About Parents Who Rock

Parents Who Rock is an association of musicians based in Montclair, NJ, who contribute their time and talents to benefit local not-for-profit organizations. Over the past three years, fundraising events featuring the solo artists, combos, and bands of PWR have supported the Mountainside Hospital Breast Cancer Education Center, the Montclair Rape Crisis Center, and the Montclair Public Schools Developmental Learning Center (DLC), among others.

Board of Directors:

• Alma Schneider, Founder
  
  
• Brian Saltzman, Secretary and Treasurer
  
  
• Leslie Kunkin, Director

If you would like to participate in, sponsor or attend Parents Who Rock activities, please contact Alma Schneider, alma@parentswhorock.com.

The new CD, “Go Play Outside,” was recorded primarily at the PWR Fall Kickoff, in the Schneider-Saltzman backyard on the gorgeous afternoon of Sept. 8, 2007.

Proceeds from CD sales help fund Montclair’s All Children’s Playground, an outdoor space with universal access, currently scheduled to open in 2008 at Edgemont Park. For more information about the playground, contact Lily Vakili at livakili@verizon.net.

A special thank you to O'Melveny and Meyers Law Firm for helping us become an LLC and an official Non-Profit Organization.

Alma Schneider

In 2005 Alma combined her love of music and background in community organizing to found Parents Who Rock, in order to help parents re-connect with their musical past through organized performances for charity.

Prior to that, Alma worked as a Social Worker in a New York City settlement house, and in private practice as a therapist. Alma holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, and a Masters Degree in Social Work from Hunter College.

Brian Saltzman

Brian has twenty years of business experience with a focus on sales and marketing, and currently works in the sales performance consulting field, advising major corporations on sales strategy and skill development.

Brian holds a Bachelors Degree in International Politics from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Leslie Kunkin

Leslie received her Bachelors Degree in Liberal Arts from Brooklyn College and a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School. She worked as an attorney in Manhattan, specializing in medical malpractice litigation, prior to taking on the full time job of raising her daughter.

James Feinberg

James Feinberg was born on November 12, 1997 in New York City. He now lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his parents and little sister, Lily, and goes to Hillside School.

He is currently the President of the Kids' Division of Parents Who Rock, a Montclair musical organization, and the writer and creator of the column Grandkid's Eye View in 50+ Senior News. He enjoys reading, writing, the Internet, cooking and skiing.