My broad experience as a leader, educator and entrepreneur includes work in community education, PK-12 education, and higher education. In each context, the focus of my work is on accessible arts education, educational equity, and preparing students to claim and express their full identity, while also connecting, empathizing and creating in a diverse world.
The intentional deficiencies and systematic inequities of the U.S. educational system negatively impacts all students, not only the intended targets of oppression. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. so elegantly stated, “No one is free until we are all free.”
The intentional deficiencies and systematic inequities of the U.S. educational system negatively impacts all students, not only the intended targets of oppression. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. so elegantly stated, “No one is free until we are all free.”
As an arts educator, my work to address and dismantle these injustices encompasses:
My professional experience as an arts education leader includes professional development and curriculum design. I have presented to my peers and students on various topics, including music and race, opera history, anti-racism pedagogy, and cultural competency among others. I have designed curriculum on a range of subject areas: music theory, music history, composition/songwriting/music production, lyric diction, vocal pedagogy, creativity, and cultural studies.
I recently contributed a chapter to a book on innovative curricula, “Engaging Pedagogies for Diverse Learners: Tools for Discovery and Development." My chapter is entitled: "My American Story: A Storytelling and Songwriting Project for Social Change." It explores the music curriculum I designed which guides college students in telling their American story in song. The book is edited by Sarah Noonan, Professor Emerita at University of St. Thomas, and will be published by Rowman & Littlefield Education in 2023.
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- re-envisioning arts curriculum
- broadening the repertoire which performing arts students study and perform
- flattening the traditional hierarchy within each arts discipline
- expanding the canon and exploring multiple cultural traditions and genres
- programming a wider diversity of works
- embracing change and leveraging new technology
- creating welcoming, accessible classroom, studio and performance environments
- creating accessible instructional materials, classroom learning, and performing experiences, and
- providing students with the tools, training, knowledge, and support to create new works
My professional experience as an arts education leader includes professional development and curriculum design. I have presented to my peers and students on various topics, including music and race, opera history, anti-racism pedagogy, and cultural competency among others. I have designed curriculum on a range of subject areas: music theory, music history, composition/songwriting/music production, lyric diction, vocal pedagogy, creativity, and cultural studies.
I recently contributed a chapter to a book on innovative curricula, “Engaging Pedagogies for Diverse Learners: Tools for Discovery and Development." My chapter is entitled: "My American Story: A Storytelling and Songwriting Project for Social Change." It explores the music curriculum I designed which guides college students in telling their American story in song. The book is edited by Sarah Noonan, Professor Emerita at University of St. Thomas, and will be published by Rowman & Littlefield Education in 2023.
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