• Supervise music therapy professionals individually and through the MT Mentor community• Provide continuing music therapy education (CMTE) courses and small business and marketing consultations• Plan & facilitate music therapy and adaptive yoga groups for clients with co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns• Directed a national roster music therapy internship program and supervised interns and practicum students• Interviewed as part of a panel on MPR News radio and podcast in July of 2020 on “The Therapeutic Power of Music”• Presented “Defining (and Living Out) Your Core Values, Mission, and Vision” as a 3-hour CMTE for the 2021 American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) National Conference and as a 2-hour CMTE for the Central Texas Music Therapy Association• Presented webinars in 2020, 2021, and 2022 through Music Therapy Ed, MusicWorx Inc., the Music Therapy Association of Minnesota, the VA Healthcare System, and Sam Houston State University on “Sustainable Self-Care Strategies for the Real World” • Co-presented a 3-hour CMTE “How to Build a Great Business in the Great Lakes” for the 2022 Great Lakes Region (GLR) AMTA Conference• Presented a 3-hour CMTE “Defining (and Living Out) Your Core Values, Mission, and Vision” for the 2021 GLR & Midwestern Region (MWR) AMTA Conference• Presented a 3-hour CMTE “You Can’t Pour from an Empty Cup: Sustainable Self-Care Strategies for the Real World”, co-presented a 3-hour CMTE “Mindfulness, Music, and Mandala: Cultivating Self-Compassion around Privilege and Bias”, and co-presented a concurrent session “From Inquiry to Internship: The Students’ Guide to Success” for the 2020 AMTA National Conference• Planned & taught adaptive music lessons and private and small group yoga at the Joyful Noises Studio• Planned & facilitated a music therapy-based grief support group for Easter Lutheran Church[Please request CV for full list of presentations and guest lectures.]

• Planned and facilitated both small and large group music therapy sessions that included re-creative, receptive, composition, and improvisational music therapy methods; concert choir and tone chime choir rehearsals and performances; worship services; and adaptive yoga groups for clients ranging in age from their 20’s to their 90’s with diverse medical and psychiatric diagnoses

• Taught classroom music for approximately 18 kindergarten through fifth grade classes at Minnewashta Elementary School• Collaborated with other music teachers to plan and direct approximately 10 performances annually• Presented at the Minnesota Music Educators Association’s annual convention with district elementary staff twice on the use of technology in teaching classroom music• Co-led the Responsive Classroom Committee, meeting with paraprofessional staff monthly, creating and revising “Our Beliefs” and presenting these concepts to staff, students and parents• Served as Cooperating Teacher for multiple student teachers from the University of Minnesota-Mankato and Crown College

• Researched, organized and implemented fourth and fifth grade boys’ and girls’ choirs for approximately 100 students in the Minnetonka School District, communicating with parents, colleagues and administrators as well as the directors of various other children’s choirs in the community• Planned and directed approximately 10 winter and spring concerts, school tours and various community performances• Presented at the Minnesota Music Educators Association’s annual convention on the formation of children’s choirs

• Planned and coordinated all aspects of the fifth and sixth grade Honor Choir for the North Central ACDA Convention, including the audition listening session, volunteers and all communication with the singers, their parents and families, the director and the rest of the convention staff

• Planned and led a variety of inservices, chaired a general music textbook adoption and coordinated district-wide elementary, middle and high school choir and band rehearsals and performances• Taught classroom music for approximately 29 first through fifth grade classes and beginning band and choir at Desert Willow Elementary School• Coordinated and directed approximately 11 annual multi-grade/grade level musicals, choir and band performances and district and community performances• Worked with classroom teachers to coordinate cross-curricular lessons and activities, including a second grade literacy night• Served as Team Leader for the Specialist Team and Cooperating Teacher for a student teacher• Was nominated for Teacher of the Year 2004