I co-founded ITAC in 2012—it is the first and largest global network of artists who work in schools and communities to create social impact. Join it; build this field!

As a Founding Advisor and Faculty Member, I help AIM advance the global field of music for social impact toward its full potential.

I co-founded CEL in 2012 in Vermont, where we built a statewide faculty of teaching artists who can maximize creativity in schools and communities. The new NETAC / New England Teaching Artist Collaborative builds the regional capacity for teaching artists to design and lead “thriving community projects.”

This 2023 book of mine is the first book about the field for those who don’t already know it. Translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch and soon Portuguese. The 5,000 New Advocates project has introduced thousands of readers around the world to the field, or deepened their connection to it.

I was the Founding Publisher (still an editor) of the free monthly publication that connects the hundreds of music for social change programs around the world.

I’m on the Board of this AmeriCorps teaching artist service year that places recent arts program graduates in U.S. public schools.