Stephanie Heriger holds a B.A., magna cum laude, in Music from Dickinson College and an M.A. in Historical Musicology from the University of Michigan, where she was also a Ph.D. candidate. She has taught general humanities courses at Wayne State University and music history and appreciation classes as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Michigan, and has presented nationally on arts-integrated teaching practice and various popular music topics. Before coming to Cleveland, Stephanie taught for the New Orleans’ Recovery School District as an elementary special education inclusion teacher, post-Katrina, where she actively worked to integrate the arts into her own core-curriculum teaching. Stephanie has worked alongside both music and visual arts organizations in New Orleans, Southeast Michigan and her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A trained pianist and singer, she is also an active performer.