Our Dedicated Staff
Program Director & Co-Founder | Second Verse Choir
Anne Rigley
Anne’s career of service began with AmeriCorps after college and continues today, focused on serving older adults and people with disabilities. For more than 20 years she’s worked as an Activities Director, Social Worker, Long-Term Care Ombudsman, and Program Director, and currently serves as a Life Enrichment Specialist with Western Care Partners. Throughout her career she has witnessed the healing power of music—an insight that continues to shape her work.
In Anne’s ideal world life would unfold like a musical, with everyone knowing the lyrics and choreography. She performs with several bands and musical projects and finds deep joy singing with others. Music has been woven into her life since her earliest memories of her mother singing and rocking her.
Anne is also a lifelong dancer and teaches at Studio iBody in Denver. She is thrilled to be launching the Second Verse Choir, a project that brings together what she’s most passionate about: music, movement, and supporting older adults—especially those affected by memory loss.
Program Manager & Co-Founder | Second Verse Choir
Kris Boggs
Kris has dedicated her career to supporting vulnerable people, drawing on her background in adult and child protective services as well as her extensive experience interviewing witnesses to traumatic events with care and sensitivity.
Music has been a constant thread throughout Kris’s life. A lifelong cellist, she has spent decades playing, teaching students, and performing in a community orchestra. Her love of music runs deep, shaping both her personal and professional worlds.
Kris’s passion for connection and her background in dementia care come together in her newest endeavor: cofounding a dementia-friendly choir. This project brings together the things she cares about most—music, community, and creating meaningful experiences for people living with memory loss and their care partners.
Kris is excited to help build a welcoming space where participants can sing, share, and experience the joy and comfort that music so often brings.
Choral Director | Second Verse Choir
Dr. Jacqueline McCurdy
Dr. Jacqueline McCurdy is a classically trained singer and speech-language pathologist. She has portrayed leading operatic roles in Carmen, Così fan tutte, Patience, La clemenza di Tito, The Elixir of Love, Susannah, and La Calisto. Her varied forays in musical theater includes Rhetta Cupp in Pump Boys and Dinettes, Jessie Spano in The Saved by the Bell Show, and Fiona in Brigadoon. A prolific performer of concert repertoire, Dr. McCurdy has been a member of Tanglewood Festival Chorus, performing with Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops. She has performed under the baton of many famed conductors, including James Levine, Sir Colin Davis, and Rafael Frübeck de Burgos. Dr. McCurdy has been a featured soloist with the Master Chorale (Prescott, AZ), the Vintage Theatre Cabaret Series (CO), Field of Dreams Opera, the Athens Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Philharmonic Orchestra, the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra, the Ottumwa Symphony Orchestra, the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra, and the St. Ambrose University Symphony Orchestra. As part of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Dr. McCurdy sang on the Boston Pops recording, Oscar & Tony, Award-Winning Music from the Stage & Screen, with conductor Keith Lockhart. Dr. McCurdy is also a professional caroler with The Yuletide Carolers.
Dr. McCurdy’s conducting experience includes Children’s and Middle School Chorus at New England Conservatory’s Preparatory School, various churches, and as Musical Director for the Yuletide Carolers.
Jacqueline McCurdy earned her Bachelors of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Iowa, her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory of Music, her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Iowa, and her Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology at CU Boulder.
Board of Directors
Bruce Brewer - Chairperson | Second Verse Choir
Bruce spent a 38-year career in state government managing a developmental disability service system. Since his retirement he has served as a board president to an area aging agency, served on a council of aging, served on a board to a choral group, and has joyfully been in a caretaker role with his wife, who has early stage Alzheimer’s. He joins the board of Second Verse with excitement because he knows the joy music brings to persons with dementia and related memory loss.
Amy DelPo - Secretary | Second Verse Choir
Amy is the Manager of Adult Services at the Denver Public Library. She has been a librarian for over 17 years, and in that time she has developed a specialization in library programs and services for adults, older adults, people living with Alzheimer’s/dementia, and caregivers.
Amy came to dementia work through her parents, with whom she was very close. Her mother had Alzheimer’s Disease, and her father had Parkinson’s with dementia. She helped both of them live fully with dementia, and she cared for both of them until their deaths. She found the caregiving experience to be a complex mixture of challenges and grief and meaning and love.
Amy’s father was a lifelong musician and singer, and some of her earliest memories are sitting with him at the piano and singing while he played. She has carried that love of music through her life and is a member of several choirs.
Through her personal experiences and her work, Amy has come to believe passionately that people with dementia can lead lives filled with joy, meaning, connection, love, learning, and growth – if they are given opportunities to do so. She is thrilled to be part of an organization that brings the joy of music and singing to the dementia community.
Steve Anton - Treasurer | Second Verse Choir
Serving others is an important part of Steve’s life. He’s been a director on several non-profit boards for organizations focused on people’s mental, physical or spiritual needs and spent ten years within Colorado government leading teams providing support and rehabilitation services to people with disabilities. Prior to his career in the public sector, Steve worked many years in the private sector as an executive in manufacturing and technology companies. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from Purdue University and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Indiana University.