Board of Directors

 


S&FMA board member Suzanne WelanderSuzanne Welander
President		It was 1995 when a friend told Suzanne about a marching band that hit neighborhood festivals and played for beer. She found the Seed & Feed and was all in. After experiencing a marching band mosh pit on a packed harbor cruise during HONK Boston, she switched from piccolo to baritone saxophone. She joined the Endowment board in 2023. Suzanne is a whitewater canoeist and author of Canoeing & Kayaking Georgia.

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Liz Weiler
Vice President		I have played Clarinet for 49 years and Bass Clarinet for 31 years.  During the pandemic, I taught myself brass. Music has led me to friends, adventures and the pride that accomplishment and hard work can bring. The SFMA Endowment Board awards grants to provide musical opportunities to a wide variety of recipients. I can think of no bigger privilege than to make the joy music brings me available to others.

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Jenny Grollman
Treasurer		Jenny joined the band in January of 2000 as a flute player and switched to piccolo in 2019! She has spent all of her adult life growing up in this incredible organization. She spent some years on the band council and other appointed positions and in 2024 joined the Endowment as Treasurer. She works in advertising by day and has been a dance trapeze and silks student


Lydia Allen
Secretary		Lydia saw an Instagram reel of the costumed SFMA performing at Star Bar during Mardi Gras in 2023 and she and her husband, Danny, were marching with the band by St. Patrick’s Day! Piccolo is her main instrument, but she’s dabbling with ukulele and the surdo drum. After more than two decades away from her marching band days, she is thrilled to have a band family again and bring joy to the community through music and performance! She is excited to make a further impact on Atlanta through the grants the endowment provides for local music education! When not performing with the band, you can find her working from home as a retirement plan administrator or exploring Atlanta on foot with Danny and their miniature schnauzer!

Brooke Aksnes		Brooke and her alto sax joined the band in 2022, a decade and change after her high school senior marching band bio confidently declared she looked forward to joining *indoor* ensembles in future. By day, Brooke is an epidemiologist working mainly in the Global South and a proud pit bull mama.


Chris Haugh
Chris joined the band in the Fall of 2013 and has served in various elected and appointed positions. This is his second stint with the Endowment Board. By day, Chris works in the exciting world of accounting software support, so weekends filled with music (and beer!) are exactly what the doctor ordered. Chris sees the band and the Endowment as integral entities to help inspire and enable the next generation of music in our communities.

Cindia Cameron
In 2017 Cindia asked when Seed and Feed would have a ‘strolling strings’ section. There was a packet of flute music in her mailbox the next day. She joined the flute section, playing electric violin, on a dare, but found that she loved it. When Seed and Feed offered a ‘baby band’
session to learn a new instrument, she brought a trumpet formerly played by one of her kids thinking, “how hard could this be?” She found out! She is still working hard on 2nd trumpet. By day she teaches English to immigrant and refugees in Clarkston.

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Jennifer MacLeod
Jennifer is an Atlanta area native & joined SFMA in 2004 after the Inman Park Festival. She’s mainly a flute/piccolo player, and is challenging herself to learn few other instruments (xylophone/bells, bass drum, melodica & guitar). Her non-musical skills (besides joining the Endowment Board in 2021) are: Broom Closet member, & Music Selection Committee member since 2017. Before the COVID-19 pandemic shut everything down she was often greeting and assisting event attendees as a Guest Services Specialist at the Georgia World Congress Center

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Molly Brown		Molly became an Abominable with her bari sax and a member of the Endowment board in 2023, but she’s been a life-long fan of Seed & Feed. By day, she manages grant money for a major university. On nights and weekends, she joins her band family to entertain the masses.