Kathryn Lang is a third-year student at Florida State University, where she is engaged in dual undergraduate studies in Instrumental Music Education and Flute Performance under the instruction of Dr. Mary Matthews and Dr. Karen Large. Kathryn has served her university’s NAfME chapter as advocacy chair and president-elect, roles in which she has mobilized her chapter membership in service to the local community through the facilitation of FSU’s annual Pre-MPA festival, the organization of a pedagogical partnership program to the benefit of local high school students with visual and auditory disabilities, direction of fundraising efforts for instrumental programs at a Title I middle school, and leadership of several on-campus music education advocacy and awareness campaigns. When not studying, practicing, or performing, Kathryn can be found working with the students of Annandale High School in Fairfax, Virginia, where she serves the Marching Atoms as lead visuals instructor.

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