Bri'Ann Wright

Dr. Bri’Ann Wright has over 18 years of experience teaching music in various capacities that include pk-12 public school, undergraduate and graduate courses and workshops, private lessons, extracurricular music and music theater, and preschool. Wright has published in Arts Education Policy Review and Research Studies in Music Education. She has presented her research at multiple national and international conferences including the Annual Meetings for the American Education Research Association, the National Association for Music Educators, Society of Music Teacher Education, and the International Society of Music Education international conference among many others. Wright received her Ph.D. from University of Maryland in College Park, her Ed.M. and M.A. degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University, and her B.M. in piano performance degree from Augsburg University. Wright’s current research interests include music and arts education policy, creativity, and issues of equity and social justice in the music classroom. Her teaching expertise is in pk-12 general music, creativity, popular music pedagogy, and early childhood music. Wright is currently starting her first year as an assistant professor in music education at California State University Fullerton.