Meet our board

Board of directors

dedicate time and energy to diversifying our donor options and fundraising for the organization

Stacie Wylie

Board Chair

Stacie Wylie has a long history of service and community involvement and was recognized in the 2025 Arizona’s Cardinals Community Spotlight program for being a local changemaker and influential leader. Prior to her career in the insurance industry, she worked as a high school English teacher and coached the Academic Decathlon team at Desert Ridge High School. In the past 17 years in the insurance industry, she has served customers through her service in claims, quality assurance, tech support, and corporate responsibility. She currently works as a Corporate Responsibility Analyst where she reviews grant requests from non-profit organizations and organizes volunteer and community events. She also serves as the Events Coordinator and Phoenix Area Ambassador for the Advocacy for Disabilities and Education Business Resource Group (ADE BRG) at State Farm. A lifelong learner with a passion for education, Stacie holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Education with minors in music and studio arts, an MBA with an emphasis in Accounting, certificates in Data Analytics and Developmental Disabilities, and several insurance designations, including the CPCU, CLU, ChSNC, and FLMI. In her free time, Stacie loves spending time with her family and reading. Her son, Liam, has a dual diagnosis of Down syndrome and Autism—you will frequently find them breaking stigmas, achieving new milestones, and living their best life at GiGi’s Playhouse, Higher Octave Healing, DSNetwork, Arizona Adaptive Water Sports, Special Olympics, and Miracle League.

Mark Springsteel

Treasurer

Mark Springsteel is the Principal of Springsteel Investment Advisors located in Phoenix, AZ. Mark established his practice in 2012 after a 15-year career in banking, corporate finance and as Treasurer and Director of Financial Services for AAA Arizona. He works in partnership with his wife Rachel who is the Principal of Springsteel PC, a CPA firm, located in the same offices. Mark holds the designations of CPA, CFP and PFS and, when he is not counting beans, enjoys woodworking and spending time with his family fishing, camping and traveling.

John Doller

Secretary

John is a professional civil engineer who specializes in the planning, design, and construction of water and wastewater treatment facilities. He retired in 2020 as a principal and National Director of Project Delivery with the national consulting firm Carollo Engineers, Inc.

John is also a percussionist/drummer. He has been involved in a wide variety of musical organizations from symphony orchestras to marching bands and drum corps. From jazz bands and pit orchestras, to “wedding bands” and church praise bands, John has always kept active in music performance.

John has also used his musical skills as an educator. He taught marching percussion for six years at Barry Goldwater High School in Phoenix. During that time, he was also a percussion adjudicator for many Phoenix area marching band competitions.

In his remaining free time, John enjoys spending it with his wife, raising his four children, boxing, and competitive target shooting.

Kay Norton

Director

Kay Norton is Professor of Musicology in the ASU School of Music, part of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. She just completed a 4-year term as Vice President of the Society for American Music. Norton teaches courses on musical research and the history of music, as well as on what music means in the contexts of wellness, gender, and community. Her publications examine the wellness benefits of music, American sacred music (most recently, African American gospel), and music of the American South.

Katie Griffith

Director

Katie has been involved with Higher Octave Healing for over ten years as a client. She is also a member of the new rock band music therapy program through Higher Octave Healing. Her favorite instrument to play is the drums. Outside of music therapy, Katie is an active member of many self-advocacy groups including President of People First of Arizona and inspire Inc., where she is the Vice President and Chair of Membership Development. inspire is a member-run provider agency through the Division of Developmental Disabilities. Katie is also the 2016 Miss Wheelchair Arizona and and her platform is to actively encourage and engage youth leadership through advocacy and education. She is also part of the community service project Miss Sparkles Arizona 2017 and she loves to make a difference in anyway possible, including being a new member of the board of Higher Octave Healing. She is so happy to give back to an organization that has and continues to do so much for her

Lauren Dill

Director

Lauren Dill is a speech-language pathologist who is deeply passionate about serving the disability community. She provides in-home therapy services to individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities, with a strong focus on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and building meaningful community connections.

Lauren previously served as the Communication Specialist at ALS Arizona, where she helped individuals with ALS and their families access AAC to maintain autonomy and quality of life. She also worked with WorkAbility Tucson delivering Pre-Employment Transition Services to high school students with disabilities and supported front-desk operations at the University of Arizona’s Disability Resource Center.

Lauren’s connection to the disability community is also deeply personal. Her older brother, Adam, is Autistic and has relied on community-based services throughout his childhood and into adulthood, including receiving music therapy at Higher Octave Healing as a child.

Karey Rodeffer

Director