Kansas City Young Audiences
Carmen Eppright currently serves as the Director of Arts Education at Kansas City Young Audiences, a position held since August 2023. Prior to this role, Carmen was the Director of Programming for Harmony Project KC at the Northeast Community Center from January 2022 to August 2023, where responsibilities included overseeing Care Services and the Path to College initiative. Carmen's experience also includes serving as Founding Program Manager for Harmony Project KC at NECC-KC and various roles in educational and outreach capacities, including a development internship with the Celebrity Series of Boston and working as a Policy Analyst for UNICEF. An accomplished educator, Carmen taught music history and piano at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru and served as an administrative assistant at Markham College, among other teaching positions. Academically, Carmen holds a Master's Degree in International Education Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education and degrees in Piano Performance and Music with a focus on Education from the University of Cincinnati and Indiana University Bloomington, respectively.
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Kansas City Young Audiences
Kansas City Young Audiences mission is to engage all youth in the arts, promote creativity, and inspire success in education. About KCYA Kansas City Young Audiences is the original provider of arts education programs for children and youth in the Kansas City metro. Our programs serve approximately 100,000 students annually, and for many. it is their first brush with the arts. Nearly 70% of the students we serve come from lower-income homes and may not have access to these experiences if it weren't for KCYA and our 150 partner teaching artists. Our Rallying Cry: Every child deserves the transformational spark the arts ignite! Our History Kansas City Young Audiences (KCYA) has been the leading provider of high-quality arts education for 55 years. Established as a non-profit agency in 1961 by a group of dedicated volunteers, KCYA's original mission was to provide children, in Kansas City schools, an opportunity to see and hear classical music performances. Since that time, Kansas City Young Audiences now provides programs in creative writing, dance, theatre, visual art as well as music and serves the greater Kansas City area, Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri. KCYA is an affiliate of the national Young Audiences Arts for Learning network, the leading provider of arts education programs in the United States. Kansas City Young Audiences arts programs have helped more than 5 million children cultivate artistic expression; unleashing ideas, creativity, and individual problem solving skills.