Muffin Music

advisors

Trip Hawkins - Founder & First CEO, Electronic Arts

Trip Hawkins, empire builder, Video Game Industry creator and founder of Electronic Arts (EA) has been featured in every major media outlet—including the rare distinction as both one of People Magazine’s, “50 Most Beautiful People,” and “King of the Nerds,” by The Economist.

One of the first to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame, Trip began his career working closely with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and helped grow the company to a Fortune 500 leader with 4,000 employees. He founded Electronic Arts (EA) in 1982, taking it public in 1989, the company is now valued at nearly $30 billion. Trip pioneered software as a new art form, creating a “New Hollywood” in Silicon Valley.

Trip later founded 3DO, going through his third IPO and continued to build big digital brands and pioneer new areas including the internet, GPUs, 3D engines, cloud services, digital media, social media, mobile apps, eSports, free to play games, virtual goods economies, VR, AR, Games as a Service, and new tech sectors including sustainability, organic food, EdTech, FinTech, ergonomics and drones.

A CEO for 33 years in four global companies, and an advisor to many other CEOs, Trip believes that success is only in part about how far we rise. The principles he practices and teaches today—also address living with happiness, purpose and meaning while overcoming setbacks with grace, wisdom and tenacity.

Trip graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and has an MBA from Stanford, where he also graduated with high distinction and currently lives in the Santa Ynez Valley in California.

Lisa Hawkins - Executive Director, The Hawkins Foundation

Lisa is an international award-winning brand strategist, marketer and creative director whose career has long been at the forefront of building brands that are as good for business as they are for the greater good.

Now working primarily as a mentor to Executive Directors and social/environmental entrepreneurs, her work includes NGOs like One Thread Collective, Muffin Music and Tribal Trust as well as former clients ranging from ocean conservation organization Sailors for the Sea founded by David Rockefeller, Jr., recording artist and environmentalist Jack Johnson and Target Corporation—to small, enterprising boutique brands—her campaigns educate and activate consumers while building awareness and driving impressive results.

In addition to being one of the first to launch an advertising agency dedicated to environmental and mission-based companies in 1990, she has also held senior positions at both the Utne Reader magazine and The Organic Center. Her love affair with words began in first grade when she became enthralled with novels about truth-seeking teen detective Nancy Drew, and at 10 she became an activist by starting a petition to save a forest near her home. Since childhood, she has been passionate about the power of story and its impact on creating change in the world.

She began her career as a print and broadcast journalist and currently lives in the Santa Ynez Valley in California.

Milda M. de Voe - Executive Director, Pen Parentis

M. De Voe is a Manhattan-based fiction writer who has won awards and published short fiction in nearly every genre. She holds an MFA from Columbia University where she was a Writing Fellow and where she studied under Michael Cunningham, Helen Schulman, Joyce Johnson, and thesis advisor Matthew Sharpe. She won a fellowship to the 2008 St. Petersburg Summer Literary Seminars. The manuscript of her Columbia thesis won an honorable mention.

In 2013, De Voe founded Pen Parentis, a literary nonprofit organization that provides resources to authors who are also parents. The organization hosts an annual Writing Fellowship for New Parents and runs a popular reading series in Manhattan called the Pen Parentis Literary Salons, which is curated by Christina Chiu.

A member of both Equity and SAG/AFTRA, under the name Milda DeVoe, she appeared in many plays in New York City, including The Marriage of Bette and Boo, A Lie of the Mind, Baby with the Bathwater and The Heidi Chronicles (as the title role). She still does voiceover work in both Lithuanian and English, and is one of the Lithuanian voices of OnStar.

Scott Reed - Founding Member, Lane 4 Fundraising

Scott Reed is a highly sought after fundraiser who has led numerous multi-million dollar campaigns throughout the Santa Barbara County community. Scott was named President and CEO of the Music Academy of the West in 2010 after serving as Vice President for Institutional Advancement. He served in that role through August 15, 2023.

As the Music Academy’s President and CEO, Scott Reed forged a number of transformative initiatives including partnerships with the New York Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra, the Mosher Guest Artist Program, an annual four-week String Quartet Seminar led by the Takács Quartet, a solo piano competition presented in collaboration with Steinway & Sons, Community Access programs cultivating new audiences, the Alumni Enterprise Awards, the Classical Music Evolution/Revolution Conference, and a Commissions and Premieres program.

Prior to his tenure at the Music Academy, Scott worked for the San Francisco Opera as Associate Director of Development and as a consultant for St. Luke’s Hospital Foundation.

Scott currently operates Lane 4 Fundraising with business partner, Jonathan Bishop, spearheading major fundraising drives throughout Santa Barbara County.

Scott Reed earned his bachelor's degree in Vocal Performance at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Linda Burrows - Program Coordinator, Santa Ynez Valley Concert Series

Linda’s work has focused primarily on Child Advocacy, advocating for and establishing Music & Arts Education programs, and strengthening communities. She has served as president on many hard-working boards including The Children & Families Action Network (Alameda County, CA), Solvang School Education Foundation (“SAM”), Valley Community Theatre, Santa Barbara Strings, and The Santa Ynez Valley Foundation.

Linda currently serves as the series coordinator for the Santa Ynez Valley Concert Series, a forty-five year old organization which presents a plethora of internationally recognized classical musicians in the Santa Ynez Valley. In 2017, she was honored as Woman of the Year by the Santa Maria Times and Santa Ynez Valley News as an advocate for youth education and the performing arts.