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AMANDA JORIS
Executive Director/Certified Riding Instructor
I am very pleased to announce that Sunrise
has hired Amanda Joris to be our new Executive Director and Professional
Riding Instructor. Amanda is energetic, passionate about horses,
and about working with them to help both disabled children and adults gain
self-confidence, strength, balance, coordination and social skills in the
process of developing horsemanship skills.
Born in Muncie, Indiana Amanda became interested in horses when she was a young child and cannot remember a time when she was not riding. She began taking therapeutic riding lessons at Whispering Pines near Muncie when she was 12 years old, and graduated from that program in 2001. When she was 16 she became the proud owner of her horse, Phoenix. Phoenix is currently living on her mother's small farm.
After graduating from Monroe Central High School in Parker City, Amanda attended St. Mary of the Woods College where in addition to her studies, she served as President of the Psychology Club and as a volunteer for the St. Mary of the Woods Therapeutic Riding Program. Amanda graduated last May with a BS, majoring in Psychology and with a minor in Equestrian Studies. Following graduation she has been working at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Winchester and has been serving as Vice President of the Rescue Me RCHS Animal Rescue in Farmland.
Amanda is in the process of moving to Richmond. As our new director and riding instructor she looks forward to getting to know our 12 Sunrise horses and to working with our volunteers to get them into top physical condition while she works on obtaining her NARHA Professional Riding Instructor Certification. As soon as she is certified, Sunrise will officially reopen for riding lessons.
If you would like to be a volunteer, or sign up on our waiting list for riding lessons, you can reach her by calling the Sunrise office at (765)935-4291 Monday - Friday from 9am to 12pm.
Daryl Greene
President, Sunrise Board
Our Mission
Sunrise, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation whose
purpose is to promote the health and social development of physically,
mentally, and socially disabled people through therapeutic horseback riding.
Celebrating 30 years!