Co-founder and COO of Minding Motion for Graceful Aging, and the Founder and Co-director of GREY MATTERS: Dance for Parkinson’s- Utah, the first program of its kind in the State, Juan Carlos has been teaching dance and creative movement to all ages for over twenty years. Juan Carlos obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Utah, Department of Modern Dance, where he also later held the position of Assistant Professor from 2009-2016. He serves as an Adjunct Faculty at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. He holds a Creative Arts and Aging Teaching Artist Certification from the National Center for Creative Aging, Basic Life Support Certification from the American Heart Association and The Basics from the Alzheimer’s Association which include: Memory Loss, Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, Effective Communication Strategies and Understanding and Responding to Dementia Related Behavior and The Many Faces of Dementia.