Karen Stafford is an elementary music specialist and adjunct professor from Union, Missouri, currently working on her dissertation for her Ph.D. through the University of Kansas. She has all three levels of Orff Schulwerk, Masters level, and Level One Kodaly. Her professional affiliations include NAfME, the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (movement and recorder instructor and member of the AOSA advocacy subcommittee), The Organization for American Kodaly Educators, The American Recorder Society, and The National Education Association. Karen has presented clinics and workshops at the local, state, and national levels and has had several articles published in the Orff Echo.