������Ƶ

Anne-Katherine (A.K.) Dionne holds a full-time faculty appointment in the Department of Music, teaching music and music education courses. A.K.’s teaching and research is informed by her ten-year career as a choral music educator, the seventeen years she worked as a lawyer, and her participatory leadership in community music activities. As an educator, A.K. has taught music and conducted choirs at all levels in both public and independent schools across three provinces. A.K. has co-designed and facilitated an online prison music program, The Voice: Four Ways for women incarcerated in a federal penal institution. A.K.’s law career was focussed on criminal law, professional regulation, and policy development.
 
In addition to her work at ������Ƶ, A.K. is a PhD Candidate in music education at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral study, “Doing Time” Musically: An Exploration of Facilitators’ Experience of Leading Prison Music Programs draws on A.K.’s interest in teacher preparation, care ethics, community music facilitation, and notions of rehabilitation. 

A.K. grew up in a musical family on the East Coast of Canada, playing piano from a young age and experiencing first-hand the deeply humanizing connections reinforced through musicking.