Ep 99 Michele Forinash

Davina talks to Michele Forinash DA, MT-BC, LMHC about her
experiences working with AIDS patients in hospice in the 1980s,
topics around white supremacy and colonialism in music therapy,
Michele's experiences as a queer music therapist, and the
decolonisation of research and practice. This is a rich and
inspiring interview with a music therapist with deep insights
from a long and varied career to date. 


Michele is Professor & Director of the PhD program in the
Expressive Therapies Department at Lesley University, Cambridge,
MA. Michele, a white, cis, Queer woman, has been involved in
music therapy since 1981. Michele's research and publications
have focused on supervision, doctoral education, LGBTQIA+ topics,
arts-based research, and music therapy history. Michele is a
former President of the American Music Therapy Association and
former Chair of the National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapy.