Staff
Becky Bell
Artistic & Executive Director
Becky Bell was appointed Artistic & Executive Director in August 2008. Prior to joining Rosie’s House: A Music Academy for Children, Bell oversaw the Phoenix Symphony’s Education & Community Engagement Department. In this capacity, she managed music education and community programs that served 80,000 children and adults annually. In addition to developing educational concerts, Bell managed two after school programs that provided underserved youth in South Phoenix and on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community with private music instruction.
With a background in non-profit management and education, Bell believes passionately in the power of education to positively impact the community. Her non-profit management experience includes budget administration, operations, and strategic planning with The Phoenix Symphony, Arizona State University School of Music and the Lake Forest Symphony. As a musician, Bell enjoys playing piano and horn and actively volunteers for the Phoenix Creative Music Movement, Downtown Chamber Series, Phoenix Chorale, AZ Musicfest Scholarship Committee and The Junior League of Phoenix. Her greatest joy is watching a child immersed in concentration and wonderment as they learn to perform on a musical instrument.
To contact Becky Bell, email executivedirector@rosieshouse.org
Dalia Mancillas
Business Manager
Dalia Mancillas has been employed with Rosie's House since 1999. Her office managerial skills include bookkeeping and payroll, volunteer oversight, event planning and acting as a translator for the organization. Dalia has been a key staff member in the academy’s growth and development over the past 10 years. She enjoys playing an active role in changing the lives of Phoenix-area youth through helping to provide them with a positive after school activity.
Julia Cannon
Program Manager
Julia Cannon recently joined Rosie’s House: A Music Academy for Children, but has long been an advocate for arts education. Starting at a young age in North Carolina, she learned to play piano before venturing into vocal performance. After earning her BFA in Theatre and BA in Spanish from Millikin University, she spent two years in the Peace Corps in Mongolia. She worked to bring Mongolian students the joy and unique lessons of art through her English curricula, music performances, and theatre and music class for orphans. Since returning to the US, Julia has worked with underserved students across the valley to help them achieve their dreams by realizing their full potential. She most recently served as Program Manager for Arizona Quest for Kids, and is very excited to be working with an organization that provides students the opportunity to explore and discover the many benefits music has to offer.
Anne C. White, Ph.D., CFRE
Development Consultant
A life-long passion for the arts including classical music, theater and dance was learned early in life when Anne’s father took her to the Metropolitan Opera every season beginning when she was five years old. As a native New Yorker, Anne attended Barnard College and Columbia University where she earned her Ph.D. in Psychology. Her work has focused on marketing and development and she has held senior management positions with organizations such as Planned Parenthood Federation of America, YWCA of the USA, and Special Olympics International. The American Cancer Society invited her to join them in Phoenix in the fall of 1994, where she became Vice President of the newly formed Southwest Division. Following her lifelong love of the arts, she became Vice President of Development for the Scottsdale Cultural Council working with the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Anne reopened her consulting firm in 2006, and is currently working with the Phoenix Boys Choir, Arizona Musicfest, Phoenix Chamber Music Society and as the part-time Director of Development for Rosie’s House. A former adjunct professor at five universities in the New York City area, Anne is a volunteer and served as Board and committee members of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Planned Giving Roundtable, and the Arizona Pain Initiative.