Less Seen, Less Heard: Stories from the Margins is a podcast produced by the Activist Lab at Boston University School of Public Health. These conversations offer a megaphone to communities that have been marginalized, othered, disempowered, and in many ways silenced or removed from our public health practice, policymaking, and acceptance in mainstream society. We will cover a broad spectrum of topics that may be familiar and sometimes uncomfortable. Thank you for leaning in with us.

Harmony in Crisis: Music and Public Health Advocacy with: André de Quadros 

In the episode below, Craig Andrade, associate dean and associate professor for practice, and director of the Activist Lab, speaks with André de Quadros, professor of music at BU’s College of Arts and Sciences, whose interests include African, African American, Asian, Jewish, and Muslim studies, prison education, forced migration and antiracist research. De Quadros has worked in more than 40 countries in diverse settings including professional ensembles, prisons, psychosocial rehabilitation, refugees, and victims of sexual violence, torture, and trauma. His work crosses race and mass incarceration, peacebuilding, LGBTQ+ folx, and Islamic culture. 

As an artist, scholar, and human rights activist, de Quadros talks about the intersectionality of music, art and public health advocacy practice, especially in the present moment of conflict and vulnerabilities.