Mary McGuire
Director of Communications
Michigan Fitness Foundation
Mary McGuire has had an extensive career across the humanities and developed an interdisciplinary skill set born from each position she has held over the years. She has applied her humanities background to her communications work with Michigan Fitness Foundation, and in previous positions with Michigan Trails & Greenways Alliance, Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau, Harvard University Art Museums, Golden Door Gallery of Far East Asian, Oceanic, and African Art, as an EcoTourism Consultant for Shiga Prefecture, Japan, and as a touring singer songwriter and classical musician.
While performing as a musician and through working in art museums and galleries, she traveled extensively throughout North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. From this, Mary developed a deep concern for the arts and how they express community. She has performed benefits for Wheels for Meals to support Detroit’s unhoused community and My Sister’s Place to support victims of adult domestic violence. As a guitar instructor, she volunteered for the Bonnie Raitt Guitar Program and taught guitar to scores of teenage girls from economically disadvantaged families at the local Boys & Girls Club on Martha’s Vineyard nearly a decade. As a humanist, she is interested in the past, present, and future expressed by the people that inform the art, architecture, landscape, literature, and music that gives each community its history of place.
She is a big fan of communications and technology and how they can be used together to create and communicate. McGuire recently received her Certificate in Digital Marketing Analytics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and Certificate in Social Marketing from the International Social Marketing Association.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in Humanities with a concentration in History of Art and Architecture and a minor in Environmental Management from Harvard University with honors, studied Native American Studies and Native American Spirituality at Bay Mills Community College, and Music Theory and Composition at Michigan State University.
She is a proud alumnus of the MSU Spartan Marching Band (trombone), has received multiple Detroit Music Awards, most recently for Outstanding Americana Songwriter, and is a big supporter and advocate for adopting adorable pets from animal shelters and rescue organizations.
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