As an international clinician, solo performer, and advocate for music education, Swoboda has presented and performed at prestigious conferences and meetings. She is an Eastman tuba artist.

Brown's research and teaching interests lie in later Chinese painting and decorative arts, museums and exhibitions. She has lectured in China, India, Korea and Taiwan.

Collaborating with individuals and communities on aesthetic responses to social challenges, artist, educator Gregory Sale creates large-scale public projects, including Future IDs at Alcatraz (2018-19) in San Francisco Bay.

Kocour is a jazz pianist, a Hammond B3 organist and composer. He also serves as director of jazz studies at ASU. An active performer for more than three decades, Kocour has appeared at venues around the world.