Bernice is a journalist, international lecturer, and co-author of an award-winning public communication book for nurses, From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public. She has been exercising at Village Fitness since 1990 and credits the classes there with keeping her in tip-top shape.

Marjorie grew up in Cambridge, graduated from UMass Amherst, and received a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She has also volunteered with Teach for America, worked for Congresswoman Pat Schroeder and State Representative Alice Wolf, and been the Director of the Equal Justice Coalition. Currently, Marjorie is serving her 4th term on the Cambridge City Council. She has been honored by the Greater Boston Labor Council and was the youngest woman inducted to the Boston YWCA's Academy of Women Achievers for her work on affordable housing and advocacy for racial and economic justice. Marjorie was also a member of the Cambridge Peace Commission and served on the board of the Cambridge Anti-Poverty Agency. She juggles her active public life with her equally active family life. And she is an avid tango dancer.

Stephanie is a member of the over-55 exercising group.
She has been a dancer for 30 years and an exerciser for seven years. She is a long time devote of adult education. She was a student in Cambridge Center for Adult Education Exercise Studio in 2003. She was later hired as its manager. When Village Fitness was formed, Stephanie became the executive director. She currently serves as both executive director and president of the board.

In her other lives, Stephanie was a public school art teacher in Virginia, a painter in a Manhattan loft, a computer programmer and business manager.

Stephanie loves dance – English morris dance and country dance, Argentine Tango, New England contra dance, Caribbean salsa, and a little American ballroom dance. And she has been known to listen to Bluegrass music.

In her youth Nina Mayer studied modern dance with Marjorie Mazia, Paul Sanasardo and Pearl Lang. She transcended the impulse to be a dancer and choreographer at graduate school in Berkeley where, after a foray into graduate work, she earned her MBA. Her professional life has focused on development, most notably at Tufts and the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. She volunteers at the MFA, and comes to Village Fitness from Newton for its quality and welcome. “After not being in shape for too long, the people at Village Fitness have made it easy for me to exercise in ways that are physically challenging and emotionally supportive. I look forward to spending the next thirty years or so doing what I can at Village Fitness”

Barbara is a Staff Nurse in Critical Car at Lahey Medical Center. She is also a an Assistant Clinical Professor at Regis College of Nursing. Currently, Barbara is involved
in the Project for Professional Development for nurses at CRUDEM in Milot, Haiti. She is also a member of the Merrimack Valley Medical Reserve Corp and a volunteer with Massachusetts System for Advance Registration.
She has been a member of the medical crew at the Breast Cancer 3-Day Event, as well as a youth group advisor and coordinator. In her copious spare time, Barbara enjoys dancing with Muddy River Morris dancers.

Nina began dancing at the age of six. She continued ballet dancing through high school, spent one year at a Pittsburgh dance college, and moved to New York City. There she studied ballet, jazz and modern dance. She was a scholarship student at the Alvin Ailey School, danced with Luigi’s Jazz Dance Company, and studied modern dance with Murray Jonis and Alwin Nikolais.

In 1981, Nina moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and began teaching at the Sporer Studio and later at Le Pli Health Spa. After leaving to raise a family, she continue
to teach dance and exercise in Cambridge.