"The next generation learns the language at her piano."
Dr. Dee Spencer is Professor of Jazz and Musical Theatre at San Francisco State University, where she founded the Jazz Studies degree program and directed it for five years. She holds a B.S. from Florida A&M, an M.M. from Washington University in St. Louis, and an EdD from the University of San Francisco. She founded the SFJAZZ education program and has served as program director at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts.