Richard has been practicing and teaching massage for over 23 years.  He has worked on 1995 Olympic athletes, professional volleyball players and has done significant amounts of massage in corporate settings.  He has over 20 years of Education including a Finance degree and  a masters degree in management. Richard graduated from Blue Cliff in 1994 and has opened up and managed 5 currently unaffiliated Blue Cliff Colleges.  He is currently the Campus Director and President.  He always starts his classes off with lively music (often 80’s), he has no rhythm, and tries to stump his students with “funny” riddles.

Fonda brings to Blue Cliff a vibrant positive enthusiasm which is quite contagious.  She works in Financial Aid, teaches massage therapy and Health & Nutrition.  She is a 2002 Blue Cliff graduate and has been practicing and teaching massage students for over 14 years.  She was educated in Greece, Saudi Arabia, and Alabama. She is such an inspiring instructor that it is not uncommon for her students to want more and more of her teaching and to want to train through breaks and past dismissal time.

Sarah has helped students at Blue Cliff since October of 2009.  She has has worked in customer service, banking, and insurance industries for many years.  She also studied business and education at the University of South Alabama. Since coming to Blue Cliff she has worked as a receptionist, in Student Services, Job Placement, and finally in Financial Aid.  She is the primary manager of the Financial Aid Office and she enjoys helping people get the right funding for the education they’re pursuing.  She has a true gift at producing regulatory documents and sophisticated excel spreadsheets.  Quickbooks is also one of her close friends.  She handles numbers with a smile.

Paula Jones is a passionate, hard working instructor teaching students real world techniques & knowledge she gets from her own private salon.  Paula has  been a cosmetologist for 30 years. She maintain a comprehensive understanding of the hair care industry and business operations. She is an ambitious, hardworking, knowledgeable, highly skilled, team spirited, and self motivated instructor and entrepreneur  Ms. Paula owns Paula’s Hair Unlimited and she has been an instructor for Blue Cliff Career College for several years. Ms. Paula won the Eagle award from the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce in 2007. She also won the Minority Business Woman Award and was on the advisory board for the Black Student Union at University of South Alabama.