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Maya Cunningham is an ethnomusicologist, cultural activist and jazz vocalist. She has an MA in ethnomusicology from the University of Maryland, College Park. She also holds a BMus. in jazz studies from Howard University and a MA in jazz performance from Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. Her research interests are in African-American and Southern African traditional music and identity, jazz, culturally responsive music education and applied ethnomusicology. In 2017 she received a Fulbright fellowship to study traditional music and national identity in Botswana and has presented her research and writing at conferences nationally and internationally. In 2017 she launched Ethnomusicology In Action, a project thatuses music, video, radio broadcasts and educational curricula to share stories about the people of Africa, African America and the Diaspora. As a part of this project Cunningham has a radio show called Music In Culture: Sounds of the Black Experiencethat airs monthly on WOWD 94.3 FM Takoma Radio.