The Arts Continuum for Resilience-Building Across the Trauma Spectrum

Led by: Rebecca Vaudreuil, EdM, MT-BC, MSW Candidate

This SIG is a network of experts including medical professionals, music therapists, researchers, musicians, military personnel, and civilians who work with traumatized individuals and populations around the world and across a clinic-to-community continuum of music engagement.

They share international perspectives of various applications of music including music therapy interventions and music-based experiences, music education and learning, and recreational music engagement to address trauma through professional facilitation, interactive and experiential learning, and performance informed by scholarly literature.

Rebecca Vaudreuil, EdM, MT-BC, MSW Candidate

Rebecca is a board-certified music therapist who earned a bachelor’s degree in music therapy at Berklee College of Music and master’s degree in education at Harvard University. She is currently working on a master’s in social work at Fordham University. In 2010, Rebecca founded a music therapy model for military populations that she implemented on military installations throughout Southern California. Currently, Rebecca serves as Lead Music Therapist for Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network, a national initiative that develops creative arts therapies best practices for military populations. She provides clinical and research mentorship, supports increased access to creative arts therapies research, and promotes community-based arts partnerships. Her work has been published in scholarly journals and highlighted by CNN, ABC, PBS, and in a White House Blog. Rebecca lectures on her work, national and internationally, and serves as the Special Interest Group Coordinator for the International Association of Music Medicine.

Rebecca Vaudreuil, EdM, MT-BC, MSW Candidate, SIG Co-Lead

Chief Warrant Officer Two Jonathan Crane

Jonathan Crane is currently a researcher for the U.S. Army Bands Program focused on how music effects people across all domains. His work seeks to quantify and articulate music’s effects on Soldiers and its ability to connect those Soldiers to the public they defend. He has published work in Frontiers of Psychology, the AG Corps Journal, and the Modern War Institute. Mr. Crane is current stationed at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. Previously, he served as Commander of the Military Intelligence Corps Band and musician with the Signal Corps Band and 25th Infantry Division Band. In 2011, he deployed to Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn. He holds degrees in Music Composition from The Hartt School and Bowling Green State University, also in Music Education from Lebanon Valley College.

Chief Warrant Officer Two Jonathan Crane

Capt. Moira G. McGuire

Capt. Moira G. McGuire is a nurse officer with the US Public Health Service and serves as Assistant Chief, General Internal Medicine and chief of Integrative Health & Wellness at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda. She has worked extensively with health disparities in behavioral health and oncology settings and most recently used her skills and experience to craft and enhance the care of our country’s wounded, ill and injured service members as the Program Manager of Warrior Clinic. She is the daughter of an opera singer/voice teacher father and pianist/painter/playwright mother who studied Irish Dance, ballet, piano, violin, flute and harp. She is the founder of the annual Healing Arts Exhibit at Walter Reed, now in its 12th year, which provides a showcase for those using the arts in their treatment and recovery experiences. She is a founding member of the Public Health Service Choral Ensemble, which she served as co-lead for 13 years, and a founding member of the National Initiative. The focus of her professional work lies in the belief that creativity and expression are not only essential elements in the treatment of illness and injury, but in the prevention of them as well.

Capt. Moira G. McGuire

Mark Ettenberger, PhD, MA, MT SIG Co-Lead

Mark Ettenberger, PhD, MA, MT, SIG Co-Lead

Technical Sergeant Craig Larimer

Technical Sergeant Craig Larimer is a Pianist and Vocalist in the United States Air Force Academy Band in Colorado Springs, CO, USA. TSgt Larimer travels throughout the world as a performer, educator, and music facilitator serving in the United States Air Force for the last 9 years. He has served as a musical ambassador on multiple deployments to Afghanistan, Qatar, Kuwait and other parts of the Middle East promoting peaceful relationships with local populations. Currently he works for the United States Air Force Academy as a music director, producer and educator. As a singer-songwriter TSgt Larimer continues to tap into his experiences, sparking conversations about the healing nature of music.

Technical Sergeant Craig Larimer

Diane G. Langston, MM, MT-BC

Diane G. Langston MM, MT-BC is a board-certified neurologic music therapist at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville, Florida, USA. Diane graduated from Florida State University with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music therapy. Her clinical practice, research, and advocacy focuses on music therapy with veterans and their families. Diane has presented on the delivery of music therapy via telehealth at conferences worldwide and is a published author.

Diane G. Langston, MM, MT-BC

L. Samuel Gracida, MA, MT

L. Samuel Gracida, MA, MT, is Chair of Communications and Outreach, International Association for Music and Medicine and the newest member of this SIG. Samuel Gracida is originally from Mexico but has lived in China, the USA, and Germany, where he currently resides. His interests include work with children, refugee and vulnerable populations, trauma, and more. He currently is working with refugee children in a community setting in Heidelberg, Germany.

L. Samuel Gracida, MA, MT

Karen Wacks, LMHC, EdM, MT-BC

Karen Wacks, M.Ed, LMHC, MT-BC is a board-certified music therapist and a licensed mental health counselor. She earned her master’s in education at Harvard University and is a professor and Clinical Training Coordinator of the Music Therapy Department at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. The emphasis of her global work is community music therapy, specifically for peace and reconciliation for those experiencing war and conflict.

Karen Wacks, LMHC, EdM, MT-BC

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