Eric Galm is Professor of music, chair of the music department, co-director of the Center for Caribbean Studies, co-chair of the Urban-Global Arts Initiative and a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Fellow at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut. He founded the Trinity Samba Ensemble and the Samba Fest, a regional music festival that has presented the United States debut performances of Brazilian artists including Berimbrown, Dinho Nascimento and the Orquestra de Berimbaus do Morro do Querosene, Ivan Vilela, the Meninos de Minas, and Adrianna, among others. He has conducted research, presented and performed in Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad, the United States and Canada. He was invited to serve as a featured participant at the “International Seminar on Education Research: Theory and Practice” at the Universidade Estadual de Piauí/Teresina, and “Música em Debate” at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. In September 2018, he was awarded Honorary Citizenship from the City of Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. In addition to currently serving as a selection committee member for the national Fulbright Fellowship Program and the Southern New England Apprenticeship Program, he has received awards from the Fulbright Fellowship Program, Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation, Trinity College (Trustee Award for Excellence and Hughes Teaching Achievement), the Community Music Center of Boston’s prize for teaching excellence, the 2020 Steve Balcanoff Award for community engagement from the Hartford-based Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance, and was a National Finalist for the Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award. Galm has also developed interactive presentations on intersections between music and culture for public school systems, the Connecticut State Department of Education and others, as well as an online EdX world music course that has attracted nearly 4,000 enrollments. He has performed with icon Pete Seeger and has recorded several CDs including traditional Renaissance music and Brazilian Jazz. His publications include The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music (U. Press of Mississippi 2010) and “Baianas, Malandros and Samba: Listening to Brazil Through Donald Duck’s Ears” (Global Soundracks: Wesleyan 2008). His current book project Capturing the Past to Forge a Future: Evanira Mendes, a Forgotten Voice from the Brazilian Folklore Movement (under contract, U. Press of Mississippi) explores the life and writing of a young woman Brazilian folklorist in the 1950s as well as the emergence of Brazil’s first Museum of Folklore. He holds degrees from Wesleyan University, Tufts University and the University of Michigan, and performance certificates from Escola Brasileira de Música and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.