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Dan McGinnis, Studio Teacher/Welfare Worker
 
BIOGRAPHY:
Daniel Edward McGinnis is a rare breed -  a third-generation Californian, he was born in Santa Monica and raised in Woodland Hills.  Dan received his Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984, and for ten years he worked as a technical editor; first for a naval engineering firm, and then for an aerospace company, working on such projects as the space shuttle main engine and space station power system.

In 1987, Dan took a hiatus to study business for a semester in London and by 1995 he had obtained his first teaching credential from Chapman University in Orange, California.  After a couple years working for the LAUSD, Dan embarked on his present career as a California Studio Teacher.  He has been the set teacher on a wide variety of work assignments that have included print photography, commercials, music videos, live performance, voice for animation, television, and film.  He has worked at studios and locations throughout Southern California, as well as in Munich, Tokyo, and the Mexican Riviera.  Dan has been married to Juli for 23 years and has a daughter, Morgan, a freshman in college, and a son, Corey, a junior in high school.


 
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