special populations inclusion in Physical Activity. She was honored as a 2007/2008 MetroLeads Fellow. Jacqui also served as Special Programs Director at The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Fitness Facility for 10 years and continues to be a popular workshop presenter.
Jacqui uses her finance and economics education from Stephen F. Austin State University and her accounting skills to run the business side of their operation. She also has served as treasurer for various organizations.
- Tell us how you feel about arts education
- Well-rounded people are CREATIVE AND LOGICAL...
They can focus on the immediate problem TO SOLVE
the long-term/big picture...
They can avoid unintended consequences because they anticipate ALL POSSIBILITIES...
We have to quit ignoring that cutting Arts, Music and Physical Fitness has devastated our public education system over the last 30 years!
1) Academic Achievement has fallen!
2) Drop-out rates have increased!
3) Our children's health is seriously compromised!
So how do we pay for it? Let "creatives in business" - entrepreneurs - solve this problem!
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