Board of Directors
Cindy Bandel, President
Retired Senior Project Engineer, The Aerospace Corporation
Mimi Yu, Vice-President
Retired Professor, University of Southern California
Dee Menzies, Vice-President
Educator
Director, First United Methodist Church Preschool
Retired Head of School, Carlthorp School, Santa Monica
Raymond Knapp, Treasurer
Distinguished Professor of Musicology
Director of UCLA’s Center for Musical Humanities
George Collins
Attorney, Law Offices of George W. Collins
Patricia Johnston
Music Educator, Musician
Roger Kalia
Conductor and Music Director
Maggie Kharrazi
Attorney, Kharrazi & Associates
Lisa Kohorn
Physician and Musician
Ali Mogharei
Dentist, Santa Monica
Fred Scholder
Retired Founder & CEO
ARIES Prepared Beef Co.
Smokehouse Pet Products
Advisory Board
Pierluigi Bonvicini
Architect
Henry Gronnier
Musician, Faculty and Chair
of Community School String Department,
Colburn School
Junko Hara
Senior Program Manager Hoag Memorial Hospital
Richard Kaufman
Musician, Conductor of Pacific Symphony Pops concert
Dennis White
Retired Chairman, White & Company Insurance Inc.
Administration & Staff
Cindy Bandel, Interim Executive Director
Lisa Kohorn, Educational Outreach
Helen Houldsworth, Community Relations
Operations Manager, University of California Los Angeles
Thomas Kang, Information Technology
Senior Software Engineer, Google