Cindy Ruenes, BA, BSN - UC Berkeley, Columbia

Cindy Ruenes has been involved with the Community Conservatory for several years as a parent of children taking music lessons, as a student herself, and now as the Program Coordinator for Neighborhood Notes, an arts outreach program bringing arts education to at-risk children in Bucks County.

Cindy became involved as a volunteer for the Neighborhood Notes program in 2006, helping to bring the program to children in underserved communities. Along with the Community Conservatory’s Program Director, she took the dormant program and evolved and expanded it to what it is today. Cindy was hired as the Conservatory’s Neighborhood Notes Program Coordinator in 2007. Under Cindy’s supervision, twenty-nine teens volunteer to mentor and teach hundreds of children each year in music, theater and visual art. In addition, teaching artists do workshops for residents in these communities in music, theater and visual art. Nine murals have been produced in Bristol Township through the Neighborhood Notes Program.

Cindy received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Exercise Physiology in 1983 from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Columbia University in New York City in 1987. She is also a Certified School Nurse.

She has worked as a volunteer for Art Goes to School since 2001, teaching art appreciation and art history to children in the Central Bucks School District. She was the Chapter Chairperson for Art Goes to School for four of those years. Cindy has taken art workshops/classes in drawing, pastels and oil painting from several local artists/teachers over the past several years and is an award-winning painter. In addition, she studies classical guitar.

She has furthered her training by completing two graduate level educational courses in teaching the arts to children. She feels privileged to be able to serve the community through the Neighborhood Notes.