At Nevada, Your Stage is Waiting!

The members of the Department of Music express our strong support for diversity and equity. We are saddened and outraged by the events in the last year caused by systemic racism in our society, and we believe immediate and substantive reform to policing practices and to the larger criminal justice system are urgently needed. As music scholars and practitioners, we recognize that music can both perpetuate inequity and violence and also provide powerful responses to violence by giving voice to trauma, promoting justice and healing, and uniting communities in times of struggle. We choose to use the power of music to affect positive change. We stand with Black Americans, other communities of color and all who bravely resist injustices.