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Board of Directors

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Laura Porter

Co-Founder &

Executive Director

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Radhika Fliegel

Co-Founder &
Chief Operating Officer

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David C. Hemann

Director
 

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Gail Draper

Director

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Darlene Fountaine

Director

Our Staff

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Eli Slavkin

Director of Global Initiatives

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Jessica Rauch

Arts Education Community Liason

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Deborah McCoy

Program Coordinator

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Our Teachers

Our teachers are knowledgeable, passionate, talented, and go the extra mile to engage with every single student. Our teachers hold degrees, and oftentimes advanced degrees, in arts education.

We take the safety of our students and community seriously. In addition to going through a rigorous interview process, we also perform/require:

  • Background checks

  • Live Scan fingerprinting

  • Adherence to the CDC’s Covid-19 mandates and recommendations

  • Extensive shadowing and training with the Executive Director

  • Partner assessments, which include reviewing feedback from classroom teachers, administrators, and families

Want to teach for Bloom? Reach out on our contact page.

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Teacher Natalia

Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, Teacher Natalia speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese. In addition to being a professional vocalist, guitarist, percussionist, songwriter and educator, she is also a Latin Grammy nominee!​

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Teacher Emilia

Teacher Emilia is an Ecuadorian multi percussionist, composer, and arts educator. Throughout her career, she has worked to educate, expand and develop the audience for Latin American music, most recently helping produce numerous concerts and events, including the CalArts World Music and Dance Festivals 2018 and 2019 and CalArts LatinFest 2018 and 2019.

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Teacher Abby

Teacher Abby is a harp player, composer, songwriter & producer who grew up playing Folk music from all over the world. In addition to performing with her solo project around the US, she has performed with many other contemporary projects and LA-based experimental bands.​

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Teacher Serena

Teacher Serena is a percussionist, dancer and music educator with a special focus on West African music and dance. A highlight of her career thus far was performing for the Grand Durbar of chiefs at the Afenorto music festival in Ghana.​

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Teacher Cole

Teacher Cole is a percussionist, music educator and composer. Some of his highlight performance venues include the Walt Disney Concert Hall, REDCAT Theater, World Music Festival at CalArts and the Segerstrom Center for the Arts.​

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Teacher Levi

Teacher Levi is a drummer, percussionist, composer and music educator with 20 years of experience playing jazz, post-rock, rock, pop, funk, and soul music. He has recorded, written for and played more than 500+ gigs across the country.​

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Teacher Lev

Teacher Lev is a professional singer-songwriter, producer, drummer, guitarist and educator from Pittsburgh, PA. He currently writes for up and coming pop and indie artists around the world as well as releasing his own music.​

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Teacher Vanessa

Teacher Vanessa is a professional singer and music educator. She was born and raised in Los Angeles and her first language is Spanish. As a performer, Vanessa has toured with choirs around the world, recorded on Grammy nominated albums, and worked with many preeminent producers and musicians across LA.​

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Teacher Christina

Teacher Christina is a guitarist, ukulele player and songwriter originally from Toronto, Canada and is currently the lead guitarist for two bands. One highlight in her career was opening for the Rolling Stones at BST Hyde Park in London.​

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Teacher Ray

Teacher Ray is a Hip Hop freestyle dancer originally from Tampa, FL. He has traveled throughout the United States competing at the highest level of Hip Hop events and performed in a series of music videos featuring well known artists, all while spreading the love for Hip Hop culture.​

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Teacher Kylie

Teacher Kylie is a pianist, vocalist, songwriter and educator from the Coachella Valley. She specialized in early childhood education, is Orff certified and performs her original music throughout LA.​

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Teacher Katie

Teacher Katie is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and music educator hailing from San Diego and currently based in Los Angeles. She is a trained jazz vocalist and had the honor of being a featured soloist in Kenny Burrell’s 85th birthday concert.​

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Teacher Gabriel

Teacher Gabriel is a percussionist, dancer, actor and educator. His work blends Puerto Rican rhythms with contemporary dance and global influences. He currently leads the musical project Plenazo Tribe and collaborates with the sketch comedy ensemble Honestly Curious.​

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Teacher Maga

Teacher Maga, born in Córdoba, Argentina, is a multilingual singer-songwriter, actor and educator. Her instruments are voice, percussion, guitar and ukulele. She has toured the world with musical and circus troupes and currently performs her original music far and wide.​

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Teacher Savannah

Teacher Savannah is a versatile musician and licensed Music Educator currently pursuing Music Therapy engaging in field work at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. With a lifelong passion for music, Savannah holds a degree in Music Education and has mastered multiple instruments, including singing, piano, and cello. 

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Teacher Domenic

Teacher Domenic is a music producer, audio engineer, guitarist, and music educator originally from Maryland. Domenic has worked with artists from all over the world, from London to China and everywhere in-between. In 2022, he had the honor of working on a Grammy Nominated album!

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Teacher Anaís

Teacher Anaís (they/them) is a Peruvian-born, California-based composer, vocalist, and educator. Fluent in both Spanish and English, they focus on songwriting in their teaching. In 2024, Anais released their debut album Simp’ashani: Canciones Trenzadas, a trilingual project (Quechua, English, and Spanish) exploring migration stories from the Andes.

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Teacher Evan

Teacher Evan is an award-winning film composer with a passion for storytelling through music, working as a freelance composer for independent films, advertising, Hans Zimmer's Bleeding Fingers Music and redCola. He brings a wealth of experience to teaching. With years of composing for various film projects and working as a private music teacher, Evan aims to inspire and foster creativity and confidence in every student, helping them find their unique voice through music.

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Teacher Kristen

Teacher Kristen is a passionate music educator, and singer/songwriter who's been working to inspire children of all ages for over 20 years. Growing up in New England, she was surrounded by music and art from a young age, and went on to graduate from Boston's Berklee College of Music with a specialty in vocal performance and music therapy. Kristen has performed and taught music all over the world and has multiple original children's records available for streaming on all platforms. When she's not making music, she loves to hike the beautiful surrounding mountains of Los Angeles, carrying her little old dog Pedro in a backpack so he can enjoy them, too!

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