Two years ago, Lorrie Heagy—a Juneau, Alaska,
elementary music teacher—found herself about as far away as she could from the Alaska
Panhandle’s dark forests, glaciers and mountains.
As one of the first international fellows to take a year off to
become trained in El Sistema, a Venezuelan program that
uses music as a vehicle for social change, Heagy traveled to
steamy Caracas. And the College of Education alum (EdM,
teacher certification ’95) was both inspired and daunted by
what she was witnessing...
Read the rest of the profile of Lorrie Heagy (Sistema Fellow, '10) in Temple University's Fall 2012 publication by visiting this link.
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