Secretary, Board of Directors
Annie Tahtinen is a business advisor to SF-based green architecture firm MKThink, proud SFUSD mom, community gardener, youth mentor, swimmer of the Bay, and Little Mission Studio piano student and LMS Chamber Music Ensemble performer.
Born in San Francisco, Annie has deep musical roots with her Great Great Grandfather Napoleon as an opera singer with the SF Opera, Great Grandfather Luigi selling pianos in the early 1900s for Sherman and Clay, Grandmother Dolly, an amateur opera singer, and her father Gary Leuenberger, owner of G.Leuenberger & Co Pianos, (now Sherman and Clay on Mission and 3rd Streets) and original sound engineer for the Yamaha DX-7 Synthesizer.
Having access to music lessons came readily with having family in the music business, and it is with a deep faith in the power of music education to help change lives for the better and the diversity within it to keep the arts culturally vibrant and relevant, that Annie is committed to helping our young people have greater access to it. Annie also has nearly a decade of recent nonprofit experience serving in manager and director roles at the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) and Jewish Vocational Services (JVS). Annie lives in San Francisco with her husband Roy, young son Leo, and their two scruffy terrier mixes, Millie and Sheila.