Angelica Brooks

Mrs. Angelica Brooks is a decorated choral director and music educator. Mrs. Brooks served as a K-12 public school music educator for 13 years and developed a reputation for building strong choral programs and advanced singing musicians. She has been honored to serve her professional community as a guest conductor, festival adjudicator, mentor teacher, curriculum writer, and professional development presenter on topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion in music education.

Mrs. Brooks received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Vocal Performance at Bowie State University and Masters of Music in Vocal Pedagogy from The Catholic University of America. She also holds an Administrator I certification from McDaniel College and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore College. Mrs. Brooks is Doctoral Candidate at the University of Southern California pursuing her DMA in Music Teaching and Learning.

Mrs. Brooks has earned recognition for her efforts in music leadership and education as she was a 2015 GRAMMY Music Educator of the Year Quarterfinalist. In 2019, she was awarded a Leadership in Education award from Bowie State University and named Prince George’s County Public Schools’ Teacher of the Year. She was named Maryland Music Educators Associations’ Outstanding Music Educator for 2021. In service the to field of music education, she is a member of the NAFME Equity Committee since 2020 and a member of the College Music Society’s Music Education Committee. In 2022, founded her own nonprofit organization,The Table Music Education Conference, dedicated to the recruitment and retention of music educators of color as an act of social justice and educational equity

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