Brendan Skidmore is a composer, musician, and producer currently living in New York City. He spends his time working out of his Brooklyn recording studio, writing and producing music with his group as well as developing projects with other artists. A native to San Francisco, he comes home every summer to create original music with kids at Glitter & Razz. He is honored to have been connected with the Glitter & Razz family since its first summer camp in 2003.

Although born in California, Cinda was raised in the nations oldest city, Saint Augustine, Florida and graduated from Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, Illinois in 2007. At 20 years old, she has spent the last fifteen years exploring her love for theater and music, performing in many plays, musicals, choral and a capella singing groups, dance groups, and improv acting and writing groups. Cinda is currently splits her time between Oakland and Santa Cruz and continues to create solace through music and theater.

Cassie has been involved in the bay area theatre & film scene for nine wonderful years. Before starting with Glitter & Razz in 2008, Cassie traveled all over California performing Twelfth Night for students K-12 with SF Shakespeare Festival. She has also taught with SF Shakes, Berkeley Rep and, Malcolm X Elementary School in south Berkeley. She is currently the theater specialist at Horrall Elementary School, a visual and performing arts magnet school in San Mateo, CA. Cassie is thrilled to be part of the Glitter & Razz team and is expecting lots of fun and many smiles this summer.

Kelly Takunda Orphan Martinez, a vocalist, percussionist, songwriter and dancer, and a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, has performed music on three continents and in both hemispheres. She draws that musical experience into her songwriting. In 1994, after recording and touring with Babatunde Olatunji and African Rain, Kelly studied music and dance in Zimbabwe and performed for such luminaries as Nelson Mandela with The University of Zimbabwe Choir and Mhembero Dance Company. From 1998-2001, she toured nationally and internationally with Keith Terry and Crosspulse and was the founding member and musical director of the group Mutama, a women's vocal and percussion ensemble.

Along with leading her own band, The KTO Project, she currently teaches music at Park Day School and has also served as a Minister of Music at First Congregational Church of Oakland since 2002.  She is the founder and director of the the What's Goin' On Young Artists Workshop.

Martin Brecht is an artist and art educator currently living in Oakland, California. He began his career in arts education as a New York City Teaching Fellow- earning a masters in Urban Education and teaching art at a special education elementary school in the Lower East Side. His abstract cityscape paintings, drawings, and collages reflect the chaotic experience of life in Brooklyn*, New York City and work in high-needs urban education. Selections from his work have been exhibited in Philadelphia, New York, and Berkeley, CA.

 In 2007, he received the Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Fellowship to attend an Advanced Study in Public Art at the National Academy of Fine Art in New York. After completing the fellowship, Martin collaborated with artist Keir Johnston to develop the LIVE Mural Workshop, an inclusive grassroots, community arts project- the first taking place at New Design High School's (NYC) Krush Groove Rooftop Legends art event in 2008.

Currently Martin is an after school teaching artist at Malcolm X Arts & Academic Magnet in Berkeley, CA.

Miz Sophia is a performing artist, creative educator, and the founding director/ringleader of MagiKidz, an interactive entertainment company. She has a B.A. in Integrative Arts and has taught gymnastics, dance, theater, and circus arts in many kids programs, and summer camps including F.I.T., AcroSports, Kinetic Arts Center, Steve & Kate's Camp, and Glitter & Razz. She has also produced a fabulous interactive Kidz Village at multiple music festivals, and coordinated the very short and the very tall into countless parades. She likes to paint faces, dress up and walk on stilts, glue pretty things together, and find creative playful ways to invite everyone into the magic.
 

Shara Hannah Finerman joins Glitter & Razz with over 17 years of experience as an artist and art teacher.  From Southern California originally, Shara has a BFA in drawing and painting, a Post-Baccalaureate in studio arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Masters in art education with K-12 license.  Shara loves teaching visual art and performing art because they encourage surprise, wonder, compassion and self-awareness, creativity, play, and growth.  You are invited to visit her website at www.sharahannah.com if you are curious about her artwork.  See you on the stage!  

Kiona Medina is a mixed media artist and educator born in Colombia, currently finishing her BA in Art education and Animation at San Francisco State University.  Just a few days after starting her first job as an after school teacher, a child asked her if Santa was ever going to die.  Since then, she’s committed herself to protect innocence, to nurture imagination, and to use the arts to ignite the creative power within us.  Children inspire her.  For the past four years she’s worked with students K-12 in after school settings, summer camps, and preschools. She became part of the Glitter & Razz family to grow as an art educator and to join their mission to empower children to change this world and thus keeping alive the belief that 'impossible' is just an opinion.