Frank has volunteered with reDiscover Center since 2015. Frank is a retired entrepreneur and engineer with extensive volunteering experience working directly with at-risk youth through organizations including 826LA, Trash for Teaching, and Walk with Sally. Frank volunteers 35+ hours per week during the Tinkering Camp season as a camp facilitator and specialist in design thinking...
Nico Palermo loves kids, and they love him. Perhaps reDiscover's most sought after Facilitator, Nico builds instant rapport with tinkerers with his infectious enthusiasm, goofy humor, and authentic interest in every child he works with. Nico started with reDiscover as a high school intern in the earliest days of Tinkering Camp and has continued through...
Natalie Guerra is originally from Santa Barbara, CA but has been a Los Angeles resident for over 7 years. She is currently finishing the bachelor program with a major in Psychology, at Antioch University of Los Angeles. She is also starting the Masters program in April to be a Clinical Psychologist. Natalie wants to work...
Allie Carr is a senior art history major at Loyola Marymount University. She is the newest intern at reDiscover Center starting January 2020. Allie grew up in San Diego with a passion for the arts. She attended art classes and camps in the summer, and soon fell in love with art education. Allie is passionate...
Hanabee Cartagena is an experienced maker. Graduating from the Communication Arts program with a minor in Community Arts Engagement at Otis College, she has been facilitating programs at reDiscover Center since 2018 from Intern to Lead Facilitator. Apart from creating tactile works, she values process as much as the product, recording her maker skills to...
Reflections upon volunteering for reDiscover Center. "I have learned about new uses for trash materials such as cardboard, plastic containers, and miscellaneous metal pieces. During a few sessions, kids would come to the ReDiscover center with their parents and were so excited to build artwork out of sustainable materials. This community service has taught me...
Isabella is one of our newest facilitators here at reDiscover! She helps teach camp, after school and homeschool classes. Isabella was born and raised in East LA and has been a part of community art spaces from the young age of 12. She studied Fine Arts & Arts Education as an undergrad at UCLA and...
Orr Herz is an exhibiting artist who works in a variety of media, from acrylics to ceramics to welding. He's also one of reDiscover's Lead Facilitators, leading camps and classes at reDiscover Center and throughout Los Angeles. Orr is reDiscover's Coordinator for Pasadena-area programming, including our partnership with Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts...
Facilitator Emma Ramey teaches in reDiscover's after school, camp, and festival programs and assists with building operations and client relations. Great at organizing activities for a room full of kids at a birthday party or patiently working one-on-one with a tinkerer, Emma loves working with kids. A graduate of Cal State LA with a major...
Margaret knows her stuff. As a technical theater major at UCLA, she mastered carpentry, scenic work, AV, and a host of theater disciplines. Totally unflappable, she loves hearing about the plans of our tinkerers and figuring out with them how to make it into amazing projects. Margaret has been with reDiscover since 2018 involved with...