In February of this year, music educators from around the state of Ohio gathered once again for the annual Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) Professional Development Conference held in Cleveland. The research track of the conference commenced with the Graduate Research Forum featuring music education scholar Dr. Regina Carlow of the University of New Mexico. Professor of Music and Interim Dean for the College of Fine Arts and Artistic Director of the UNM Children's Chorus, Carlow has focused the bulk of her research efforts on the marginalization experiences of students within secondary school music programs and their trajectory as musicians throughout their lives. Her research journey began twenty-five years ago as she began to recognize her own parents' and grandparents' stories in the faces of her students. In short, her passion for the marginalized in music education would become her life's work and "the paper [she] would never stop writing" (Carlow, 2019).