Kacey Linkis the co-project director for the NEH Tango in the Humanities Conference and an independent scholar and pianist residing in Los Angeles, CA. With her tango research partner Kristin Wendland, she has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Tango and co-authored and published Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music (2016), and articles for Chamber Music Magazine (2018), Naxos Musicology (2020), and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2021).he is most recently the co-editor of the new SUNY Press series, Music as a Healing Art.