Darci Gamerl

Darci Gamerl

Darci Gamerl Darci Gamerl is a Canadian-American oboist, English hornist, composer, filmmaker, and arts leader based in Omaha. She co-founded the internationally award-winning Bel Canto Duo with cellist David Downing. Her interdisciplinary work unites music, film, ecology, and NeuroArts to strengthen community and support well-being. A TEDxOmaha speaker and Nebraska…
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Joanie Calem

Joanie Calem

Joanie Calem Joanie Calem began her performing career in Israel in 1983, singing folksongs in Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish, Arabic and English, and telling Middle Eastern folk stories for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. She simultaneously worked for local NGOs supporting Jewish-Arab rapprochement and often used her music in her…
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Mahoganee Amiger

Mahoganee Amiger

Mahoganee Amiger With a career spanning over 35 years in the music arts industry as a performing artist and songwriter, now a Certified Teaching Artists through the South Carolina Arts Commission in the field of music, member of the Recording Academy (Grammys) as well as having been a GrammyU mentor,…
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Emma’s Revolution

Emma’s Revolution

Emma's Revolution Pat Humphries and Sandy Opatow have performed at protests for peace, women’s rights, labor rights, environmental protection, and other progressive causes. They have composed songs for: School of the Americas Watch; Code Pink, the Refugee and Immigrant Women’s Network; Black Lives Matter; and many more. Most recently, the…
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Zuly Inirio

Zuly Inirio

Zuly Inirio Dr. Zuly E. Inirio, DMA, LSW is a soprano, Creative Producer, scholar, and cultural strategist whose work lives at the intersection of art, community building, and social transformation. She weaves together performance, storytelling, advocacy, and organizing to create experiences that foster connection, belonging, and cultural liberation. As Founder…
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Theresa Koon

Theresa Koon

Theresa Koon Theresa Koon’s career began as a singer, pianist and composer-arranger, performing in wide-ranging styles from Classical to Cabaret to Crossover Music. Highlights included Counter-culture Vaudeville Shows, touring with The Flying Karamozov Brothers, Jim Page, Faith Petric, dADa, and others, alongside straight gigs with Portland Opera, Arizona Opera, Oregon…
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Sarah-Anjali Arabolu

Sarah-Anjali Arabolu

Sarah-Anjali Arabolu Sarah-Anjali is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter, who is embracing the power of music as a guiding force. Shaped by the empowering, unifying, and improvisational spirit of jazz, folk, and world music – Sarah-Anjali's intention is to offer insight on how we can heal. For Sarah-Anjali, music is…
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Simon Tam

Simon Tam

Simon Tam Simon Tam is an author, musician, activist, and self-proclaimed troublemaker. He is best known as the founder and bassist of The Slants, the Asian American dance rock band that won a landmark case at the U.S Supreme Court in 2017 to help expand civil liberties for marginalized groups.…
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Paolo Dumancas

Paolo Dumancas

Paolo Dumancas Paolo is a jazz trombonist, computer engineer, and the Co-Founder/Executive Director of ATX Artists for Social Impact. A Filipino immigrant raised in South Florida, Paolo studied Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University before moving to Austin in 2022. He is an active member of the city’s arts community and…
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Marie-Isabelle Pautz

Marie-Isabelle Pautz

Marie-Isabelle Pautz Marie-Isabelle Evangeline Pautz is a second-generation culture bearer. She grew up immersed in Louisiana French, bartering economies, and folkways with her grandparents, who lived across the street from her. Since 2002, Marie-Isabelle has led programs and initiatives at EarthShare Gardens, Lafayette Hurricane Survivors Coalition, Center for Restorative Approaches,…
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