​Nomi Abadi, President

A virtuoso pianist, singer, composer, activist, inventor of the NORY® double keytar, and President of the Female Composer Safety League, Nomi Abadi started composing when she was four years old, and made her piano debut as a guest soloist with the Orange County Chamber Orchestra at age 5. She toured as a classical pianist and soloist with numerous orchestras around the world as a child prodigy. As a musical artist, she has released an album and three EPs, and collaborated on numerous projects, including as a pianist on the Grammy nominated album "Sekou Andrews and the String Theory", and as a co-writer and guest vocalist on Satanic Planet’s debut album for the song, “Devil In Me” alongside Dave Lombardo (Slayer/Misfits) and Justin Pearson (The Locust/Deadcross).

Karina Pardus, Treasurer

Karina Pardus is the founder of Coy Compositions, is a composer, singer/songwriter, story teller, and Treasurer of the Female Composer Safety League. She writes music for podcasts (Talking Autism), video games (Hide vs. Seek), and has worked with companies such as Ipsy. She has been a panelist at the Salt Lake Gaming Convention, Game Sound Con, and a contributor to the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit. As a mom of 3, she knows that managing a family and a business requires a lot of creativity to not only balance her dreams, but to thrive among them. 

Grace-Mary Burega, Secretary

Grace-Mary Burega is composer for film, TV and video games as well as a woodwind multi-instrumentalist on saxophone, clarinet and flute. Her compositions have been on TV PSAs as well as in short and feature films. Grace Notes is her media composing company, which specializes in custom music for a variety of projects such as documentary, horror, comedy, animation and more. Grace-Mary is currently pursuing her Masters of Music degree at Berklee Online where she is studying film scoring. She is the Secretary of the Female Composer Safety League.

Catherine Nguyen, Board of Directors

​Catherine Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American composer, orchestrator, and pianist who  synthesizes traditional orchestral timbres with live-recorded instrumental colors and evocative  electronic textures. 
 
In addition to composing music for her own projects, Catherine has worked contract-based  assistant jobs under composers Tom Howe, Kubilay Uner, Michael Kramer, Mark Isham, and Germaine Franco, among others. Some of the projects she is credited on include American  Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (2021), the Sky TV docuseries Murder at the Cottage: The Search  for Justice for Sophie (2021), and Bill and Ted: Face the Music (2020). Recently, Catherine was selected as a mentee of the 2021 AWFC mentorship program where she studied under Christophe Beck. 
Catherine’s works have been recorded by ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble), cellist  Tina Guo, and multi-instrumentalist Pedro Eustache. Her piece titled Earthbound was recorded  by a 71-piece orchestra at 20th Century Fox Newman Scoring Stage under the baton of Anthony  Parnther. With a growing interest in popular styles of music, she wrote and produced a lo-fi hip hop single with singer-songwriter Destiny Corporan titled “Shadows”, which is available on all  major streaming platforms. 
 
A graduate of Columbia College Chicago (MFA ’20), Catherine currently works as a temp composer’s assistant at Blizzard Entertainment. When not in the studio making music or hustling for the next freelance gig, you can find her exploring the city, playing video games, or reading a book!

Chance Thomas, Board of Directors

Chance Thomas is an American composer, author, entrepreneur, and advocate. For more than 30 years, Chance has created award-winning original music for film,  video games, television, animation, musical theater, commercials, and virtual reality. His  music has underscored both critical acclaim and commercial success, including an  Oscar, an Emmy, and billions of dollars in sales worldwide.  His music scoring credits include some of the most valuable entertainment properties in  the world, including LORD OF THE RINGS, MARVEL, STAR WARS, AVATAR,  DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, KING KONG, DOTA 2, WARHAMMER, and many more.  He is most widely known for scoring blockbuster video games.  Chance is the author of a university textbook, “Composing Music for Games: The Art,  Technology and Business of Video Game Scoring”. This book has been universally praised for giving composers the tools needed to establish and maintain a successful  career in music scoring. His second book, “Making it HUGE in Video Games”, is due for  release in late 2022. 
​Chance has built studios, record labels, publishing companies, and other businesses  throughout his career. He has served in leadership and advisory roles for several  universities, including Johns Hopkins University, Brigham Young University, Full Sail  University, and Musicians Institute of Hollywood, He speaks regularly at university  music programs all across America.  

In the late 1900’s, Chance led the movement that brought game music into the Grammy  Awards. He is a founding member of the Game Audio Network Guild and served on its  Board of Directors for 15 years. He has served on Advisory Boards for the Game  Developers Conference and the Interactive Academy. He was honored in 2012 with the  Game Audio Network Guild’s Annual Recognition Award. Currently, he serves on the  Board of Directors for the Female Composer Safety League. 

Alison Plante, Board of Directors  

Alison Plante is Professor of Screen Scoring at Berklee College of Music and Program Director for the Berklee Online Masters of Music in Film Scoring. She has been a dedicated advocate for women composers throughout her teaching and professional work, including by serving as the faculty advisor for the Women's Film Initiative at Berklee since its founding. She was also the first female Chair of a collegiate Film Scoring department. Her more than two decades of scoring work includes credits in educational television; History Channel and PBS specials; award-winning documentary features and shorts; national TV spots, trailers, and corporate identity music; live action and animated shorts; theater (with a specialty in puppetry); and multimedia museum installations for the Smithsonian Institution and the Harvard Museum of Natural History. In her free time she has served on the board of other arts organizations, and is active as a climate activist. ​

Mirette Seireg, Board of Directors

Mirette Seireg, M.Sc. is a senior international development project manager with nearly 40 years of experience in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. She intuitively understands the power of music and its role to engage the soul in diverse global settings.  

In 2018, Mirette pursued a vision of managing a production music library dedicated to the inclusion of historically underrepresented composers and launched MPATH, LLC in 2018. 

APM Music (Los Angeles) and KPM (London), both divisions of Sony Music Publishing, distribute and co-publish MPATH music globally. 
To date, MPATH published and released about 150 albums, and has nearly 200 curated composers from six continents in its roster, many of them award-winning.  Mirette is a ferocious advocate of inclusion of diverse groups.  Proudly, MPATH is the first and only production music company of its kind to achieve gender parity among its composers. 

MPATH is certified by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) as a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), by the federal System for Award Management (SAM), and chairs the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality Committee for the Production Music Association (PMA). MPATH received a PMA Mark Award (2022 - Winner), a Grammy (2022 – Winner, Best Classical Compendium featuring two MPATH tracks), Women Business Enterprise, Supplier of the Year (2021 – Nominated); Broadcast Production Award (2020 – Winner, Best Overall Production Music Album of the Year).

Mirette currently lives in Los Angeles and serves as President/CEO of MPATH, LLC.

Joe Dunn, Board of Directors

Senator Joe Dunn (ret.) was a member of the California State Senate from 1998 to 2006. In the Legislature, he chaired key committees such as the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Housing Committee. He received international acclaim as chair of the Senate Investigation Committee into the 2001 California energy crisis, and subsequently as “The Man Who Cracked Enron” (California Lawyer Magazine). Prior to entering the Senate, he was a plaintiff’s lawyer in Orange County, working on mass tort cases surrounding child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, Big Tobacco, nuclear radiation contamination, and products liability litigation of defective medical devices and pharmaceuticals. He joined the Newport Beach office of Robins Kaplan after law school, and then Robinson, Calcagnie, Robinson, also in Newport Beach, where he continued to focus on sexual abuse, products liability, and complex litigation until his election to the Senate. 
Following his two terms in the State Senate, Dunn served as CEO of both the California Medical Association and the State Bar of California. He is currently lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law, an institution he cofounded while in the Senate. At UCI Law, he helped launch the UCI Cybersecurity Policy and Research Institute, the Civil Justice Research Institute, the Cannabis Research Center and most recently, the overall artificial intelligence and the law effort at the law school.  He currently serves as a trustee for the UCI Foundation and serves on the board of several organizations fighting sexual abuse in society.  Senator Dunn received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the Minnesota School of Law (1983) and his B.A. magna cum laude from the College of St. Thomas (1980).

Sorah Eun, Instagram Engager

Sorah is a media composer, singer-songwriter, and sound designer based in Vancouver, Canada. As a classically trained pianist, Sorah has been influenced by classical composers and orchestral music since childhood. When she discovered her passion for film music, she fell in love with the integration of orchestral elements with synths. Sorah is currently assisting and being mentored by, film composer and soundtrack arranger, Samuel Kim, who is highly recognized for his epic orchestrations and arrangements of film soundtracks on YouTube. Sorah makes it her mission to tell stories through music, both through her score composition in films and through her songs as an artist.