GRAMMY Music Educator Award nominee Drummer / Percussionist Martin (pronounced mar-TEEN) Urbach is a Latine Immigrant, educator, activist and youth organizer. His work in the classroom is based on facilitating brave spaces for young folks to fall in love with music and to promote social justice through music making in their community.He holds a BA in jazz performance from the University of New Orleans, a MA in jazz arts from the Manhattan School of Music, an Advanced Certificate in Music Education from Brooklyn College and is currently a Doctoral candidate in Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center.Martin has been an educator in New York City since 2006. He has taught well over ten thousand children; from pre kindergarten to doctoral students. He has taught residencies for Urban Arts Partnership, Lincoln Center Institute, Marquis Studios, Bash The Trash, and Carnegie Hall. Currently he serves as music educator, Restorative Justice Dean of Students, Advisory curriculum liaison and 10th grade advisor at a Title 1 public school in New York City.As a music educator, Martin is a quarter finalist in the 2020 and 2021 Grammy Music Educator Award. As a Restorative Justice practitioner and youth organizer, Martin started a cohort of youth activists practicing restorative justice known as “Circle Keepers”. They have facilitated over 200 peer to peer peer mediations, students to staff conflict as well as presents bi weekly political education and social emotional teach-ins in their school. Additionally, they have presented workshops nationally for the Black Lives Matter at School NYC and National Networks and SXSW EDU 2023. Martin has presented workshops and keynotes on the intersections of social justice activism, music technology, music education and youth development at conferences such as the International Symposium of Music Education (ISME) in Baku, Azerbaijan (2018), the Association of Popular Music Education (APME) at Berklee College of Music (2016) and at New York University (2019), at the Freire50 conference at the University of South Carolina (2018), The Sustaining Peace Forum at Teachers College, Columbia University. In 2016, Martin started “Liberation Drum Circles", a community music group that engages youth in co-facilitating hands-on workshops for teaching and learning topics of oppression as well as liberation through the setting of a drum circle; by singing, chanting and drumming in community.