Board of Directors

USPPA - PPG 1 & 2 Foot Launch 

USPPA - PPG 1 & 2 Wheel Launch

USPPA Competition Committee Co-Chair

ASC - PPG BFI 

APPI - P2

Baz is a powered paragliding pilot with a passion for learning and adventures.  In her role on the Board of Directors of Aurora PPG as Vice President of Strategy, Ghada shares her experience as a management consultant and instructor, focusing on strategy and project management.  Having grown up in Eqypt in a family of aviators, she is determined to help create a community for female pilots where they can feel empowered and independent.

USPPA - PPG 1, 2, & 3 Foot Launch

USHPA - P3

Maria Blandin grew up on the coast of south Texas. She currently resides in Louisiana with her pup Lyla. She has a passion for aviation and adventures. With a 10 year history in the health/dental field Maria now enjoys being a flight attendant. She has been blessed to travel all around the world pursuing her love of powered paragliding and paragliding.

Nurturing a high-drive personal nature,  Maria experiences a healthy and active lifestyle weather that be in the gym, yoga, cycling or long walks with her pup.

With high energy and a motivational style of leadership Maria loves to empower and inspire women through aviation. 

USPPA - PPG 1 & 2 Foot Launch

Susan Ray is an outdoor enthusiast that currently resides in Wake Forest, NC with her husband Kevin. Together they have four children and two grandchildren.

Susan was born and raised in Minnesota. She graduated from Augsburg College (now  University) in Minneapolis, MN.    It was at Augsburg that she began her 25 year long career in higher education administration.  The majority of her years were at Duke University, which she left in the Fall of 2020.

Since then she has been focusing on her health, learning to fly, Onewheel riding, and ways to help others spread their wings.   

USPPA - PPG 1 & 2 Foot Launch

USPPA - PPG 1 & 2 Wheel Launch 

ASC - PPG BFI

Wendy Weaver grew up in Alaska, where she met her husband, Justin. They’ve been married

now for 29 years in November. She moved to Pennsylvania after having her daughter Taylor,

who has joined Wendy at Weaver Wireless Consultants LLC.

Wendy first worked at Verizon Wireless for 16 years and helped the company start a division

that taught customers how to use their services better. When they bought AOL in 2015, Verizon

downsized and Wendy’s department was let go. Wendy was determined to use the knowledge and skills she had to move forward with starting her own company. Weaver Wireless Consultants LLC started in April 2017, to continue helping people. She began in her home town of Williamsport, PA and began to grow quickly, needing to hire Alisha McKinley in 2018 to help her grow. She then went to a second location, working in The Villages, Florida.

She has a strong work ethic and believes in helping her customers get what they need. Wendy is dedicated to helping the communities that she lives in and participates in many community services. Currently, Wendy is involved in the following groups:

• Member – Montoursville, PA Rotary

• Member – The Villages, Florida Rotary

• Member – RVSPG (River Valley Senior Providers Group)

• Member – Women’s Business Luncheon

• Member – Williamsport-Lycoming, PA Chamber

• Member – Milton, PA Chamber

• Vice Chair – The BalloonFest Air Show & So Much More in Williamsport, PA

• Board Member – Aurora PPG

In 2018, Wendy received The Emerging Business Award.

In March of 2021 Wendy completed PPG training with Aviator in Lake Wales, Florida. Wendy loves flying her Flash Cruiser Moster 185 Trike - she learned foot launching her equipment but chooses and prefers to fly her trike set up due to having had lower L4 & L5 back surgery several years back.