Linda Richter Brady

Executive Director

Linda Richter Brady is Executive Director of Kansas City Youth Jazz.  She has provided leadership to KCYJ from the time she and her husband, Leon founded the organization in 2001, and promotes the program’s growth, vision, and mission in the community.  During her leadership, over 800 students have participated in the program, benefiting from the development of both music and life skills.  Mrs. Brady is from Great Bend, Kansas and a seven-year veteran of the national champion Argonne Rebels Drum & Bugle Corps program.  She is a music educator and earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music from Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS and a diploma in Band Instrument Repair from Western Iowa Tech, Sioux City, IA.