Composition faculty member Judah Adashi (MM ’02, DMA ’11, Composition) and his wife, Lavena Johanson (MM ’13, Cello), will present at this weekend’s 2016 TEDx MidAtlantic Conference in Washington, DC. Ms. Johanson will perform Dr. Adashi’s recent composition, “The Beauty of the Protest,” inspired by Devin Allen’s photos of the Baltimore Uprising. Peabody alumnus Tariq Al-Sabir (BM ’15, Voice) and Johns Hopkins faculty members Dr. Lester Spence (Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies) and Dr. Jeffrey Khan (Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics) will also present at the conference.