Bio
Trained in psychology and ethnomusicology, Erica Cao spent the past few years conducting fieldwork and organizing songwriting workshops with social service organizations in NYC. She continues this work in community mental health settings and with San Mateo County as a resident psychiatrist. She co-founded Humans in Harmony, a 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit which organizes collaborative arts projects with community members. Her writing has appeared in Journal of Medical Humanities, Music Perception, and Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. Her interests are in community-engaged research, health implementation, and critical theory.
She completed her MD at Columbia University. Before this, she received a doctorate in Music at the Centre for Music and Science, University of Cambridge and a BA in Psychology and Certificate in Music Performance from Princeton University.