Juliana Cantarelli Vita is a Brazilian musician, music educator, and ethnomusicologist based in Seattle, Washington. She holds a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology/Music Education from the University of Washington and, after a decade training future music educators as a professor, now develops and teaches K–5 music programs at The Bush School. Juliana has done several multidepartmental residencies at universities across the U.S., served as keynote speaker at conferences in Brazil, Europe, and the United States, and as faculty and director of the Smithsonian Folkways World Music Pedagogy course at University of Washington, University of Hartford, and West Virginia University since 2015. Recipient of the 2021 Elizabeth May (Slater) Award from the Society for Ethnomusicology, her work focuses on advocacy and access to music making, equity, and community, including collective songwriting projects for Indigenous language revitalization with Indigenous youth. Her publications explore community music, decolonial pedagogies, and feminist approaches to music education, extending into public scholarship as the co-host of the podcast Massa: Brazilian Music & Culture. She has served as co-chair of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Education Section, reviewer for The Orff Echo journal, and currently sits on the boards of the Smithsonian Folkways Education Committee, Rain City Rock Camp, and the Alliance for Active Music Making, and the organizing committee of Seattle’s activist street band festival Honk! Fest West. As an active performer, she is the co-founder and director of the Afro-Brazilian ensemble Baque Maré, and records and performs with her two bands: Som da Massa and Cría.