Emilie Amrein is a scholar, artist, and activist whose professional activities resist and unsettle the boundaries of academic disciplines. They locate their work in community practice, drawing on the revolutionary wisdom of abolitionist, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist organizers and freedom dreamers from the Global Majority. Currently, Emilie is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of San Diego, where they teach 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. Emilie is coauthor of the book, Empowering Song: Music Education from the Margins, published by Routledge in 2022. As a speaker, Emilie has presented at the national meetings of the National Collegiate Choral Organization, Chorus America, the American Choral Directors Association, the College Music Society, and the National Youth Leadership Council.