Rachel Gibson is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Education at Westfield State University. Prior to her current position she taught elementary music and choir for 15 years. She has trained in the Orff and Kodály approaches and is an instructor for Kodály summer institutes. During a ten-month sabbatical in Guatemala and Nicaragua, she lived in several communities and engaged in song collection, research, and Spanish language study. She received a Fulbright Global Scholar Award to teach and conduct research at the Universidad de Málaga in Spain. She is also a national and international clinician and presents workshops on global music, folkloric dance, and music pedagogies.