Lynn Ontario Alexander (he/him) is a Cross-Cultural Musicology Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His area of study includes historical musicology in the French Baroque period and the roles of colonial history and theory in music. Other areas of interest include African American Black music history and social theory of music concerning the developments of gospel, blues, and jazz music as acts of political resistance, struggles for freedom, and cultural affirmation. Alexander holds an M.A. in Vocal Performance and an M.B.A. from California State University, Los Angeles, an M.S.L from the University of California College of the Law San Francisco, and a B.A. in Theater from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. As a multidisciplinary artist, he integrates his art practice into his research. Alexander, as a GSI at UC Santa Cruz, has taught the following courses: MERR 1-18 Academic Literacy and Ethos: Reading Ourselves, Reading the World, and MUSC 101B-01 History of Western Art Music. He has also been a TA for several music courses. His goal for participating in this fellowship is to learn diversifying teaching methods, active learning techniques, and ways to foster timely feedback in the classroom.