Online via Zoom

Mia will be facilitating activities and conversations around normativity and how it affects our marginalized students. We will uncover what makes us marginalized, the intersections of identities, and how we are all impacted by what has been deemed "normal." Together, we will unpack how to combat these prejudices in and out of the classroom. This workshop will be a 60 minute presentation, followed by a 30 minute Q&A session.

Mia Ibrahim is a queer, Lebanese high school music educator and department head in the south Bronx. She graduated with her Master’s in Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and has a long history of working with marginalized communities, starting with a music therapy apprenticeship at rehabilitation centers and brain injury centers in the Bay Area of California. Other philanthropic endeavors include volunteer lacrosse coaching for CityLax helping those in the community who cannot afford the sport and volunteering with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project assisting TGNCI and LGBT+ community members with legal services and protection. Her work with Gender Sexuality Alliances in the Bronx coupled with her vast music field experiences ranging from Carnegie Hall to principal clarinetist and orchestra manager of the Downtown Symphony Orchestra have all helped round her into a knowledgeable asset in the progressive music education community. Learn more at her website here: https://miaibrahim.wixsite.com/musicedjustice