The LPMC Foundation will be managed by the current and former students of Miss Kim and LPMC with supervision from the LPMC Foundation Board of Directors and parent volunteers. We will strive to maintain a sustainable, integrity-driven foundation that will tirelessly look forward. Our involvement with the LPMC Foundation will continue to foster our own character development and understanding of how to live a life based on Love, Peace, Mercy and Compassion.

Whe Do Kim, President; Artistic Director
Founder of the 30 year old Lincoln Park Music Center, piano instructor to over 200 students during this time, and general life and character teacher.  It is Miss Kim’s influence on the many students and families she has touched with her many talents over the years that have inspired us to form and fund the LPMC Foundation.

Lisa Capitanini, Vice President
Lisa is a TV News Producer at NBC Universal in Chicago. Prior to that she worked at the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reporter, and CBS. She is a member of The National Academy of Television Arts & Science (NATAS) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). She holds a BA from Macalester College and an MSJ from Northwestern University. Lisa’s two children are students at LPMC.

Fannie Young, Secretary
Fannie is trained as a lawyer and has primarily worked in finance, international estate tax planning and real estate investments.  She started her career at a family office, and later became a principal of a venture lending fund in the Silicon Valley where she was responsible for operations including finance and legal due diligence.  She also has counseled clients on international estate and tax planning as a financial consultant at Merrill Lynch.  She holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley and a JD from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco.  She is a member of the California State Bar.  Her two children are students at LPMC.

Mariam Alsikafi, Treasurer
Mariam Alsikafi was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. She attended Dartmouth College and the Harvard Business School. Mariam Alsikafi is a co-Founder of The Citizens Archive. She brings with her a unique perspective from time spent in finance and management, allowing her to refine and develop a sustainable and ambitious strategy for the organization that includes raising funds and developing access to cutting edge education policy and tools. She has led Exchange for Change projects between schools in Pakistan and North America and a pilot history and culture project with the Google Cultural Institute. Mariam Alsikafi is also the co-Founder of Higher Education Advisors LLC, an education counseling firm supporting underserved, primarily first-generation college applicants. She has served on the Alumni Board of Directors at the Harvard Business School, the Silk Road Theater Project and the Women's Steering Committee for CARE USA. She is currently a Chicago host for We.org, a supporter of Young Chicago Authors, a member of the Founders' Board at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and a Board member for the Lincoln Park Music Center Foundation. She is also a founding member of the Leadership Now Project, aimed at recruiting and developing women business leaders for government.

Jeane Emily DuBose, Assistant Secretary; Chair for the Website and Communications
Jeane Em graduated with high honors from the University of Michigan in April 2017. She studied history, focusing specifically on the intersection of law and mental health in the Victorian era. She currently works as the Manager of Science and Technology at the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation. Her past experience includes working for the American Bar Association, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and the University of Chicago’s Graham School of Continuing Education. Since moving back home, she volunteers as a youth group leader with her church. She graduated from Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in 2013. While in high school, she took lessons from Ms. Kim and tutored younger students. She is the first alumni Board Member.

Katya Budzinski, Chair for Local Projects
Katya obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Georgetown University and earned her Master of Education degree, with distinction, in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from DePaul University. After graduating from Georgetown, Katya worked for several years as a Case Manager for individuals with developmental disabilities at a wonderful facility called Misericordia Heart of Mercy.  Upon completing her graduate degree, Katya has started her own practice, Authentic Insights Counseling, where she provides individual mental health services to adults. She graduated from Latin School of Chicago in 2010. Katya took lessons from Miss Kim from kindergarten through senior year of high-school.

Colin Flood, Assistant Treasurer
Dr. Colin Flood is an alumnus of the Lincoln Park Music Center and is fortunate to have studied piano, French, and Korean under Miss Kim’s inspiring tutelage. He is currently based in New Haven, CT where he is Medical Director of Information Technology and Medical Information Officer for the Yale New Haven Health System and Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He holds degrees from Harvard College, Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University, and Rush Medical College, and he completed post-graduate training in Emergency Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital. Dr. Flood began his career as a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton.

Jennifer Kang, Assistant Artistic Director
Jennifer Kang is currently the Operational Excellence and Strategy Lead (Chief of Staff) for the Device Accessories and Pre-Owned organizations at Amazon. Her 17+ year career has spanned nearly every aspect of operations and supply chain as well as product management at AMAX Engineering Corp., Apple, and Amazon. She has led projects and built businesses collaborating and negotiating up to C-suite levels. She is highly sought after as a mentor, particularly in developing women leadership within Amazon, and is a key member of a council promoting and pipelining diversity candidates. She graduated from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign with a BA in Music Theory with a concentration on piano performance and a minor in harp performance. Jennifer grew up surrounded by classical music and attributes her professional success to her musical training.

Jane Shin Agler, Assistant Secretary
Jane is a writer, journalist, classical music enthusiast and former student of the Lincoln Park Music Center. Born and raised in Chicago, she graduated from the Latin School of Chicago in 2016 and left Illinois to attend Oberlin College. There, she majored in creative writing and Hispanic studies; the latter of which gave her the opportunity to temporarily live in Guadalajara, Mexico and Valaparaiso, Chile. After graduating from college in 2020, she hoped to write as a career and pivoted to journalism. She got her master's degree in journalism at Northwestern University in 2021, and went on to work as an entertainment news editor and local food and wine writer. Now, she works as an assignment editor in local news, at NBC 5 Chicago. Her interest in local education and connection to Northwestern University led her to volunteer part-time as a journalism teacher to high school students at Curie Metropolitan High School, and now she hopes to continue her commitment to enriching communities through education and music via the LPMC Foundation.