About Claire Candelori

Claire Candelori is an accomplished Industrial Engineer with a passion for continuous improvement and business process optimization. She has worked for multiple Fortune 500 companies including Pratt & Whitney, Corning Incorporated and Navy Federal Credit Union in the areas of manufacturing, supply chain and finance. Claire is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and works as Continuous Improvement Engineer and at Saint-Gobain, the world’s largest building materials company. 

Claire is a proud RIT Tiger. She graduated in 2020 with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from KGCOE and again in 2021 with her MBA with a concentration in Supply Chain Management from SCB. 

Her love for dance and performing started at the age of four when her dance education began at the Griffith Academy of Dance in Wethersfield, CT. She has trained for fourteen years in the areas of Irish Step, Ballet, Tap and Jazz. She was a student teacher for her last six years there, sharing her love of dance and mentoring the next generation of dancers. Claire has been an Open Champion competitive Irish Step dancer since the age of thirteen. She is a seven-time New England Oireachtas regional qualifier, top ten New England Oireachtas region placement finisher, two-time New England Oireachtas Open Championship recall medalist and a two-time North American Irish Dance Championship qualifier. In addition, Claire was a member of the Griffith Celtic Dance Company, a prestigious program for the top dancers within the Academy. 

 At RIT, Claire continued her passion for dance as a performing team member, and former Vice President of Vis Viva Dance Company. She choreographed for the Brick City Singers ICCA tournament set in 2018. Claire was also a choreographer and featured soloist for the RIT NTID Dance Company and performed in Seasons (2015) and Dance Tales: Stories of the World (2016) under the direction of Thomas Warfield. 

 Most notably, Claire worked as the Assistant to the Director of Dance within the NTID Department of Performing Arts. She mentored the first generations of Performing Arts Scholars, created engagement activities and events for dancers and developed the foundation of the Dance Minor and Immersion, which are now being offered through NTID’s Department of Performing Arts. Her goal is to help students who have a passion for both technology and the performing arts pursue both during their time at RIT and NTID.