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My teaching style is guided by 4 Pillars:   ​Safety We learn best in environments where we feel safe. In my classes, I cultivate a healing environment designed to create a welcoming and loving space for all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, and race. I actively implement anti-racist curriculum, and attend Trauma-Informed Teaching and Social-Emotional Learning trainings often.    I recognize the privileges I have as an able-bodied, white, ci

Everyone is inherently musical.    From our first breaths on Earth, our heartbeats intrinsically connect us to music. Instruments are only extensions of the music we innately know.   As we are all linked through music, everyone has a fundamental right to accessible and inclusive musical experience. The Western European classical music tradition has long since excluded folks on the basis of gender, race, and class, and yet its study continues to dominate the modern landscape o

At seven years old, I attended a school assembly for the first time. Having just transferred from a tiny private school, third grade was a year of firsts for me: my first time in a public school, my first time in a class of more than five people, and my first time experiencing a live orchestra. On a cold October morning, I remember feeling annoyed when our teacher explained we’d be missing my favorite subject (reading) to attend an assembly. Why should I have to listen to som