Mitra Sadeghpour, DM Indiana University, is an education consultant and arts administrator with a 20-year career in higher education, teaching voice and opera at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire as a Maxwell Schoenfeld Distinguished Professor, the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, St. Olaf College, and Luther College. Ms. Sadeghpour was Education Director at Minnesota Opera and is a mentor for the Holland Opera Fellows at Opera Omaha. Mitra was National Vice President of Outreach for the National Association of Teachers of Singing and has participated in both the Women’s Opera Network Mentorship and Leadership Intensive programs of Opera America, where she also served as co-chair of the Education Forum. Ms. Sadeghpour is passionate about the power of teaching and learning through classical music for people of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience