Joyce Richardson, President, is a retired music educator, having served 33 years of teaching general and vocal music in her hometown of Perth Amboy. During her tenure, she was awarded Anthony V, Ceres School Teacher of the Year, New Jersey Music Educators Association Master Music Teacher, and the Governor’s Award in Arts Education. Dr. Richardson earned her Bachelor and Master in Music degrees from Westminster Choir College and her Doctorate in the Musical Arts in Music Education from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Dr. Richardson was awarded the Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminars Abroad to Mexico in 2010. The scholarship consisted of study throughout the Yucatan Peninsula with travel to the Mexican states of Yucatan, Quintana Roo, and Campeche with explorations of Palenque, Oaxaca, Mexico City, the pyramids of Chichén Itzá, Ballet Folklorico de Mexico, among other cultural institutions and historical sights of significance within Mexico.