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Amy Shake Ortiz is a synthesizer, problem solver, and storyteller who has spent her career implementing creative and efficient communications solutions. She has over a decade of experience in career growth & counseling for creatives, as well as mission-driven development strategy for non-profits, small businesses, and individuals aiming to make a difference.
Amy studied Vocal Performance at SUNY Fredonia School of Music, where she subsequently served as Adjunct Instructor of Voice and maintained a private voice studio. As a performer, this “steel-clad soprano” has been noted as, “an effervescent delight” with “a great deal of subtlety…in communication of text.” However she began her music studies as an instrumentalist, studying multiple brass and woodwind instruments from elementary school into college. Amy spent time in high school playing French horn with the ESYO Wind Symphony, and she is very excited to come back to join the CHIME team two decades later to help it continue to grow and foster a new generation of young musicians.
Amy currently lives in Troy where she enjoys reading, gardening, foraging, walking and hiking with her dogs, and building her holistic health and herbalism brand: Dandelion Collaborative.
