Gabriela Ocadiz

Dr. Gabriela Ocádiz is a music teacher educator, researcher, and scholar. Her teaching experience is founded on building community through her practice. Having lived in four different countries (Mexico, Colombia, the United States, and Canada) has provided her with ample and diverse professional experience which includes teaching a Kodály-based early childhood program, and elementary, middle school, and high school general music; conducting children’s and women’s choirs; and designing, developing and implementing community music programs in popular and traditional musics.

Her university research centers on contributing to the current development of music education by integrating multiple ways of knowing, being, and thinking about music in theoretical development and professional practice. This includes the analysis, conceptualization, and implementation of approaches to land-based and Indigenizing music education policy, curricula, pedagogy, and research methodologies.

Dr. Ocádiz received her bachelor’s in music education from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico, her master’s in Music and Kodály certification from Colorado State University (CSU) in the United States, and her Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario (UWO) in Canada.