Professional Experience
K-12, Higher Education & Community Music
August 2021 - Present
University of Hartford
Assistant professor of early childhood and elementary music education, The Hartt School
June 2020 - June 2021
University of Washington
Pre-Doctoral Instructor,
Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Instructor for PORT365 “From Samba to Hip-Hop: A Portrayal of Brazilian Society through Music” through an anti-racist lens and focused on Critical Race Theory.
Established partnerships with Afro-Brazilian community music settings (samba batucada, maracatu de baque virado and carioca funk communities in Brazil, and capoeira angola in the diaspora).
September 2017 - June 2020
University of Washington
Graduate Teaching Assistant,
Music Education
K-5 General Music Specialist at Laurelhurst Elementary (University of Washington “laboratory” school)
Created partnerships with community musicians, visiting artists, and culture-bearers (Japan, Iran, Puerto Rico, Ghana, Zimbabwe)
Applied ethnomusicology through World Music Pedagogy, with a focus on creativity
Guest lecturer for MUSED 440 (Music for Children) and MUSED 452 (Ethnomusicology in the Schools)
May 2016 - June 2017
West Virginia University
Lecturer, Music Education
Instructor for General Music Methods, Materials, and Technological Applications
Instructor for General Music Laboratory
Instructor for Recorder Module/Woodwind Ped
Instructor for Music in the Elementary Classroom
Part of the planning committee and faculty of the Smithsonian Certification in World Music Pedagogy
August 2014 - April 2016
West Virginia University
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Music Education
Instructor for Music in the Elementary School and Recorder Module/Woodwind Ped
Teaching Assistant for General Music Methods, Materials, and Technological Applications;
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Music Education
Teaching Assistant for Ethnic Percussion (Brazilian Ensemble)
January 2011 - June 2014
American-Brazilian Association Global School
PreK–8 General Music Teacher
Developed the bilingual General Music program (Portuguese-English)
Developed the music curriculum for the Primary Years Program’s Program of Inquiry (International Baccalaureate)
Annually prepared two project-based multicultural concerts for preK, K-3, 4-6, 7-8.
2009-present
Community Teaching
2019-Present: Co-leader of Collective Songwriting Project at the Yakama Nation Tribal School (Check out this video)
2019-Present: Founder/director of Baque Maré, Seattle's maracatu de baque virado ensemble
2015-2017: Director of the Morgantown Community Orchestra
2009-2011: Community music facilitator at Hospital das Clínicas and Hospital Oswaldo Cruz (music and movement for children with cancer undergoing chemotherapy and children with sickle-cell anemia)