Student Cantor Donna Mashadi started at TAI in June, 2008. She is bright, bubbly and enthusiastic, with a magnificent voice and the kind of "can-do" attitude that fits right in with TAI’s philosophy. She is a third year student at HUC’s School of Sacred Music, graduating in 2010. Her home is Southern California and she was in the pre-cantorial program at HUC-JIR in Los Angeles prior to coming to New York. She was graduated from California State University at Long Beach in 2002 with a BA in Vocal Performance and Music Education. She has a teaching credential and was a student teacher in musical theater and the arts in California. As a cantorial intern at Temple Shaaray Tefila in Manhattan her duties were similar to what she will be doing at TAI. She has also had choral experience with the Los Angeles Symphony. Not only does Donna have a gracious personality on the bima, she is especially well trained to work with the Hebrew School in preparing the Bar/Bat Mitzvah students.