Dr. André de Quadros is a professor of music at Boston University with affiliations in African, African American & Black Diaspora, American, Asian, Jewish, Muslim studies, prison education, and Forced Migration. As an artist, scholar, and human rights activist, he has worked in over 40 countries in the most diverse settings including professional ensembles, projects with prisons, psychosocial rehabilitation, refugees, and victims of sexual violence, torture, and trauma. His work crosses race and mass incarceration, peacebuilding, forced migration, LGBTQ+ folx, and Islamic culture. He directs choirs and choral projects in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the United States, Israel and the Arab world, and the Mexico-US border. He has held major leadership positions such as Director of Music Performance at Monash University in Australia, Artistic Director of the Tanglewood Institute, and Director of (BU) Boston University’s School of Music. At BU, He initiated the world’s first online graduate program in music education. He has numerous research grants and publications to his credit including nine books, more than 50 choral editions, and several book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. In 2019, he was a Distinguished Academic Visitor at the University of Cambridge. Among his many honors and awards is an honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne.