Dr. Lauren Whitham serves as Associate Director of Choral Activities at Western Kentucky University, where she directs the University Singers and Treble Chorus, and teaches music education and aural theory courses. In addition to university teaching, Dr. Whitham has considerable public school teaching experience working with K-12 students. Her choirs were invited to perform at NAfME Conferences in Washington State in 2008, 2010, and 2014, and in Kentucky in 2020 and 2021. Dr. Whitham earned her bachelor’s degree from Pacific Lutheran University, her master’s degree from Western Washington University and her Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Georgia.