Baruch J. Whitehead (Doctorate, Capella University) is an associate professor of music education at Ithaca College and the founding director of the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers, which is dedicated to the preservation of the Negro Spiritual. He is the 2020 recipient of the President Shirley M. Collado Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Ithaca College Community. He conducts antiracist workshops on diversity in music education for state, national and international conferences.