Shana L. Redmond

1:00pm

Pompeian Room

Panel Discussion: "Music, Women, Diversity"

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4:30pm

Building 10 Conference Room 1

Music and Social Movements in the African Diaspora

Shana L. Redmond is the author of Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (NYU Press, 2014) and the forthcoming Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson. Her work has appeared in various journal, media, and literary publications including NPR, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, and Brick. She is Associate Professor of Musicology in the Herb Alpert School of Music and African American Studies at UCLA.

Kristi Brown-Montesano

1:00pm

Pompeian Room

Panel Discussion: "Music, Women, Diversity"

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3:30pm

Building 10 Conference Room 2

Women in Opera

Chair of the music-history faculty at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, Kristi Brown-Montesano is the author of The Women of Mozart’s Operas (University of California Press, 2007), a study of the female characters in the Da Ponte operas and The Magic Flute. An active “public musicologist,” she has been engaged by numerous organizations in Los Angeles, including the LA Opera, the Opera League of Los Angeles, the Mason House Concerts, and the Colburn Orchestra. She is especially thrilled to join the LA Phil’s “Upbeat Live” faculty this concert season. Learn more at kristibrownmontesano.com

Fredara Hadley

1:00pm

Pompeian Room

Panel Discussion: "Music, Women, Diversity"

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5:30pm

Building 10 Conference Room 1

Women and Music in Black America

Fredara Mareva Hadley specializes in African American music and popular music, investigating the ways in which African Americans create music that responds to and pushes the boundaries of established genre categories and how that music represents various realities of African American identities. In addition to her academic work, Hadley is the founder of Jooksi, a New York-based company that provides music education classes for the public and music-based walking tours of New York City. She teaches Introduction to African American Music at the Oberlin College and Conservatory.

Assal Habibi

4:30pm

Building 10 Conference Room 2

Music and Childhood Development

Dr. Assal Habibi is an Assistant Research Professor of Psychology at USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute. Along with Drs. Antonio and Hanna Damasio, she is the lead investigator of a 5-year longitudinal study investigating the effects of early childhood music training on the development of brain function and structure as well as cognitive, emotional, and social development. She is also a classically trained pianist, and has many years of musical teaching experience with children, which have always been a personal passion.

Jennie Gubner

3:30pm

Building 10 Conference Room 1

Music and Healthcare

Dr. Jennie Gubner is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington. Over the past two years, she has worked to design a service-learning course at IU called "“Music & Memory: Teaching Music & Dementia through Film” where students work in facilities certified with the nationwide organization Music & Memory℠ to create personalized playlists for individuals with memory loss. This course has received wide media attention and has produced over 15 publicly circulated short student-made films highlighting intergenerational encounters through music.

Shelby Williams-Gonzalez

3:30pm

Auditorium

Afro-Brazilian Dance Workshop

Shelby Williams-Gonzalez (choreographer / dancer) is a proud native Angelino, mom, wife, and company member of the national touring Afro-Brazilian dance company, Viver Brasil. As a member of the company for over 12years, Shelby has served as their Rehearsal Director and is currently the company’s contributing choreographer. Her most recent work with the company, “Revealed,” explored the intersection of traditional Orixa (Afro-Brazilian Deities) dance and current racial and social inequities resulting in over-policed communities and mass killings of black bodies both in the United States and Brazil. Shelby has also danced with LA-based groups such as Diana MacNeil and the Posthouse Dance Group, The Yorke Dance Project, and Louise Reichlin and Dancers. She has a Bachelor’s in Dance and Anthropology from UC Berkeley. While attending Berkeley she was a member of the Kendra Kimbrough Dance Ensemble, Patricia Reedy Dancers and Robert Moses’ Kin. Shelby completed the Silvestre Technique program in Salvador, Bahia, where she was certified as an instructor of the Brazilian based modern dance technique. As an arts educator, Shelby serves as the Development and Communications Director for artworxLA (formerly The HeArt Project), a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the arts to alternative high schools. As an artist, she draws from her diverse foundation in contemporary dance, martial arts, and traditional and contemporary Afro-Brazilian movement. 
 

Jessie Vallejo

1:00pm

Pompeian Room

Panel Discussion: “Women, Music, Diversity”

Dr. Jessie M. Vallejo is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Mariachi Director in Cal Poly Pomona’s Music Department. She is currently researching mariachi music performed outside Mexico and the United States. Dr. Vallejo has worked as an applied ethnomusicologist, co-producing, annotating, and providing photography for Smithsonian Folkways’ 2013 release ¡Así Kotama!: The Flutes of Otavalo, Ecuador. In addition to her research and teaching, she is an active freelance violinist in the Los Angeles area.