Our Team

Meet the staff for the ECoSistema music and youth development program!

Kent Dutchersmith

Lead Teaching Artist

Boys & Girls Club of Goshen, Bashor Children’s Home

Mr. Kent is a Goshen native who has been teaching with ECoSistema since 2019.  Before that, Mr. Kent taught elementary music in the Goshen Schools System for 18 years. Mr. Kent is a multi-instrumentalist, with his primary instruments being the cello, string bass and the electric bass. He has played in classical, jazz, rock, folk, fiddle-tune, Latin, Irish and church music ensembles and has recorded 2 CDs with his family band, “Kentucky T. Dutchersmith and the Rubber Band.” Kent has soloed with the Maple City Orchestra twice on the nose flute and once on the typewriter!  As the ECoSistema Lead Teaching Artist at the Boys and Girls Club of Goshen, Mr. Kent teaches Song Circle, strings ensembles and private strings lessons.  He is also the primary private bass instructor for Goshen Community Schools and currently plays with the Maple City Orchestra, the Elkhart County Symphony and leads his church band, Faithful Bread.

Hillary Harder

Program Director

Goshen College Music Center, Boys & Girls Club of Goshen

Hillary Harder is the Program Director for ECoSistema and the Community School of the Arts. In this role she oversees operations for ECoSistema and CSA programs, teaches daily at the Boys & Girls Club of Goshen, and builds community partnerships with the goal of bringing music education to more kids and families. She also serves as adjunct faculty at Goshen College, teaching Building Community Through Music and Music with United Sound and co-leading two Study Service Term units in Selma, Alabama and Quito, Ecuador. Hillary previously taught music at Roosevelt STEAM Academy in Elkhart, Indiana where she was honored to be chosen as Elementary Teacher of the Year for Elkhart Community Schools in 2018. Hillary serves on the board of the Elkhart County Symphony and the Program Committee for the Tolson Center for Community Excellence; she is a member of the Camerata Singers and the Elkhart County Symphony Orchestra. Hillary lives in Elkhart with her husband, Micah Detweiler, their greyhound Magoo, and their two cats.

Sarah Miller

ECo Sings Instructor

Boys & Girls Club of Goshen

Sarah Miller is the director of ECo Sings, and new to ECoSistema this year. She is embarking on her first year of teaching K-4 Music & 3rd-4th grade science at Chamberlain Elementary School– right next door to the Club! Before that, she served as a permanent substitute teacher at Waterford Elementary. Sarah joined her first choir in third grade, but has been singing for as long as she can remember. Currently, she is a member of the Goshen Community Chorale. In addition to teaching, she also coaches Redhawk Unified Flag Football and Junior Varsity Softball at Goshen High School. In her free time, she enjoys spending time in the community with friends, collaging, or spending time with her cat, Arthur.