Mark Miyake has been teaching and advising students at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University in his capacity as Assistant Professor of Music and Society and leading their program in Audio Technology, Music, and Society since 2015. In this time, he has served on the Board of Trustees for Humanities Washington, on the Board of the Center for Washington Cultural Traditions, and on the Boards of several local organizations including Make.Shift Art Space. He has also served as President of the Northwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology and on national and regional award and funding panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Washington State Arts Commission. He also serves on several committees focused on equity issues in state and national organizations including the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee of Humanities Washington, and the Cultural Diversity Committee and the Committee on Contingent Workforce Concerns of the American Folklore Society. Prior to joining Western Washington University’s faculty, Mark served as Assistant Professor of The Arts and Social Sciences at Empire State College of the State University of New York and as the college-wide faculty convener for their Arts programs. During his time on the East Coast, Mark also served as the Chair of the Folk Arts Panel of the New York State Council for the Arts as well as on other boards and panels for NYSCA and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and as the President of the Middle Atlantic Folklife Association. He holds a MA and PhD in Folklore and Ethnomusicology from Indiana University, and has played in dozens of punk, heavy metal, bluegrass, jazz, country, Shona, rock, and salsa bands in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Indiana, and Bellingham since 1990. Mark’s family immigrated to the U.S. when he was two years old; this has greatly influenced his approach to understanding the arts in their cultural contexts.