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@prof_jas

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music therapist 🎶
associate professor 👩🏽‍🏫
phd candidate 📚 ABD
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We normalize the types of music we are routinely thought in the classroom. We are taught to call them universal instruments that are the most importantly to know. However, how are we defining importance? To whom?

@prof_jas breaks down how these simple questions can lead to music being part of our resistance - check out her full presentation on our YouTube page 🫶🏽

✨ New here?
Our BIPOC Therapist Socials happen every month! We gather in a cute Brooklyn bar, making new friends and connecting with old ones 🩷 Each event has 1-2 mini presentations, diving deeper topics and concepts that are bringing us joy ✨

Join us!

✨ Follow @bipoctherapistcollective

✨ Comment “community” to be sent a link to our next event! taken in McCarren Parkhouse by @prof_jas

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📣 Music is our Birthright!! This hits on so many levels, reminding us that music is an entire world and landscape of sounds, beautiful music that we deserve to listen to can sound like Cumbia, Rap, Reggaeton ✨ this is also incredible, healing music

Check out Jasmine’s full video on our YouTube channel :) she goes into the depths of what is music therapy and how we can use its concepts to help us heal in the work we do.

✨ New here?
Our BIPOC Therapist Socials happen every month! We gather in a cute Brooklyn bar, making new friends and connecting with old ones 🩷 Each event has 1-2 mini presentations, diving deeper topics and concepts that are bringing us joy ✨

Join us!

✨ Follow @bipoctherapistcollective

✨ Comment “community” to be sent a link to our next event! taken in McCarren Parkhouse by @prof_jas

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I reflect back on Jasmine’s presentation and I am just so grateful she graced us with her knowledge and wisdom. She is an incredible human and the type of person who pushes us to think deeper and feel harder - literally just ask any of her students. Not seen in this clip is her S/O to Blues People by Amiri Baraka that dives deeper into the birth of the blues as a form of resistance and healing <3 You can watch Jasmine’s full presentation on our YouTube channel :)

✨ New here?
Our BIPOC Therapist Socials happen every month! We gather in a cute Brooklyn bar, making new friends and connecting with old ones 🩷 Each event has 1-2 mini presentations, diving deeper topics and concepts that are bringing us joy ✨

Join us!

✨ Follow @bipoctherapistcollective

✨ Comment “community” to be sent a link to our next event! taken in McCarren Parkhouse by @prof_jas

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Happy Juneteenth ❤️🖤💚

Just 3 Black doctors harmonizing.

Grateful for friendship and the gift of making music together with these beautiful humans (and voices).

@singingshoes @prof_jas

#beyoncé #flamenco #juneteenth #themdocsbesangin taken in Harlem by @prof_jas

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4 months ago

I had aspirations of a fourth year PhD photo dump, but I’m feeling a bit weary and teary as this academic year comes to a close. And still, my attempt to consolidate the last nine months of life into a single post invited me to remember through scrolling through my photos; this year I defended my dissertation proposal, became candidate, and completed data collection; I taught 5 masters level courses, supervised students and number of professionals; I wrote and presented and talked and made music. In between I was loved on and loved back. As I enter my final (!) year of PhD I am also embarking on a whole new professional journey as an associate professor of music therapy at Berklee College of Music, a dream I have held for a long time. I love Boston for lots of reasons and I love New York. Happy, sad, excited, scared, and resolved to view this change as an expansion of my life and community rather than a departure from it (thank you @dramaadam for giving me that gorgeous reflection). Going the way my blood beats, as it were. A chance to pull at my thread in a way I haven’t been able to yet.

So, to represent this moment in time, I’m choosing a photo taken last July by my beloved @erica_dub when we were in Norway to present at a pediatric music therapy conference. I chose this photo because I loved this moment and reminiscing on it now; it was a morning that was sweet and slow and full of excitement about the rest of this trip. I had some ideas, but really could not have predicted how I feel right now. The change challenge tears highs lows wins mistakes. Change. Painful, necessary, constant. I’m thinking of everyone I know who has surfed similar waves this year and felt how beautiful and heartbreaking and overwhelming and miraculous life is all at once. This post still feels unfinished. It is. See ya in Boston ♥️ by @prof_jas

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What if songwriting wasn’t just for the charts, but a tool for emotional processing, connection, and care?

Last month, Associate Professor Kei Slaughter moderated a Berklee Career Jam panel exploring how music therapists and community musicians use collaborative songwriting in oncology and NICU units, peer recovery centers, veteran programs, and various community settings. The conversation showcased how songwriting skills can translate into a career that has a tangible impact on community health and well-being.

Each panelist has made valuable contributions to the music and health field in collaboration with the Berklee Music and Health Institute:

- Jasmine Edwards and Kei Slaughter are faculty within the music therapy department and have shared their respective work about creating culturally responsive music spaces that serve BIPOC communities during our Community Health Musician Certificate program.

- Caitlin Bell teaches in the music therapy department and has developed lessons and workshops for our Community Health Musicians, most recently about culturally reflexive community music practices from her experience in the nationally recognized @theangelbandproject (in partnership with Jasmine Edwards).

- Rebecca Vaudreuil and Diane Garrison Langston gave insight into advancing innovative, evidence-informed approaches to support military and veteran health and well-being at our past convening, Sound Health in Action: Arts and Health for Military and Veterans.

#panel #musicandhealth #artsinhealth #songwriting #berkleemusicandhealthinstitute by @prof_jas

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6 months ago

Jasmine (she/her)✨ will be one of our presenters for our April Social!  
Jasmine Edwards @prof_jas, MA, LCAT, MT-BC is a music therapist, holding a BM and MA in music therapy from Florida State University and NYU, respectively. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate and fellow within Steinhardt Music Education with a focus in music therapy at New York University. Her clinical experiences include private practice, outpatient, school-based, community, and medical-pediatric settings, and she is trained in NICU-MT, First Sounds: Rhythm, Breath, Lullaby, and Austin Vocal Psychotherapy. Jasmine has a vested interest in elevating discussions about cultural humility in music therapy education and clinical practice, as reflected in both her teaching and academic writing. Her current research focus centers on the experiences of BIPOC music therapy educators and professionals across various contexts. She has served as an adjunct faculty member in the music therapy departments at Howard University, New York University, Montclair State University, Nazareth College, Duquesne University, and Molloy University.

Jasmine will be presenting on Music for Wellbeing! 🎶 She will be sharing about how music can be a resource for therapists, especially when this field leaves us with the BIG FEELS. Music can lift our spirits, spark creativity, help us process our emotions, and remind us of our joy!

Our BIPOC Therapist Socials happen every month! We gather in a cute Brooklyn bar, making new friends and connecting with old ones 🩷 Each event has 1-2 mini presentations, diving deeper topics and concepts that are bringing us joy ✨ by @prof_jas

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Music. Music!!! I love her!!!! by @prof_jas

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Starting 2026 rooted in meaningful conversation and community. 🥹

Today I had the honor of supporting a friend and fellow Black music therapist as she works on her dissertation— reflecting on identity, lived experience, and the impact of community among Black music therapists.

Grateful for spaces where our stories are seen, valued, and held. 🎶

#blackmusictherapists
#musictherapycommunity
#blacktherapists
#therapistcommunity by @prof_jas

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10 months ago

Registration is open. We cannot wait to be in community with you all!

(ID: sky and a red phoenix with the text: Abolition Music Therapy Forum: A Day of Consciousness Raising
We will gather for discussion, music, and community building focused on exploring:
• How do we un-colonize music therapy?
• How can MT education be freer?
• How do we build community resources and vehicles to share information?
• How do we care for each other and for our communities?
This forum will be held by Jasmine Edwards, Zein Hassanein, and Audrey Hausig, who are music therapists and educators committed to rooting their practice and pedagogy in liberation. Their combined clinical experience includes medical and mental health settings with people of all ages. Their areas of study include un-colonizing healthcare, sociocultural dynamics in therapy, and the responsibility of therapists to seek justice inside and outside the therapy room.

The forum will take place live and in-person, January 17th, 2026 from 9:30-5:00
at the Philly Free School: 4950 Springfield Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19143
Cost: Professionals: $60, Students: $40
(Full refunds are available until 12pm 1/16/25)
register: www.philadelphiamusictherapy.com or philadelphiamusictherapy@gmail.com
*This event will not be recorded and is not available for reparations pricing.
Learning Objectives:
-Define abolition, social justice, and anti-oppressive practice. 5B-3
-Demonstrate 3 ways that abolition, social justice, and anti-oppressive concepts and
values might be operationalized in clinical practice. 2D-5, 28
-Identify 2 ways that they will take action related to liberating their music practice in
their respective contexts. 5B-13, 65
Course Schedule: 9:30-5:00pm (360 minutes)
9:30: Musical check-in & song share
10:15: Check in: Hopes & Intentions
11:00: Theory and Frameworks
12:30: Break: Lunch Provided
1:30: Praxis Matters: What Now?
3:00: Break
3:30: Accountability Action Planning
4:30: Closing music
5:00: Wrap up
(see rest of text in comments)
#Abolition #MusicTherapy #Musictherapist #continuingEducation #phillytherapists taken in Lenapehoking / Philadelphia by @prof_jas

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We are so excited for this! Mark your calendars! (Image: a sky with clouds and the text: Save the Date. Saturday January 17th, 2026. In-person in West Philadelphia
Abolition Music Therapy Forum: A Day of Consciousness Raising
Discussion, music, and community building focused on exploring:
• How do we un-colonize music therapy?
• How can MT education be freer?
• How do we build community resources and vehicles to share information?
• How do we care for each other and for our communities?) #abolition #musicTherapy #musicTherapist #MusicTherapyEducation #freedom taken in Lenapehoking / Philadelphia by @prof_jas

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Semester prep for the three (3!) universities I’m teaching for this year (I’m a Capricorn rising, sue me!) is in full swing, and I’m trying to stave off the all too familiar imposter syndrome by taking stock of what I’ve done and what I know. That may seem obvious, but it’s not inherent; I- and I suspect many women in academia- are often told that we don’t know, or that our experiential knowledge isn’t enough. And yet, what our bones know is compass, guidepost, balm.

My dear friend and fellow music therapy educator @steph3nie invited me to join her in writing a chapter about what we went through as students trained in a classical music paradigm; what was harmful, and what we had to shed in order to become responsive and responsible music therapists. We used our own stories as sites of analysis to explore how music therapy concepts and feminist frameworks might offer us some pathways to make music education more caring and honoring of what students already know about themselves and their music.

This chapter is a conversation, and I was warmly welcomed by Stephenie into sharing where Black feminist thoughts lives in my work now, and how it led me back to what I know.

Swipe for a few excerpts, but also check out the chapter bc it reads best as a whole! One slide has some citations of music therapists who guided my steps in general but in this particular chapter. Surprise pic at the end of Stephenie and I being the very serious academics that we are. by @prof_jas

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