Allison Adrian is an ethnomusicologist, particularly interested in the relationships between music and community building. She is currently Assistant Professor of Music, Women’s Studies and Critical Studies of Race & Ethnicity at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN. She was recently awarded a 2015-2016 Fulbright Fellowship to study indigenous music in Southern Ecuador. She is co-editing Voicing Girlhood in Popular Culture: Music, Performance, Activism with Jacqueline Warwick, a critical anthology to be published in the Routledge Series in Popular Music.