Loneka Wilkinson Battiste, associate professor of music education at the University of Houston, is an international scholar with more than twenty years of teaching experience in school and community settings. Her work has been published in Choral Journal, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, Journal of General Music Education, Proceedings of the International Society for Music Education, and Toward Equity in Music Teacher Education. She has been a featured clinician for the Texas Music Educators Association conference and was the featured mini-conference presenter for the Organization of American Kodály Educators national conference in 2022. She has given speeches and papers in Accra, Ghana and in the Brazilian states of Pernambuco, Paraiba, Ceára, and Bahia. Her work focuses on supporting both enriching and affirming experiences for all students. She received her PhD in music education from Louisiana State University.