Elise Felker is a graduate from University of Rhode Island where she earned her BA in Music Education. She is the founder of Voces Excelsis, the treble chorus at the University of Rhode Island. She started her career teaching Middle School Chorus and General Music in the public schools. She currently directs with the Newport County Youth Chorus and Choral Collective of Newport County. Along with teaching through CCNC, she co teaches a music course at MCI-Norfolk in Massachusetts. She currently serves on the leadership team of the artists collective Voices21C in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2019, she interned at the Casterbridge Music Development Academy in White River, South Africa. While in SouthAfrica, she also taught General Music at Mshadza Disability Center.