Black History Month Alumni Spotlight

I am honored to be recognized by my alma mater, Merit School of Music, where I was a student in the tuition-free conservatory every Saturday from 8am-4pm from 8th-12th grades.

As a Merit student, I learned piano, viola, classical voice, orchestra, opera, choir, string quartet, music theory, aural skills, composition, conducting, and more.

Equally important, I learned skills that strategically positioned me to have a choice-filled life.

And now it comes full circle as I proudly serve on the board. Many thanks to my lifelong mentor, Duffie Adelson, for her unwavering support of me and scores of other Merit students for more than four decades, and to my newer friend and colleague, Charles Grode, for his thoughtful and strategic leadership as current executive director.