Meet Our Staff

Pat Sanger, A.P.R.N.,
Executive Director and Founder

Pat is the creator and founder of Arts-Kids. The inspiration for the program evolved from her work as a psychotherapist with children in the inner city of Norfolk, Virginia. Ms. Sanger is an Advanced Practice Psychiatric-Mental Health Registered Nurse, Child and Adolescent Specialist and has a long history of working with both community health and mental health agencies. Ms. Sanger has been in private practice for more than 20 years specializing in the treatment of children, adolescents, and families.

Through her work she noticed that children growing up in traumatic environments (home and/or community) began to become hardened and emotionally shut down by age 9 or 10. Parents were often too burned-out from the efforts to survive and provide for their family, leaving no energy to support their children on an emotional/spiritual level. From these experiences, the inspiration for the Arts-Kids program evolved. She currently serves as both Executive Director and Program Director for both the core program and the pilot project on the Ute Reservation.

Jennifer Prochazka
Program Manager

Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design from Georgia State University with a secondary emphasis in jewelry and metals. She earned her masters in transformative Arts from John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, California in 2008 with an emphasis in expressive arts workshops for various populations including at risk youth, homeless women, and community art center collaborations.

“Transformative art processes are tools for discovering the self more deeply,” she says, “and they are vehicles for extending these inner connections to manifest change and healing within our selves and community.” Jennifer is an artist who works in metals and jewelry.

Lola Beatlebrox
Curriculum Development and Communications Consultant

Lola Beatlebrox, curriculum development and communications consultant, began her career in corporate education with Xerox Learning Systems. She has designed and written training programs for the American Stock Exchange, the New York Mercantile Exchange, Oxford Health Plans and IBM. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she now specializes in curriculum, development, and publicity for nonprofits. Her client list includes the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Utah Arts Council, Thanksgiving Point Institute, the Park City Museum, the Summit County Historical Society, and the Historic Park City Association.