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Hi! My name is Jamela Brown, and I’m serving as your AMTAS president this year! I am a senior at Texas Woman’s University, and my primary

instrument is voice. My duties include overseeing scholarship submissions and acting as a liaison between boards. So far this year, the board and I have

worked on brainstorming goals and methods to improve communication and community from the national to the local level, and the scholarship

deadlines are set! I am very excited to serve you all this semester, and I am super excited to see the amazing things I know will come from this board!

Jamela Brown, President

Hello AMTAS, my name is Garrett Weeks and I am your President-Elect for this upcoming year! I am currently a senior at the University of Louisville and my primary instrument is my voice. I am thrilled about this upcoming year and helping to move AMTAS into a connected and exciting path. My responsibilities include collecting nominations for the Standing Committee

Student Representatives and assisting the President. I am looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible at national conference and at regional conference if you are in the South East! Thank you all for this opportunity.

Garrett Weeks, President-Elect

Hello, AMTAS friends! My name is Megan Sindeldecker, and I'm the 2017 Vice President. I'm a junior at Ohio University, and my primary instrument is flute. My responsibilities include updating the AMTAS website and social media accounts, so be sure to like and follow us!

I'm looking forward to reaching out to different music therapy students and sharing our experiences together on a national platform.

Be sure to stay involved and say “hi” in St. Louis this November!

Megan Sindeldecker, Vice President

American Music Therapy Association Students

Hello! My name is Zoe Levine, and I’m a senior at West Virginia University with voice as my primary instrument. I am so happy to be acting as the AMTAS secretary this year and am excited to contribute

to our national organization by taking minutes and managing the newsletter and podcast. I am looking forward to a productive year

and seeing many of you at the national conference!

Zoe Levine, Secretary

Kenny Farinelli, Parliamentarian Greetings AMTAS! My name is Kenny Farinelli and I am currently a senior music therapy and trombone performance major at Slippery Rock University. As Parliamentarian this year, my duties include updating the bylaws, upholding Robert’s Rules of Order during meetings, and establishing a new voting committee in order to

develop a more effective system by which future AMTAS elections will be conducted. I’m looking forward to seeing you all in St. Louis!

Greetings AMTAS! My name is Rachel Williams and I am your Treasurer for this year! I am a junior at The State University of New York at Fredonia,

which may also be known to some as SUNY Fredonia. My primary instrument is voice. My duties for this year are to keep track of/create the

budget, oversee fundraisers and scholarship opportunities, and to help rewrite financial policies and procedures. I am humbled and honored to be

apart of this organization. I can't wait to see all of you at National Conference and show you what we've been up to! Just keep singing!

Rachel Williams, Treasurer

Jeff Wolfe, MT-BC, Advisor Hello, I’m Jeffrey Wolfe, the Student Advisor for AMTAS. I’m a board certified music

therapist and the Community Programs Manager at Institute for Therapy through the Arts in the greater Chicago area. My role as student advisor includes Chairing the Student Affairs Advisory Board. This includes coordinating the AMTAS executive board and each regions student advisor and president. I’m excited that this year will bring about even more growth

for AMTAS. The national Passages conference will be bigger and better than last year, we’re solidifying our financial policies, students will have more access and support from each of their regions and each student advisor, and AMTAS has a very talented executive

board. There are also some really great plans in place to celebrate the history of AMTAS at national conference. Finally, I am looking forward to reading student submissions for the E. Thayer Gaston Research Competition. Each research paper submission is eligible for a

$500 award and possible publication in the Journal of Music Therapy.

We look forward to seeing you in St. Louis, Missouri for the 2017 National AMTA Conference!