Lynne Frederick is a graduate of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she received a master’s in music with a concentration in Music Therapy and Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, where she received a bachelor’s in Music Therapy with a minor in Psychology. She has worked with children with various abilities through work at the Kardon Institute / Settlement Music School (Philadelphia, PA), where she was responsible for creating and overseeing the Music Therapy Internship program. She worked at the Academy of Community Music (Fort Washington, PA), where she oversaw 15 music therapists and the data collection for music in the Head Start program. She also worked at the Center on Central (Paoli, PA), where she conducted music groups and individual sessions for children of all ages and abilities. She is currently the owner of Malvern School of Music, located in the Borough on King Street.
Lynne has volunteered extensively for the Borough of Malvern over the past 23 years. She is a 22-year member of the Malvern Historical Commission and held the positions of Co-Chair and Chair from 2006-2014, during which time she spearheaded the creation of the Historic Ordinance. She is also a 5-year member of the Malvern Planning Commission, having completed her Master Planner Certificate in 2016. She has served on other ad-hoc committees, including the Comprehensive Plan Task Force (2009), the Eastside Flats Task Force, and the ARPA Committee. Most recently, she was appointed to fill an open seat on Borough Council in August of 2022. Lynne believes that her knowledge of the history of the borough as well as her training for the present, along with her skills as a therapist, make her uniquely qualified as a candidate for Malvern Borough Council.
Lynne has 2 adult daughters and lives in the Borough with her 2 cats, Kaylee and Sophie.