Education 

Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Education Boston University, Boston, MA; Dissertation: From Inherited Practices to Imagined Possibilities: Teacher Educator Agency in American Orff-Schulwerk Teacher Education; Supervisor: Dr.  Ann Marie Stanley, Director of the School of Music and Professor of Music Education, Penn State University

Master of Arts in Education University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN; Minnesota Teaching License, K-12 Instrumental and Classroom Music

Bachelor of Arts St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN; Majors: Music and Sociology/Anthropology, Concentration: American Racial & Multicultural Studies; Miles Johnson Scholarship in Music; Ensembles: St. Olaf Band (Vice President, trumpet), St. Olaf Orchestra (trumpet), Cantorei (soprano), Jazz I (trumpet), Early Music Singers (soprano)