Rally Collaborators
College of Fine Arts
Becky Zarate, PhD
Director, Arts & Health Innovation Lab
Associate Dean for Research, College of Fine Arts
Dr. Zarate is a music psychotherapist, musician, researcher, and educator of music therapy, arts therapies, and arts and health. Her research focuses on community mental health and sustainability, health, wellbeing, and the arts. A licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Board Certified Music Therapist, and certified Vocal Psychotherapist, she has a specific area of expertise in mental health, anxiety, and improvisation-based music therapy.
She is the author of the book, “Music psychotherapy and anxiety: Social, community, and clinical contexts,” published by Jessica Kingsley, where she illuminates the various dimensions of anxiety, and the inquiry of music and arts, and the global social issues of the rising impact of anxiety and stress.
Lynn Maxfield, PhD
Professor (Lecturer), Vocology
Dr. Maxfield is the Associate Director of the National Center for Voice and Speech where, in addition to research activities, he coordinates and teaches at the NCVS's trademark Summer Vocology Institute. He is also an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the University of Utah School of Music, where he teaches courses in voice pedagogy and vocology.
His research has been published in numerous voice-related journals and he currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Singing, overseeing the “Mindful Voice” column.