Dr. Julia Weinstein currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music Education at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame. She teaches music education courses and is the faculty advisor to the Saint Mary’s College chapter of the National Association of Music Education: Collegiate. During her P-12 teaching career, Julia taught middle school concert and jazz band, elementary school general music, private lessons, and worked as a marching band technician for high schools throughout Florida. She has also worked as an instructor and director at arts summer camps for grades P-6. During her band teaching career, Julia conducted numerous performances in the community and at Disney World. Under her direction, her school received the Florida Music Education Association’s Secondary Music Enrollment Award. While teaching elementary music, she conducted a found-percussion ensemble called Junk Jammers and her students performed at the All County Music Festival. Julia completed her PhD in Music Education as well as her Masters in Music Education degree at the University of Florida and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BS in Music Education from the University of South Florida. Her research interests include popular music in music education and music teacher education, and her research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal, Research Perspectives in Music Education. She has also presented her research at the National Association for Music Education National Conference, International Society for Music Education World Conference, Colloquium for Instrumental Music Teacher Educators, Symposium on Music Teacher Education, Desert Skies Symposium, and the Florida Music Education Association’s state conference.