Co-Founder: Liz Stookey Sunde

As the daughter of Noel “Paul” Stookey (of the 1960’s folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary), Elizabeth Stookey Sunde spent her childhood surrounded by music artists who dedicated themselves and their music to contemporary causes, and she witnessed the profound capacity of that music to transform audiences.

This experience fueled her desire to become a changemaker herself. For more than twenty-five years, she has consulted with a variety of large and small nonprofit organizations, helping them conceive and implement creative solutions to their communications, organizational, and fundraising challenges.

As Music to Life’s Co-Founder and Executive Director, Sunde guides Music to Life's national team of advisors and connects with the most influential multi-genre activist artists of our time to develop music-driven programming that supports human rights, equality, freedom and justice, and revitalizes our communities.

Singer/songwriter Noel Paul Stookey has been altering both the musical and ethical landscape of this country and the world for decades—both as the “Paul” of the legendary Peter, Paul and Mary and as an independent musician who passionately believes in bringing the spiritual into the practice of daily life. At the 1963 March on Washington when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, Peter, Paul and Mary delivered the compelling “If I Had a Hammer” and “Blowin’ in the Wind”. Stookey’s sound has been shaped by huge cities, as well as the smallest hamlets of the Heartland, housing projects, coastal Maine villages, towns up and down the Mississippi, and by his search for a common language that enables everyone no matter their origins and experiences to communicate with each other and celebrate the mystery of life. Funny, irreverently reverent, thoughtful, compassionately passionate, Stookey’s voice and passion for social change is known all across this land.