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Jessica Phillips-Silver
Senior Advisor
Jessica Phillips-Silver, PhD, is a music neuroscience scholar, speaker and artistic creator. Her work explores how music arts promote optimal brain growth and healing—especially through rhythm. Dr. Jessica is the creator of the new children’s musical production Finding Rhythm: A journey through the musical brain, which tells a story of the biological origins of human rhythm, and teaches children how rhythm grows their brains and helps them find the source of their individual power… and connection. Dr. Jessica’s current scientific research and writing projects focus on the development of rhythm and executive functioning in typical hearing and deaf children, and the role of embodied rhythm in understanding and decolonizing the scientific study of the musical brain. In her partnerships with DC organizations in the arts, education, and healthcare through Growing Brains, Dr. Jessica provides an integrative framework based in evidence from brain science and wisdom from the arts and healing.