Aurora Lee, M.B.A. heading up fundraising effort, building business infrastructure for active local nonprofit

(February 24, 2011) PRESCOTT, ARIZ. - Prescott-area non-profit Inventing Earth announces the hiring of its first Executive Director, Aurora Lee, M.B.A. Her new responsibilities include fundraising and managing grant submissions, as well as general organizational development. Her first tasks are to help expand the Board of Directors and to assist in fundraising for several operas currently under development.

Lee is also a Program Director at Arizona's Children Association. She graduated from Prescott College in 2004 and received her MBA at University of Arizona, Eller College of Management in 2010. In addition to her work at Arizona's Children Association she has worked with Affinity Seminars producing web-based education seminars on fundraising for nonprofits in the U.S. and Canada.

About Inventing Earth

Inventing Earth is an Arizona nonprofit founded in 2010 as an educational organization dedicated to expanding human understanding of creativity to include both art and science as individual, collective, and collaborative social, cultural, and artistic processes. The organization also develops tools and training on collaboration for performing artists and other creatives.

In its first year of operation (2010), Inventing Earth: presented a Spring Workshop Series on world, medieval, and alternative vocal techniques taught by Dr. Mary Larew; founded the Flying Body Choir that performed throughout the Prescott Area, including the Thumb Butte Festival, last fall; performed puppet ritual at a Lan Ting in honor of artist Kate Rinzler, also last fall; presented a vocal workshop at Prescott College on somatic-based singing; offered a reading of the libretto of The Greenest Branch opera about Hildegard von Bingen on the Feast of St. Hildegard in September; and presented a community Labyrinth of Stars walk accompanied by vocal music on the Solstice this past December.

Inventing Earth founders Mary Lin and Ben Sargent are working on their second commission, this time an opera in the "steampunk" style influenced by Mozart and Gilbert & Sullivan, which is scheduled for preview in the Boston area this coming September.

Inventing Earth's Articles of Incorporation were recently approved by the Arizona Corporation Commission. For more information, see http://inventingearth.org/.

Inventing Earth
Combining the wisdom of the past with the genius of the present to co-create the dream of the future