Organizations I've worked with include:Charity Group Of Good Affinity Inc.- Leesburg,VA
(providing summer & weekend programs to keep youth in the Vietnamese community, among others, active and learning)
St Barnabas Episcopal Church - Annandale, VA (providing weekly lessons to kids in a community after-school program)
Here I teach guitar to 4th and 5th graders attending Alternative House's Annandale Safe Youth Project (ASYP).
St. Barnabas' music director, Susan Onderdonk invited me to teach the kids after a kind referral by the Late Mr. Aden.
Gear Up - Music In Schools Today - San Francisco, CA (providing music education in schools) - I provided learning through song - and some recording lessons - I was invited by the director, Deb Bradway, to use “You Remind Me” – a song I wrote as a tribute to Dr. King – as a social awareness tool, to mix fun & learning, to inspire 7th & 8th Graders in James Lick & Luther Burbank middle schools, as well as to motivate teenagers detained in a juvenile correction center.
:: Youth groups in Northern VA and the Washington DC metropolitan area hire me to teach guitar & basic recording techniques to their students :: I may travel to other areas if possible
:: My lessons incorporate self esteem and healthy-frame-of-mind building activities
:: Using music I enrich these young people's lives in fun, yet educational ways and tie in other life skills to guide them on "how to fish"