Brent C. Talbot is associate professor and coordinator of music education at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. He is also artistic director of the Gettysburg Children’s Choir and the founding director of Gamelan Gita Semara. His teaching and scholarship, informed by his many travels as well as his experiences as a school music educator, examine power, discourse, and issues of social justice in varied settings for music learning around the globe. He is the editor of Marginalized Voices in Music Education (2018) and author of Gending Raré: Children’s Songs and Games from Bali (2017) and Finding a Way (2012). Brent serves on the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and is the associate editor of Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education. For more go to www.brentctalbot.com.

Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, is an associate professor of Africana studies at Gettysburg College, where he is also the director of peace and justice studies and an affiliate of the Education, Globalization Studies, and Public Policy Departments. He received his doctorate in international educational development and peace education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is an associate editor of Anthropology and Education Quarterly. His research and teaching interests are school violence, educational inequity, mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution, education for social change, postcolonialism, masculinities, human rights, and restorative justice. He was a visiting scholar at the Advanced Consortium for Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity at the Earth Institute and is one of the recipients of the inaugural Emerging Scholar Award from the African Diaspora Special Interest Group of the Comparative and International Education Society.