Elaine Chang Sandoval is a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology and a Magnet Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is recently returned from Fulbright-sponsored fieldwork in Venezuela, where she conducted her dissertation research on the development and pedagogies of Alma Llanera, a program founded to include traditional llanera music within the national Venezuelan system of music education, “El Sistema.” Sandoval received her Masters from Oxford University and her BA from Soka University of America, and was a Sistema Fellow at New England Conservatory. Her project seeks to share her fieldwork findings with El Sistema-inspired music education programs, specifically to cultivate discussion around efforts to diversify music curricula.
