Jar-el “Miki” Garcia

Jar-el “Miki” Garcia’s current role at Elemental Music is to coordinate and support novice educators in the Teaching Fellowship program but she initially joined the Elemental Music family in 2014 as a string section coach. Her full-time occupation is teaching elementary strings, choir, and general music classes in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Music Education and a Master's degree in Multicultural and Multilingual Education from California State University Northridge. She is certified in Social Emotional Arts through UCLArts and Healing program and applies the Whole Child philosophy in her daily instruction. Learning about language and culture through music, food, books, and media is her favorite pastime.