Meet The Team

The Music Education Student Association is an organization here at Western that focuses on bringing people together through their love of music education. Our workshops provide guidance towards the path of becoming teachers, and what difficulties one might face as a future teacher. 

MESA is an amazing way to get involved with music education and learning. We help provide ways for students at Western in the music faculty to learn even more about teaching music. We promote other music education conferences, such as OMEA, and we run our own conference at Western! We also run events during the year where we are able to express our love for music education and help keep everyone connected! 

MESA is an important part of the music faculty because it provides great opportunities for students going into the education stream, or students just interested in joining in, to learn more about education, music, and listen to some awesome speakers give their take on teaching and music!

Karen Hu - Vice President

Iris Janssen - President

Katie Vermeeren - Vice President

Emma Deinum - External Outreach Executive

Callista Laffrenier - Internal Outreach Executive

Amy Dimitrov - Fundrasing Executive

Erin Bartlett - Events Coordinator

Melosa Wang - Events Coordinator

Evin Chaves - Promotions Coordinator

Michael Hegge - Promotions Coordinator

Jennifer Rentner - 4th Year Rep

David Levy - 4th Year Rep

Manuel Thomas - 3rd Year Rep

Ricky Chee - 3rd Year Rep

Alex Rozenburg - 2nd Year Rep

Toshi Kawabe - 2nd Year Rep

Janice Wong - 1st Year Rep

Tammy Tran - 1st Year Rep

Emma Butler - 1st Year Rep