We are pleased to welcome Mallory Alekna to the Augsburg Music Department in a tenure-track position in Music, Human Development, and Learning. Mallory is completing her PhD at Arizona State University and holds an MM in music education from Indiana University – Bloomington. She has public school experience in instrumental, general, and choral music and has worked with programs providing arts learning in communities. Her PhD dissertation is on access, equity, and inclusion among music majors, and she previously completed a study on recruitment of persons of color into university music programs.