Dr. Christopher L. Clark is the Director of Choirs and Instructor of Music Education at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his PhD from The University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music, a double Master’s in Music Education and Choral Conducting from Bowling Green State University, and his Bachelor’s in Music Education from Cleveland State University. He taught choral music for 15 years in public school systems in Ohio and Massachusetts. Dr. Clark’s research interests include the secularization of society and its effects on the choral field, non-religious spirituality, and the choral music of British suffragist Ethel Smyth. He has presented his work at national and international conferences, including the International Society for Music Education Conference in Helsinki, Finland, the Cultural Diversity in Music Education Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, and the American Choral Directors Association National Conference in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Clark is the Artistic Director of the men’s chorus The Singers’ Club of Cleveland. He also performs with Boston-based social justice choir Voices 21C, with whom he has toured to Israel and Palestine, Cuernavaca and Mexico City, Mexico, Vaison-la-Romaine, France, and Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is a frequent guest conductor, adjudicator, clinician, and presenter at research and practitioner conferences.