Amelia Nagoski Peterson

ACDA gives conductors access to our most important resource: other
conductors.  Every conductor’s strengths and interests have the
potential to enrich my conducting and my choirs’ experiences if there’s a
way for me to learn about them. 
Many of us work in isolation—I, for example, have been conductor of the
community choir, the choral person at the high school, the musician at
the church, and the only choral-area doctoral student amidst three band
guys!  It would be easy for me to do all my work and never speak with
another choral conductor; but it’s a pleasure to find out what’s going
on outside my own rehearsal room and to talk with others about what I’ve
been working on.  ACDA is the way I connect with other conductors, and
I’m grateful for the opportunities they provide.  They make it easier
for me to do better.