Meet Your Scranton JCC Fitness Instructors and Personal Trainers

Jo Ackers
Jo Ackers
AFAA certified instructor for over 30 years, Jo’s classes include pilates yoga stretch, cardio, weights, cycling, senior classes, Chronic disease, Parkinson’s cycling, and various youth programs.
Pat Barnes
Pat Barnes
Pat has over 25 years of experience in the fitness industry. In addition to being an American Council Of Exercise (ACE )group exercise instructor, Pat is also a Personal Trainer at the JCC. Pat leads our Silver Sneakers classes which are for those age 65 and older. And she is currently taking new personal training clients.
Jessica Johnson (JJ)
Jessica Johnson (JJ)
Jessica cares deeply about her clients and helping them on their journey to being happy, confident, and strong. Since 2010 Jessica has been teaching professionally and invites all fitness levels to participate in her classes including Strength Training, Strong, Floatfit, Aqua Zumba, and Log Rolling. She also is a NASM CPT and nutritional coach.
Mindy Van Fleet
Mindy Van Fleet
Mindy has been a Certified Afaa instructor at the JCC for over 23 years. She is also the JCC Facilities Director. She leads many of our county-funded senior classes for those age 60 and over, including Are Barre Yoga, Senior Yoga, Silver and Fit, Silver Sneakers, and Zumba Gold.
Carli Kalinoski
Carli Kalinoski
Chavy Schwartz
Chavy Schwartz
Chavy teaches Dancercise class at the Scranton JCC! Her passions include dancing, being active, and living a healthy lifestyle. Dancercise is an hour of high-energy exercise, but most of all, it’s a lot of fun!