CHAMWINO CONNECT BOARD
CHAMWINO CONNECT VOLUNTEER BOARD
Leadership
DR. PATRICIA SHEHAN CAMPBELL
CHAIR
Patricia Shehan Campbell, Chamwino Connect board chair and University of Washington professor emeritus (Music), is author of publications on World Music Pedagogy, including Music, Education and Diversity and co-author of articles with Dr. Kedmon Mapana, on music of Tanzania.
GEORGE OBURU
VICE CHAIR
George Okoth Oburu, Vice-chair of CC, senior evaluator of Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (AI/ML) solutions, technologist, builder, and inventor of quality assurance solutions for distributed and embedded systems. Currently focused on evaluating AI/ML architecture for a personal assistant, Siri. He is pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Northcentral University. Besides being a husband and father to three wonderful kids, he is also a longtime sponsor ChildFund and Compassionate International.
JANET BAN
SECRETARY
Jan is a school music educator in Middle School Choral Activities and General Music for over 40 years.
DR. BARBARA LUNDQUIST
TREASURER
Dr. Barbara Reeder Lundquist is an American musician, teacher, and scholar, working as professor of music at the University of Washington and in the Seattle public schools. She was educational consultant for the Smithsonian Global Sound, the U.S. Information Service in Malawi and Mozambique the Yamaha Corporation, the Manhattanville Music Curriculum Project, and the Contemporary Music Project (among others). She is widely known for her inspiring work on Sub-Saharan African music, in publications, clinical presentations, and lectures here and there in the world. She has worked closely with Kedmon Mapana in research and practice, and was instrumental in establishing Chamwino Connect as a 501c3 NGO, and in continuing support the efforts of the CC-CAC partnership since 2008.
Board Members
(in alphabetical order)
DR. WILLIAM J. COPPOLA
BOARD MEMBER
Will is Assistant Professor of Music Teaching and Learning at the USC Thornton School of Music. He is co-author of World Music Pedagogy Volume IV (Instrumental Music Education, 2018) and Volume VII (Teaching World Music in Higher Education, 2020), published by Routledge. He was previously an elementary music director with New York City Public Schools.
BRIAN HICKORY
BOARD MEMBER
Brian lives in Steamboat Springs, CO with his wife and two daughters, and operates a home inspection business. Brian has been involved with Chamwino Connect since 2008.
DR. SEAN ICHIRO MANES
BOARD MEMBER
This is Sean's 18th year as a music teacher for the Jersey City Public Schools in New Jersey, USA. In this capacity, he teaches general music, small group voice instruction, musicianship, musical theatre, piano and choir. As a member of the Music Curriculum Revision Committee, Sean was tasked with ensuring further inclusion of world music and social emotional learning (SEL) into the music classroom. As well, Sean was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Medgar Evers College, the African-themed campus of the City University of New York (CUNY) for six years (2014-2020), where he taught ethnomusicology courses. Sean holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington, and is an alumnus of Columbia University and Westminster Choir College.
VOICELYN JOHNSON
BOARD MEMBER
BFA in Graphic Design, University of Washington.
Art Director at True North Advertising, NYC, Retired.
Some clients:
US West (Qwest), Sun Sentinel—Fort Lauderdale (Broward County, FL), Chicago News Tribune, Citibank, NYC., Disney Online
DR. LENORE RUBIN
BOARD MEMBER
Lenore is a clinical psychologist and retired member of Public Health Seattle King County Childcare Health Team.
DR. LAUREL SERCOMBE
BOARD MEMBER
Laurel Sercombe is an ethnomusicologist and former archivist for the Ethnomusicology Program at the University of Washington in Seattle, now retired. Her areas of interest include Coast Salish literature and songs, the history of ethnographic research in the Pacific Northwest, and the Beatles. Among her publications are the articles “Native Seattle in the Concert Hall: An Ethnography of Two Symphonies” and “History of Lushootseed Language Instruction.” She volunteers locally with the UW Burke Museum, Jack Straw Cultural Center, and the Lushootseed Language Conference.
CINDY STRONG
BOARD MEMBER
Cindy Strong has been the Education Librarian at Seattle Pacific University for 14 years and will retire in June, 2023. While working as the Education Librarian, she was fortunate enough to be Kedmon Mapana's librarian. During that time, Kedmon asked her to go to his village in Tanzania and start a library in the local school. In 2012, she made her first trip there to help establish a structure for the Chamwino Secondary School Library. Since that year, she has been back 3 more times to work with the library and attend the awesome music festival. The library now has a librarian, lots of books, computers, wifi, and e-readers.
DR. KEDMON MAPANA
CHAMWINO LIASON
Kedmon is the founder of CAC and advisor of CAC visions and activities that are designs as well as implemented at the organization but also securing of funds for running the organization