CHAMWINO CONNECT BOARD
CHAMWINO CONNECT VOLUNTEER BOARD & STAFF
LEADERSHIP
DR. PATRICIA SHEHAN CAMPBELL
CHAIR
Patricia Shehan Campbell, chair of the Chamwino Connect board, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. She is published on topics of World Music Pedagogy, the sustainability of music cultures through education, and children’s music, including Music, Education and Diversity, Songs in Their Heads, and Global Music Cultures. She is co-author of articles with Kedmon Mapana on music in Tanzania. She is educational consultant to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the Alan Lomax recordings (Association for Cultural Equity), and the Global Jukebox.
DR. RAMONA HOLMES
CO-CHAIR
Ramona Holmes is Professor Emeritus from Seattle Pacific University where she taught ethnomusicology and music education. Kedmon Mapana was her doctoral student at SPU and brought the music and culture of Tanzania to her classes. Her publications include world music for K-12 classes, such as World on a String: A Sampling of Musical Traditions from Around the World. She recently returned from teaching as a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa.
DR. AMY BEEGLE
SECRETARY
Amy Beegle, PhD is Associate Professor of Music Education and Orff Schulwerk course director at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). She has three degrees in music education: BME from the University of New Mexico, MAME from the University of St. Thomas, and PhD from the University of Washington. She has taught general music and band in K-8 schools in New Mexico, Illinois, and Washington, and has worked with undergraduate interns to teach music to children of parents with substance use disorders in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has presented workshops locally, nationally, and internationally in areas including musical creativity, culturally responsive teaching, and World Music Pedagogy. Her work has been published in The Journal of Research in Music Education, The Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, General Music Today, The Music Educators Journal, The Kodály Envoy, The Orff Echo, and OMEA’s Triad, and she has contributed chapters to General Music: Dimensions of practice; Approaches to teaching classroom music: Methods, issues, and viewpoints; Contextualized practices in arts education: An international dialogue on Singapore; and Patriotism and nationalism in music education. She is co-author of World Music Pedagogy, Vol II: Elementary Music Education (Routledge WMP series). She currently serves on the board of the Alliance for Active Music Making and chairs the Committee for Community Belonging at CCM. In 2018, she traveled to Chamwino, Tanzania to attend the Cigogo Festival.
DR. LAUREL SERCOMBE
TREASURER
Laurel Sercombe is an ethnomusicologist and former archivist for the Ethnomusicology Program at the University of Washington in Seattle, now retired. Her areas of interest include Coast Salish literature and songs, the history of ethnographic research in the Pacific Northwest, and the Beatles. Among her publications are the articles “Native Seattle in the Concert Hall: An Ethnography of Two Symphonies” and “History of Lushootseed Language Instruction.” She volunteers locally with the UW Burke Museum, Jack Straw Cultural Center, and the Lushootseed Language Conference.
BOARD MEMBERS
(in alphabetical order)
DR. DAVID AARONS
BOARD MEMBER
David Aarons is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington in 2017 and a Master of Music degree in steelpan performance from Northern Illinois University in 2012. He also holds a Bachelor of Music degree from The University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago (2008). His major research project focuses on Rastafari who repatriated to Ethiopia and who use reggae music as a mechanism for constructing their Promised Land amidst various challenges. His publications appear in Ethnomusicology, Caribbean Quarterly, The Journal of African Cultural Studies, and The Journal of Popular Music and Society.
DR. JOE KINZER
BOARD MEMBER
Joe Kinzer is a faculty member at Utah State University, where he serves as Community & Oral History Archivist and Curator of the Fife Folklore Archives. Trained as an ethnomusicologist, his work examines folklore and cultural expression through music, oral traditions, and everyday narrative. As a Fulbright-Hays Fellow, his doctoral research in Malaysia examined the gambus lute as a contested site of modern identity, transnationalism, Islam, and material heritage. In 2014, he attended the Wagogo Music Festival and presented at its accompanying ethnomusicology symposium at the University of Dar es Salaam. His current work links oral histories from the Intermountain West of the United States with global traditions of performance, storytelling, and rural community life.
DR. SEAN ICHIRO MANES
FRIENDS OF CHAMWINO
This is Sean's 20th year as a music teacher for the Jersey City Public Schools in New Jersey, USA. In this capacity, he teaches general music, small group voice instruction, musicianship, musical theatre, piano and choir. As well, Sean was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Medgar Evers College, the African-themed campus of the City University of New York (CUNY) for six years (2014-2020), where he taught ethnomusicology courses. Sean holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington, and is an alumnus of both Columbia University and Westminster Choir College. He has traveled to visit the Chamwino festival twice (2019, 2023), which has become a major point of inspiration for his lessons that he teaches to the children of Jersey City.
DR. KEVIN SCHATTENKIRK
BOARD MEMBER
Kevin Schattenkirk is an ethnomusicologist and music historian currently serving as Honors Faculty at Longwood University, with a dual appointment in the Cormier Honors College and the Music Department. His research examines the choral performances of newly commissioned music for purposes of outreach and social change, the focus of his current book project. In addition to teaching courses that draw from this research, he also teaches an upper-level course on popular music and marginalized voices, exploring the ways power, privilege, and access inform and shape notions of collective musical identity. He is also particularly proud of a place-based course in San Francisco that he co-designed and co-teaches with Longwood University colleagues in History and Communication Studies.
STAFF
DR. WILLIAM J. COPPOLA
WEBMASTER
Will is Associate Professor and Chair of Music Teaching and Learning at the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, CA. He is co-author of World Music Pedagogy, Volume IV : Instrumental Music Education (Routledge, 2018) and World Music Pedagogy. Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education (Routledge, 2020). His most recent book, Egotism, Elitism, and the Ethics of Musical Humility (Oxford University Press, 2025), examines cultures of superiority in music teaching, learning, and performance contexts. Will was previously an elementary music director with New York City Public Schools. He traveled to Chamwino, Tanzania in July 2016 to attend the Cigogo Festival and was forever changed by the experience.
DR. KEDMON MAPANA
CHAMWINO LIASON & FOUNDING DIRECTOR
Dr. Kedmon Mapana is founder of Chamwino Arts Center, and advisor to CAC on design and implementation of the organization’s projects, as well as central to securing funding for the organization. He is also Chair of BASATA, the National Arts Council of Tanzania, and formerly on the faculty of the University of Dar es Salaam.
CINDY STRONG
COMMUNICATIONS
Cindy is Emerita Faculty Librarian at Seattle Pacific University. She served as the Education Librarian for 14 years. Cindy has been involved with Chamwino Connect and the village of Chamwino for a number of years. Her first trip to Chamwino was in 2012 at the request of Dr. Kedmon Mapana to start a library in the Chamwino Secondary School. Since that time, she has been back 4 times to check on the library, attend the Cigogo Music festival, and visit her new Tanzanian friends. The last time she was in Chamwino was early 2024 during a Fulbright Grant program in which she participated. To learn more, see the article Beyond Borders: a Fulbright Specialist's Journey Began With a Library She Brought to Tanzania.
PAST MEMBERS
JANET BAN
PAST SECRETARY
Jan is a school music educator in Middle School Choral Activities and General Music for over 40 years.
BRIAN HICKORY
PAST BOARD MEMBER
Brian lives in Steamboat Springs, CO with his wife and two daughters, and operates a home inspection business. Brian has been involved with Chamwino Connect since 2008.