Creating Smiles, Improving Lives

Dee Dee Ritzinger

Chair
Founder of A3 Creative Inc.

Dee Dee was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, and grew up living in many places as her father was a flight surgeon in the Air Force. She went to Texas State University for design and communications and holds a marketing certification from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Dee Dee was the founder and CEO of A3 Creative Inc. from 1996 -2019. She launched her consulting practice in April 2019, helping people across the globe with health and well-being, as well as personal and business matters.

Dee Dee understands that her purpose and passion are to help people. At the age of 16, she volunteered for Amigos de las Américas. She was placed with one other young woman in the remote village of La Masica, Honduras, where she vaccinated locals there and in nearby villages for Diphtheria Pertussis Tetanus (DPT). She saw many diseases that were fatal or debilitating for young children and adults.

Dee Dee was recruited by Forest Cook to join the Austin Smiles Board of Directors in 2009 and became Vice-Chair in 2015. She has been in the operating rooms of missions and has seen the dedication and professionalism of our medical team experienced in the process of transforming the lives of cleft-lip palate patients.