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Sandy Nadeau
Executive Director
As full-time Executive Director, Sandy Nadeau is responsible for daily operations, communications, public relations, ticket sales, grant writing and other fund-raising activities. In addition, she serves as the communication link between the Orchestra and the Board. Nadeau joined the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra in 2001. Involved with music her entire life, she remembers sitting on the organ bench as a little girl and watching her grandmother play for church services. In middle school, high school and college she played the flute and the bassoon. She performed a number of solos with her high school concert band on the bassoon. Later, she sat on the organ bench again and watched her daughter play for church services while she sang in the church choir. She learned to love music from her grandmother, her father (who played trombone in the community band for his whole adult life) and her daughter.
Nadeau has been a leader in the non-profit sector for over 14 years. She began her career in non-profit work with Evergreen Retirement Community in Wisconsin as the Resident Counselor for the independent living areas in addition to managing an Alzheimer's support group for North Central Wisconsin. Nadeau directed the Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse for the Boys and Girls Club of Oshkosh for three years. During this time she conducted a Parent-Aide program, taught parenting classes in the community and in the state prison, and assisted in the development of a Health Baby program. Nadeau also served as the Executive Director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving for the State of Wisconsin and worked with legislators to lower the legal alcohol limit to 0.08.
After a move to Colorado in 1997, Nadeau was the Executive Director of Development for St. Clair of Assisi. She raised funds to build a day care center, a housing project, and a school for low-income families in the mountains near Vail. She also served as the Director of Development for The Youth Foundation, an organization that did programming for low-income youth in Eagle County.
Nadeau holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Master of Science in Education from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Both degrees were bestowed summa cum laude. She lives in Sauk Rapids with her husband, Joe, who is the Training Manager for a large financial institution in the Twin Cities. Together, they share their home with Tres the cat.
