Part of my most recent public anthropology work involves teaching songwriting in the prison systems in Sweden, Italy and the United States and using cowriting as a method of deep knowing and intercultural communication. In July 2017, together with Sardinian singer and ethnomusicologist, Gigi Oliva, I led a songwriting workshop at the "Carcere di Uta," a men's prison outside of Cágliari, Sardegna (Italy), to inmates enrolled in the music program, there. Below is the song that they wrote as a group (recorded with permission by Gigi Oliva), "L'effetto dell'Estate" (The Effect of the Summer) recorded onsite in the prison on August 1st, 2017. 
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Recording:
leffetto_dellestate_-_uta_luglio_2017_-_prove.mp3

Lyrics:
ldffetto_dellestate.pdf

Students from "Diné Expressive Culture" class, Fall 2017, on a Service Learning Project to Many Farms, Navajo Nation

Click here to listen to latest interview with the BBC World Service for the documentary featuring Nanobah Becker, "I Speak Navajo"

BBC Piece, "Taking It All Back Home," on repatriation of indigenous and Diné musics (ethnomusicology consultant and interviewee)

Performing and Teaching Songwriting as part of Inmate Rehabiliation at Mariefred's Men's Prison, Stockholm, Sweden (with Lisen Elwin and Mette Halling), Fall 2016

Left to right: Lisen Elwin (Sweden), Kristina Jacobsen, Mette Halling (Denmark).

Entrance to Mariefred Men's Prison, Mariefred, Sweden. Fal 2016.

Performance of "Singing Anthropologists" at the annual American Anthropological Association Meetings, December 2017 (coordinator/organizer/booker/performer)

"Singing Anthropologists" Showcase and Listening Room at Third Floor, Washington, DC, as part of annual American Anthropological Association Meetings, December 2017. Left to right: Aaron Fox, Christopher Wilson, Kristina Jacobsen, Alex E. Chávez, Alexander Dent, Clifford Murphy.