Tammy Takaishi, M.Ed., MA, MT-BC is a Board Certified-Music Therapist with a Master of Arts in Music Therapy from Montclair State University. She has worked in a variety of settings from school-based, home health, to hospice. Ms. Takaishi also holds a Master's from the University of Missouri-Columbia where she specialized in strings education. Ms. Takaishi is an advocate for the music therapy field having served as a delegate for the SWAMTA region of AMTA for two years, and as a member of the Texas State Task Force for State Licensure for a decade prior to moving back to the East Coast. In her free time, she enjoys running and hosting her creative arts podcast, Creative Peacemeal, which focuses on authentic stories in the arts.