SETC Executive Director Betsey Horth received the 2012 Gold Medallion Award from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), Region IV. That same year she delivered the commencement speech to the Florida School of the Arts. Prior to joining SETC in 1999, Betsey taught costuming at Buffalo State College and worked in marketing and development for professional theatres in Wisconsin and in Buffalo, New York. She has performed as a commercial/film actress and produced her own play Joan of Arc: Alive! As a creativity specialist, she holds a MS in Creativity and continues to design, present and train groups in creativity skills, leadership development and creative problem solving techniques. She has co-designed and trained for the Center for Creative Leadership's Leading Creatively Program in Greensboro, North Carolina, presented to the Dupont Corporation, Singapore Institute of Management and Hewlett Packard among others. She has been a Leader at the Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo, New York, for five consecutive years, a Keynote Speaker for the Quebec International Creativity and Innovation Networking conference (ICINC), and a presenter for several Annual South African Creativity Conferences.