About

Co-Director

Liz Tyndorf has been married for 17 years and is the mother of twin sons Owen and Griffin. She spent 20+ years in corporate sales and marketing specifically working in the medical device industry. She currently works as a marketing consultant on a part-time basis. Her lifelong passion has been volunteering through philanthropic organizations starting with Girl Scouts in 1975 and she has consistently been involved with numerous national and local philanthropic organizations throughout her life. 

As a mother of teenage sons, Liz hoped to find a mothers and sons volunteer group specific to Hermosa Beach or South Bay area of Los Angeles, California. Her goal was to spread her love of volunteerism to her sons throughout their high school years. She was surprised that there were so few groups in existence with the type of commitment to service that her family was looking for, and most of those had to turn families away every year. She collaborated with her dear friend Katherine O’Connor and sought advice and counsel from another local boys volunteer group who graciously shared their information. Hermosa Hermanos was born in March 2022 and is growing annually to boys in Hermosa Beach or who are graduates of Hermosa Schools. Their hope is to include as many boys who qualify and to collaborate with their team of Moms to provide interesting and rewarding volunteer opportunities for high school boys representing multiple high schools.  

Founded in 2022 by Hermosa Beach mothers Katherine O’Connor and Liz Tyndorf to provide a 4-year commitment of service to boys in grades 9-12 who are Hermosa Beach residents (or graduates of HBCSD), regardless of their high school choice. 

The charter members of Hermosa Hermanos, Class of 2026 is comprised of 25 Freshmen boys from Mira Costa High School, Redondo Union High School and Bishop Montgomery High School.

Mothers partner with their sons to run the club while the sons volunteer. Boys learn to manage their time, communicate, belong to a group, meet local non-profit community members, gain a deeper connection to Hermosa Beach and develop a lifelong love of service.

Co-Director

 I am honored to co-chair Hermosa Hermanos with my dear friend Liz Tyndorf. My parents taught me early on the importance of giving back and volunteer work has played an important role in my life ever since.  Sharing Hermosa Hermanos with my son is so important to me and is the next stage of my lifelong passion and commitment to volunteerism and child development.  I have dedicated my adult life to the welfare of children from working as a court appointed child advocate for the Children’s Courts of Los Angeles, to working at UCLA in the psychology department to support children prenatally exposed to drugs and alcohol and their adoptive families.  I also worked at Redondo Union High School in the Special Education department where I helped integrate special needs students into typical classroom settings.  It was also my honor to have been the founder and director of Smarty Pants Academy in Hermosa Beach where children in our community came before and/or after school for tutoring and enrichment classes. 

Thank you so much for your interest in our organization and we are so very happy to have you join us.