GITC's Board of Directors
JESSICA ANNE BARON
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ART HARVEY
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JOHN UNGER
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RUTH HALLER
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MIMI SENEY
SECRETARY
Mimi Seney, Ed.M, received her Bachelor’s Degree in Special Education from Central Washington University and Master’s Degree in Deaf Education/Special Education from Washington State University. Mimi has received the added endorsements to work with students who qualify for specially designed instruction under the qualifying category of Emotionally Disturbed (ED) and Deaf-Blind (DB), and is recognized as a Leading Edge Certificated (LEC) on-line and blended learning teacher. Mimi has received certificates in Restorative Conferencing, Youth Mental Health First Aid, and QPR trained in Suicide Prevention with the San Diego County Suicide Prevention Council. Currently, Mimi is the Head Teacher at East Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility and the After School Student Enrichment for Teens (ASSETs) Coordinator for East Mesa. She also serves on the Executive Board as Secretary for the San Diego County Association of Educators. Mimi began working with GITC in 2016 when she won her first ukulele in a silent auction and learned under the tutelage of GITC Faculty Trainer Dan Decker. Since then she has been a presenter at a GITC AMAISE conference on teaching strategies for young students in June, 2019 and continues to instruct students in ukulele, guitar, and keyboarding in the after-school program FLY Tunes at East Mesa (currently on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Mimi is been a life-long, self-taught musician in piano, guitar, and ukulele. With strong beliefs of the healing and restorative powers music brings, Mimi was awarded the Adjudicator’s Choice Award in 2020 for her work in the Project Confined Redefined bringing music (primarily ukuleles) to many of San Diego’s forgotten youth currently facing penalties for serious offences.
SECRETARY
Mimi Seney, Ed.M, received her Bachelor’s Degree in Special Education from Central Washington University and Master’s Degree in Deaf Education/Special Education from Washington State University. Mimi has received the added endorsements to work with students who qualify for specially designed instruction under the qualifying category of Emotionally Disturbed (ED) and Deaf-Blind (DB), and is recognized as a Leading Edge Certificated (LEC) on-line and blended learning teacher. Mimi has received certificates in Restorative Conferencing, Youth Mental Health First Aid, and QPR trained in Suicide Prevention with the San Diego County Suicide Prevention Council. Currently, Mimi is the Head Teacher at East Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility and the After School Student Enrichment for Teens (ASSETs) Coordinator for East Mesa. She also serves on the Executive Board as Secretary for the San Diego County Association of Educators. Mimi began working with GITC in 2016 when she won her first ukulele in a silent auction and learned under the tutelage of GITC Faculty Trainer Dan Decker. Since then she has been a presenter at a GITC AMAISE conference on teaching strategies for young students in June, 2019 and continues to instruct students in ukulele, guitar, and keyboarding in the after-school program FLY Tunes at East Mesa (currently on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Mimi is been a life-long, self-taught musician in piano, guitar, and ukulele. With strong beliefs of the healing and restorative powers music brings, Mimi was awarded the Adjudicator’s Choice Award in 2020 for her work in the Project Confined Redefined bringing music (primarily ukuleles) to many of San Diego’s forgotten youth currently facing penalties for serious offences.
JOAN MAUTE
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LARRY MITCHELL
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TOM DOUGHERTY
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RAMI YANNI
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MOLLY STEWART
DIRECTOR AT LARGE

Molly Stewart is excited to serve on the Board of Directors of Guitars in the Classroom. She has been an educator in San Diego Unified School District for 22 years. Molly holds undergraduate degrees in sociology and liberal studies and a Masters of Arts Education from Cal State San Marcos, She is also a national board-certified teacher in the area of Literacy: Reading - Language Arts, Early and Middle Childhood, and holds credentials for multiple subject teaching, reading specialist, and administrative. She is passionate about education as a teacher, a learner, and a leader.
Molly has been involved with Guitars in the Classroom for many years. She began by taking classes to bring music to the students in her classroom and loved attending the GITC retreats. She strongly believes in the work that GITC does and has volunteered in many capacities over the years including tuning instruments, preparing and organizing materials, volunteering at events, being a member of the Education Committee, and more. Molly's family will often volunteer as well; it is one of her favorite things for them to do together.
Molly has been involved with Guitars in the Classroom for many years. She began by taking classes to bring music to the students in her classroom and loved attending the GITC retreats. She strongly believes in the work that GITC does and has volunteered in many capacities over the years including tuning instruments, preparing and organizing materials, volunteering at events, being a member of the Education Committee, and more. Molly's family will often volunteer as well; it is one of her favorite things for them to do together.
BOARD MEMBERS EMERITUS
JUDY ROBERTS
BOARD MEMBER EMERITUS, SPECIAL PROJECTS

Judy Roberts, while experienced with many years and in many types of business, sales and marketing, has been a professional musician for almost 4 decades. With degrees in business, it was a 2006 lung cancer (non-smoker) diagnosis that sparked her actions to merge her business acumen and contacts in the music industry to deploy the powers of each to the benefit of cancer research and it’s fundraising functions. Judy serves as Executive Director for the non-profit Creative Arts as a Global Resource (CAGR), a project of the International Council for Caring Communities in collaboration with the United Nations.
Judy lives in the Boston area with her son and works in concert promotion locally and regionally. Her music performance experience is in classical, but her music work is in the jazz genre working with many nationally known artists. Her commitment to GITC is symmetrical to her loyalty to merging music with medicine: inculcating music into various medical settings and events to benefit others, change the “tone” of environments, and with gratefulness, make an impact on many…..
Judy lives in the Boston area with her son and works in concert promotion locally and regionally. Her music performance experience is in classical, but her music work is in the jazz genre working with many nationally known artists. Her commitment to GITC is symmetrical to her loyalty to merging music with medicine: inculcating music into various medical settings and events to benefit others, change the “tone” of environments, and with gratefulness, make an impact on many…..