Led by practitioners who understand this work.

Gabrielle Molina is the inaugural Director of Programs at El Sistema USA and the founder of In Concert, formerly Teaching Artists International.

She serves on the coaching faculty of AIM, the Academy for Impact through Music, where she coaches and mentors teaching artists from around the world working in music for social action organizations. She is also faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, where she teaches Global Citizenship in the Arts, and was a faculty member and career coach at the Longy School of Music of Bard College from 2019 to 2023.

In 2018, Gabrielle founded Teaching Artists International, a music nonprofit that creates teaching artist exchanges spanning four continents. She is the winner of the 2020 Sphinx Tank, awarded to the Next Great Cultural Entrepreneur, and in 2022 was named one of Yamaha's 40 Under 40, Celebrating Excellence in Music Education.

She has held fellowships with National Arts Strategies, the Global Leaders Program, MassChallenge, and the Harvard Innovation Labs. She began her career at YOLA (Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles) and iCAN (The Incredible Children's Art Network), two El Sistema-inspired programs in Southern California. Gabrielle holds a Master's in International Education Policy from Harvard University.

Graciela Briceño is a music educator, program director, and international education specialist whose career spans over 20 years across community music, teaching artistry, and global development.

After beginning her educational career in Kenya, she founded the Boston Music Project, an El Sistema-inspired nonprofit in Massachusetts that grew under her leadership to serve 300+ students annually, including a leadership training program for adolescents, Mozart Paper Orchestra, and Beethoven Ensemble for students with special needs.

In addition to directing and teaching, Graciela has worked as an education consultant and teacher trainer with music for social change programs globally, and served as Managing Editor and writer for The World Ensemble.

From 2019 to 2025, she worked as an International Education Specialist at USAID, focusing on social-emotional learning and education in crisis and conflict settings. She worked directly with education systems and schools in Mozambique, Colombia, and Ghana.

Graciela studied Music Education at Boston University and holds an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also a graduate of the Sistema Fellows Program at New England Conservatory. She now teaches music and plays viola in London, United Kingdom.

María Fernanda is a Venezuelan music educator and cultural manager whose career sits at an exceptional intersection of health, the arts, and human service.

Trained within Venezuela's Sistema Nacional de Orquestas, her professional identity was forged not only through music — as a clarinetist and saxophonist — but also through the rigor of analytical laboratory work as a licensed Bioanalyst. This combination has built a profile where technical precision and deep human sensitivity serve culture and social transformation together.

Her work in community laboratories gave her direct contact with patients and their realities, sharpening the empathy she considers essential for leading arts projects with social purpose. That same orientation shapes her approach to cultural management: she understands the synergy between human wellbeing and music as a force capable of measurable, lasting impact.

Certified as a Firebird Teaching Artist by the Academy for Impact through Music (AIM), she has developed methodologies for innovation in music education, community building, and collaborative learning among agents of social change.

Her international experience reached a milestone in Peru, where she served as Núcleo Director at Sinfonía por el Perú — leading programs for hundreds of children and young people from vulnerable communities in Lima, and contributing to music education for neurodivergent learners.

Upon arriving in Madrid, she developed a multicultural music education project as a volunteer with an organization supporting migrant children, connecting her own experience as a migrant with her artistic background and her belief that music builds bridges of hope and resilience in new environments.

She has also worked within the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía's Lifelong Learning department and is currently completing a Master's in Cultural Management at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and ICCMU.