I hold a PhD in Education from the University of British Columbia, and undergraduate and Masters degrees in Piano and Composition from the University of Victoria and University of British Columbia.

As a disabled scholar, educator, and musician, my work engages performance and reception as relational encounters that offer educative possibilities and limits for challenging aesthetic, cultural, and pedagogical norms in music.

I am a Field Editor, on disability issues, for the Public Philosophy Journal. In addition to research and teaching, I remain active as a freelance musician.