Beginning her work with individuals with disabilities in 1988 as an
Aquatics Instructor and Special Olympics Coach at Handicap Village in Clear
Lake, Iowa, Nina has a long list of experience working with children and
persons with special needs. She has been an arts instructor of puppet workshops
at the MacNider Museum in Mason City, an acting teacher and puppeteer for
Strebbens Children's Theater and was awarded the Emma Louise Warfield Scholarship
by the Puppeteers of America. Nina organized and directed a special performance
of The Nutcracker Ballet with Puppets for Iowa Governor Branstad.
She is currently the program Director for Puppets for Prevention for the
American Cancer Society, Iowa chapter.
