Christina T. Korn is the Director of Arts Programs with LA Promise Fund and has worked as a teaching artist for over ten years facilitating meaningful arts experiences for diverse learners in public school classrooms, museums, and private home settings. While maintaining a studio practice in painting, Christina has been dedicated to serving students through her work with the Hammer Museum, LACMA, and Urban Arts Partnership. She specializes in collaborating with classroom teachers to develop arts integrated lessons that expand student learning while affirming identity and supporting social emotional development.

As a lecturer with UCLA’s Visual and Performing Arts Education program, she prepares and mentors the future generation of teaching artists. In her work with LAPF’s ArtsMatter program, Christina creates media arts curriculum and connects students to community partners in order to establish career pathways for students from South L.A. to work in Los Angeles’ creative industries. Christina received a BFA in Art Education from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in affiliation with Tufts University where she got her start as a teaching artist at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Prior to joining the LA Promise Fund, he worked as the Community Engagement Coordinator for UCLA Arts’ Visual and Performing Arts Education (VAPAE) program. He is a multidisciplinary artist, arts educator, and fashion industry consultant. He has been an active volunteer in the nonprofit sector, most notably working with organizations such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

A first-generation UCLA alum, he graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in World Arts and Cultures, and a minor in Visual and Performing Arts Education (VAPAE); and received an A.A. in fashion design from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising.

Today, it is his life’s commitment to do all he can to dismantle the many obstacles that still prevent queer BIPOC youth from achieving their full potential. Working as an educator has been rewarding to him, especially by witnessing communities bonding, not just through a diaspora but rather by embracing the idea that they can be artists of meaning and consequence regardless of zip code or personal experiences.

Matt Reynolds has experience teaching animation and media art to a diverse range of learners: from San Fernando 5th graders in the Making Movies that Matter program, to Santa Monica retirees as a resident artist at the Camera Obscura Art Lab. Prior to joining LAPF, Matt worked for 6 years as an animation instructor for middle and high schoolers through a free after school arts program operated by the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP).

Reynolds received a B.A. in Art & Visual Culture from Bates College and an M.F.A. in Experimental Animation from CalArts. His animated short films have won awards at The San Francisco International Film Festival, The Anim’est International Animation Festival in Romania, and The Ann Arbor Film Festival, and have screened at such festivals as SXSW, AFI Fest, and The Annecy International Animation Film Festival. As a freelance animation director, he has produced work for such clients as Adult Swim, The Atlantic, TED Ed, and Spotify.

Alongside his career as an educator, Matt maintains a personal practice in sculpture, animation and comic art. He finds inspiration in LA architecture, science fiction, nature, and the tireless work of progressive community activists across Los Angeles

Beranger LeFranc is a Teaching Artist with the LA Promise Fund. She leads arts-based instruction in classrooms to promote creative and academic advancements in students. Teaching Artists also provide one-on-one coaching of teachers to support their ability to gain the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to deliver and design new media arts lesson plans. The goal is to build teachers’ confidence in using media arts-based strategies across the Media ArtsMatter curriculum.

Beranger joined the LA Promise Fund in August 2023. Prior to joining LAPF, she worked as a secondary art teacher for 7 years at Title I schools in Austin, Texas, and Richmond, Virginia; she was also selected for the role of Lead Secondary Art Teacher in her district for four years. Before teaching, Beranger worked for several nonprofit youth development organizations, coordinating summer camps, after-school programming, and outdoor education.

Beranger holds a B.F.A. in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, an M.A. in Community-based Art Education from The University of Texas at Austin, and teacher certification in EC-12 Art Education. Throughout her career, Beranger has always strived to be an active member of her local community. She collaborates with and supports like-minded individuals and local organizations that work in youth development, arts education, and visual art. Alongside her work as a teaching artist, she maintains a personal art practice in drawing, painting, and performance art. She draws inspiration from femininity, activism, and spirituality through the lens of a queer Jewish woman.

Raven is a second-generation Chicana artist and educator with deep family roots in East Los Angeles. Prior to joining LAPF, Sanchez was the Program Director at Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area where she led the launch of an arts based virtual program during the height of the pandemic. She has worked at the Juan R. Fuentes Gallery at Acción Latina in San Francisco’s Mission District, contributed to El Tecolote newspaper, and founded Whittier Levántate, an artist-run community project supporting artists in Whittier from 2018 - 2020. Raven serves as a visual arts instructor at LAMusArt and completed a 2023 Apprenticeship at Slanguage Studio under the mentorship of Artist, Mario Ybarra Jr.