Creator/Editor-in-Chief Mindy Abovitz Mindy has a Masters in Media Studies and is a self-taught drummer/drum machine programmer. She has been drumming for 11 years and currently drums for Taigaa, Hot Box, Chica Vas, and More Teeth. She is a drum instructor at Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls and Vibe Songmakers. She started this magazine because we need it.

Designer Candice Ralph

Web Mistress Harlo Holmes  Harlo is a masters student at NYU Steinhardt’s Media, Culture, and Communication program. She does web design and development; sound design and engineering; videography and video production; and all sorts of crazy multimedia stuff. Harlo pours her remaining creative energy into making multimedia art under the name Lovers v. Haters; her work has been seen/heard/performed in many venues in New York and Boston.

Portland Correspondent Lisa Schonberg

LA Correspondent Nicole Turley

London Correspondent Laura Fares

Director of Marketing Dominika Ksel Dominika makes art, videos, documentaries, music and propaganda. She likes the idea of the ever expanding universe and its infinite potential. She is currently being tailored for her 3-piece pinstriped suit and is fiddling with her Electribe ESX 1.

Print Editor Liz Armstrong

Web Editor KatyAnn Gonzalez

Interns Camila Danger is the bomb. Really. Tom Tom loves everything about this woman. Model, writer, reviewer, go-getter, coffee maker, DJ, etc. A Keeper.

Gillian Avina Gillian is a guitar player, drummer, and classically trained violinist who hails from Portland, OR. She has taught drums at Girls Rock Camp and has been associated with camp for many years. She currently attends Frank Sinatra school of the Arts and is enrolled in NYU Paris for this coming fall semester.

Copy Editors Cathy Hsiao, Teri Duerr

Photographers Bek Andersen, Stefano Galli, Jee Young Sim, Jennifer Leigh Aschoff, Erin Nicole Brown, Rebecca Smeyne, Piper Ferguson, Aaron Wojack, Andrew Strasser, Martin Bahser, Meg Wachter, Ports Bishop, Dan Watkins, Bek Andersen, Maggie Owsley

Bloggers/Writers

Allie Alvarado Allie Alvarado is a Washington D.C. based singer, songwriter and producer. She lived and played music for many years in New York City, with releases on Brooklyn’s Social Registry label. Allie now performs under the moniker Painted Face and is currently working on her debut album, forthcoming in 2010.

Lisa Schonberg I will be curating the “One question, one drummer” interview series for Tom Tom – a series of brief interviews with female drummers, each accompanied by a portrait of the featured drummer.  It’s been exciting for Tom Tom to feature the work of visual artists who are admired by female drummers, and the artists themselves have been very much excited about the opportunity to portray these inspiring musicians.  I am presenting each drummer I interview with a choice of two interview topics — one on media representation, and the other on style & technique. I grew up a band geek in Staten Island, NY, and later moved to Olympia WA to study insects in grad school.  I currently live in Portland, OR, where I teach private drum students, work at Rock Camp, practice entomology, and play drums in Explode into Colors, Kickball, STLS, and Sielaff/Schonberg.

Temim Fruchter is a Brooklyn-based drummer who taught herself to play at the ripe old age of 26.  She played her first show only a few weeks after she picked up her first drum stick.  Now the drummer for The Shondes, she spends much of her time working on deepening her skills, building her chops, learning about driving the rhythm in a rock band, and writing and reading about different ways to bang on things.  Temim has spent a lot of time thinking about what it takes to be a confident and kick-ass gigging drummer when you didn’t quite expect that that’s what you were gonna be.  And she plans to write about some of that here.

sts I am sts, program director for the Portland, Oregon Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls and drummer in the band STLS.  Drummer 2 Drummer interviews feature an interview exchange between younger female drummers who may or may not know each other.  This will hopefully inspire and encourage girl drummers of all ages around the world–there are girls playing the drums everywhere!

Leslie Henkel Leslie curates the “Crash-Crash-Craft!” series, mostly because she is nosy and likes crafts/crafty people. This is also  why she is a member of “Bags For The People,” a rad non-profit that hosts bag-sewing workshops all over New York City (and now in Jamaica!), hates Garbage Island, reads your diary when you’re away, and sometimes sews drumstick bags at Tom Tom events just for fun. Leslie also writes a serialized cozy mystery zine set in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, starring hipsters, anarchist freegans, “Chad P.”, and super-sleuth Tight Pantsy Drew–who also editorializes over at A Mutual Respect.com!

Cathy Hsiao, Adam Katzman, Sara Magenheimer, Caryn Havlik, Melanie Glover, Alex Carulo, Bianca Russelburg, Adee Roberson, Michael Lowe,  Meg Ryan, Fiona Campbell, Caryn Havlik, Courtney Gillette,  Marisa Suarez-Orozco, FonLin Nyeu

Videographers Angela Cheng, Tiny Favorite, Alex Simon, Vicki Simon, Alex Carulo

PR Horse & Dragon

Thank you Vicki Simon, Our families, friends, readers, lovers