Previous research has reported a multitude of problems related to gender equality in higher music education and the professional field of Western classical music over the last decades. This study aimed to understand female conservatory piano students' experiences of being and becoming musicians. Associative interviews with six students from three…

Scholars discuss the ways Latinas participate in leadership, yet the experiences of Latina girls leading their schools is understudied. This article draws from a place-based framework to narrate the ruptures, uneasy space, surrendering, and transformation that four Latina student leaders ascribe to the leadership they enact within places of…