James Allen is a K-5 Orff-Certified Music Specialist, presenter, and performer. He was a featured presenter at the 2021 AOSA Conference, and presented again in 2024 in Des Moines, headlined at the 2023 NYSSMA conference, and created educational content for Musicplay.com and Reverberations. James taught graduate level classes at Sacred Heart University and holds degrees from SUNY Purchase, Yale, and a teaching certificate from CCSU.