Our Board of Directors

Teresa Meyer Calvert (Board Chairperson)

Teresa is a Senior Analyst for the City of San José. She is highly respected for her professionalism and her diverse range of organizational skills gathered from working with government officials, department heads, peers, residents, and customers.

She is known for taking initiative and offering innovative solutions to complex problems. She thrives in fast-paced environments, and possesses the analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills required to get nearly any job done.

Teresa also comes to the RAP board with a significant amount of nonprofit board experience. She served on the Vivace Youth Chorus board for a number of years and is still a strong supporter of that organization.

Jason Brittsan (Treasurer & Founding Member)

Jason has been singing since he was 6 years old and as he grew, so did his interest in classical and choral music. He sang in choir, played in band, studied voice and piano privately, and went on to study voice at Millikin University. Jason has more than 2 decades of experience working in the software industry as a tester, developer, and project/program manager on commercial operating systems. In addition to singing Jason is known for helping performing arts organizations get the most out of technology.

Prior to his time with Resounding Achord, Jason served in the roles of Technology Consultant, Vice President, Acting Treasurer, and President of the Board of Directors of the Seattle Choral Company.  During his time with the SCC, he planned and implemented several initiatives to improve efficiency and reduce expenses through technology.  He also helped to implement a plan to repay organizational debt.

Miyuki Mori (Member at Large)

Miyuki grew up in Japan and moved to San Jose in 1999 with her family. She attended De Anza College earning a Massage Therapy certification, which became her first carrier in the United States. While working as a CAMTC certified massage therapist, she started taking voice classes and discovered her love for singing and making harmony.

When Resounding Achord choir started in 2013, Miyuki was accepted despite being a novice singer. The welcoming and encouraging culture of the group nurtured her growth as a choir singer. She sang with the group till 2019, but hopes to return as a singer to the group in the near future. Over the last 10 years, Miyuki has expanded her knowledge of choral singing and choral conducting extensively. Since 2019 she has been the director of the Youth Choir at the Anna Poklewski Academy of Music in Fremont, CA.

Miyuki considers Resounding Achord to be her musical home. Miyuki joined RAP’s board in 2024 and is now exploring how she can best support this organization as a board member. Her dream is to develop programs that will spread harmony within communities through musical harmony.

Molly Shaw (Secretary)

Molly grew up in Livermore, California, where she studied piano from the age of 6 until 17 with Eugene Masluk, who placed a huge emphasis on sight-reading and sight-singing. Molly played the oboe in the Livermore High School orchestra as well as in the LHS Honor Band. She was also the accompanist for various choirs and soloists at school, and played in many pit orchestras in the Livermore community as the pianist or an oboist.

While still in high school, her first job was playing piano accompaniment for voice classes at Chabot College. At UC Berkeley, Molly studied languages, botany, anthropology, and geology, ending up with a degree in physical geography. She also sang in the University Chorus as well as the Collegium Musicum. Molly was also an accompanist in solo recitals and competitions at Berkeley.

After college, Molly followed her boyfriend to Ithaca, New York, where she worked part-time as a cartographer with the EPA, and part-time as the pianist for the Cornell University Theater Department, playing for musical productions, chamber-music classes, and ballet classes.

Molly has two single-subject teaching credentials: music and science. She was the music teacher at New Brighton Middle School in Capitola, CA, for 5 years, before switching to science, which she has been teaching at NBMS since 2004. In 2015, she finished her doctorate at UCSC in science education. Molly is also a lecturer at UCSC in the education department. In addition to middle-school teaching, Molly has been the union president in her district for several years. She is also a uniformed volunteer at Henry Coe State Park.