Nancy Joaquim is a native of Boston, Massachusetts and a graduate of Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.  She is recipient of Boston University’s Distinguished Alumni Award, as well as Northwood University’s Distinguished Women’s Award.  Author, concert singer, and arts educator, the diversity of her professional and public life is distinguished by its devotion to the arts and letters.  She is the author of SOPHIA SCHLIEMANN, A Woman Discovers Mycenae, published in Munich in 1994 and introduced at the Frankfurt Bookfair.  Most recently, she has published SOPHIA, A Woman’s Search for Troy, an historical novel based on the true life experiences of Sophia Schliemann, wife and collaborator of the father of modern-day archaeology, Heinrich Schliemann.

Ms. Joaquim has served on grant review panels at the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., and in 1984, President Ronald Reagan appointed her to serve on the National Advisory Council on Adult Education whose charge was National Adult Literacy.

She has pursued successful careers as a concert singer and music educator and has made numerous concert and television appearances in both areas.  She created and authored the Listen and Learn Curriculum Plans which were designed as community enrichment programs in music and the comparative arts for all age groups.  A number of these programs were implemented in public and private schools across America.  She has also written columns on the arts for community newspapers.  Book signings and talks on Sophia and Heinrich Schliemann have recently taken place at The Harvard Coop, Harvard University; Barnes and Noble at Boston University; The Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, Arizona; and Changing Hands, Tempe, Arizona.  Locally, Ms. Joaquim has also appeared as featured speaker for The English Speaking Union and later in April will speak to The French Heritage Society and Spirit of the Senses Salon.

In March, 2008, Nancy and Richard Joaquim will be awarded the Medallion of Merit in recognition of their lifetime achievement in the arts by the National Society of Arts and Letters.  The ceremony will take place at the Tempe Center for the Arts.  There has only been one other time the NSAL has awarded the Medallion to a couple and that was to Will and Ariel Durant.

Current and former affiliations include:
Board of Trustees:  Phoenix Art Museum
The Library Council, Museum of Modern Art, New York;
The Senator Margaret Chase Smith Panel for Current Studies, Northwood University;
Board of Trustees: Arizona Opera Company;
Board of Trustees: The Scottsdale Artists School;
Advisory Board: Boston University College of Fine Arts;
Emmanuel College, Boston, Massachusetts;
Newton, Massachusetts Public Schools: Music Consultant;
Docent Coordinator: Young Peoples Concerts: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
  Arts, Washington, D.C.;
The American Society of the Order of Saint John.

Since 1976, Ms. Joaquim has made her home in Arizona with her husband, Richard R. Joaquim, President and Founder of International Conference Resorts and Monarch International Conference Resort Development.