Deborah L. Pierce is a harpsichordist, vocalist, music information specialist, music educator, and certified Neurolinguistic Programming practitioner.  She has spent the last half-century teaching and exploring music and its various relationships to humanity including working for 26 years as a music librarian.  Her research interests and publications span the gamut of human thought and action, but most often are focused on Baroque performance practice, life-long learning, human potentials, social artistry, musician wellness, the influence of music on our health and spirit, and most recently how music can help us connect and create healthy “we” spaces.  She has taught music in K-12 classrooms, private studio, and higher education and currently serves as the Education Librarian in the University of Washington Libraries.