Dalia Rawson, Treasurer of METI International, is Executive Director of the New Ballet School Downtown San Jose. From 1991 to 2006, Rawson performed a wide variety of leading roles as a dancer with Ballet San Jose. She began teaching at Ballet San Jose School in 2000 and was named School Ballet Mistress in 2007, School Principal in 2012, Trainee Program Director in 2013, and School Director in 2014. In 2011, Rawson was awarded a Fellowship from the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of New York City Ballet. Rawson is an American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT Teacher Training Intensive in Primary through Level 7 of the ABT National Training Curriculum (NTC). She is a member of the ABT NTC Board of Examiners and the Coordinator of the American Ballet Theatre Young Dancer Summer Workshop held annually in San Jose.