Emilie Amrein is Associate Professor of Music, Director of Choral Studies, and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of San Diego where she conducts the USD Choral Scholars and teaches courses on the intersection of music education and social justice movements, community music, and changemaking.

Emilie is the co-artistic director of Common Ground Voices / La Frontera, a bi-national community music project that aims to build relationships and understanding across political, demographic, and perceptual borders as an exercise of non-violence. She is the Executive Producer of The Choral Commons, a media platform that provides a space for singing communities to realize the liberatory potential of the ensemble as a site of radical imagining.

Emilie is coauthor of the forthcoming book, Empowering Song: Music Education from the Margins, to be published by Routledge in 2022. She contributed to Wisdom, Wit, and Will: Women Choral Conductors on Their Art, and to Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir (Vol. 2-3). As a speaker, she has presented her work for dozens of professional organizations, including the National Collegiate Choral Organization, Chorus America, the American Choral Director’s Association, the College Music Society, and the National Youth Leadership Council.