Our Team
Dan Rubins
(he/him)
Co-Founder/Executive Director
Dan is an educator, writer, and composer based in New York City. Dan believes in the power of kids’ voices and stories. He co-founded Hear Your Song as a sophomore at Yale University, where he earned a BA in English and Education Studies. After receiving an MA in Shakespeare Studies from King’s College London/Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and an MA in Elementary Inclusive Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, he went on to teach fourth and fifth grade in Manhattan and to design curriculum for the Metropolitan Opera’s Education Department. Dan also composes musical theater, operas, and choral music.
Side 🎵: If Dan were a song, he’d be in the style of 1960s musical theater but with extremely unpredictable rhythms!
Dan very much agrees with this song with lyrics by Landon that tennis is the coolest sport!
Diana Lawrence
(she/her)
Programs Manager
Diana loves working across genres and disciplines to tell musical stories with folks of all ages. Her musical, Mill Girls, released a 2021 EP featuring Nikki Renée Daniels, Alysha Deslorieux and Val Vigoda. Her band, Diana & the Dishes, has shared the stage with artists such as Nellie McKay and Becca Stevens. Dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices, Diana has worked with Broadway Advocacy Coalition and Storycatchers Theatre, a company that creates original musical theatre with incarcerated youth. Outside of Hear Your Song, Diana sings with the cross-genre vocal trio, Artemisia, plays keyboard for Grammy Award-winning children’s artist, Tim Kubart, and tours as the Associate Music Director for the Off-Broadway musical Islander.
Side 🎵: If Diana were a song, she would be something soulful and groovy!
Diana loves to think about creative processes, and how we grow as artists and people, and so one of her favorite Hear Your Song songs is Maddie’s Trust the Process.
Rebecca Brudner
(she/her)
Co-Founder
Rebecca has been making music for as long as she can remember and she loves sharing her passion for music with young people through Hear Your Song. She holds a B.A. in Theater Studies from Yale University. Upon graduating, she received the Louis Sudler Arts Prize and the Susan H. Smith Arts Prize for her contributions to the performing arts at Yale. She has since performed off-Broadway and in theater productions across the country.
Side 🎵: If Rebecca were a song, she’d be something jazzy with a swing beat!
Julie Andrews is one of Rebecca’s all-time favorite singers, and Rebecca got to pay homage to the Mary Poppins star in this song with lyrics by Nadia!
Sofía Campoamor
(she/her)
Music Director
Born in Washington, DC, Sofía Campoamor first started writing songs to make school projects more fun. This lighthearted approach to academics took her to Yale University where her senior songwriting project in music composition won the 2020 Beekman Cannon Friends of Music Prize. Sofía also took a year off from school to travel the world as the first woman singer and assistant music director in the Yale Whiffenpoofs a cappella group. She now lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she writes, records, and performs original folk-pop, teaches voice and songwriting classes, and sings with the Oratory Choir of St. Boniface. After six years as a Hear Your Song volunteer, she is so excited to be joining the team!
Side 🎵: If Sofía were a song, she would be a gentle wake up alarm — a reverse lullaby!
Sofía was thrilled to collaborate with Laura on this song because she really resonated with the idea that working hard at something matters and changes you for the better, even when the outcome is unclear or you have not yet achieved a tangible victory.
Roman Rojas
(he/him)
Music Production Coordinator
Roman is a two-time Latin-Grammy-nominated producer and songwriter. He joined HYS because he loves music and because of the beauty of empowering children, amplifying their voices, and providing them with an outlet for self-expression that may otherwise be inaccessible.
Side 🎵: If Roman were a song, he would be something with good music. Like Duke Ellington said, there are two types of music: good and bad.
Dani Pyne
(she/her)
Social Media Coordinator
Dani is a Film & Media major with an Art minor at the University of Rhode Island. She loves music, photography, makeup, dogs, knitting, and swimming at the beach!
Side 🎵: If Dani were song, she would be a soulful song because she is artistic, compassionate, and soul music has always spoken to her.
Dani feels most connected to Kerrin’s song “My Favorite Season”, because this was one of the first songs from HYS that she ever listened to, and she told us that “she was so impressed that a kid wrote this incredible song!” Dani is a huge lover of Christmas, so she loves that it feels like an iconic Christmas song. After watching a video of Kerrin talking about the process of writing her song and wanting it to sound like Hallmark movie music, she told us that she gained even more appreciation and admiration for this tune!
Board of Directors
Missy Adriazola
Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Pret a Manger
Rebecca Brudner
Ben Lobley
Senior Associate, WilmerHale
Andrea Morgan
Director, Comcast
Max Sauberman
Senior Manager, Strategy and Growth, Fever-Tree
Suzanne Clifton Walsh
Founder, Creative Arts and Athletics
Medical Advisory Council
Dr. Jenny Seham, Chair Montefiore Medical Center
Dr. AZA Allsop Yale New Haven Hospital
Dr. Michelle Loy Weill Cornell Hospital
Olga Lucia Torres Columbia University
Dr. Michael Willers The Children’s Heart Center
Dr. Meredith Winter Children’s Hospital Los Angeles