About

Adrienne (or simply, Ageh) Bedell, PhD, explores the intersections of music engagement, community-level adversity, and the experience of traumatic loss. As a community-based music educator, Ageh has designed music education opportunities in homeless shelters, alternative to incarceration programs, and hospital-based violence intervention programs. Her research frames active music-making as a tool for violence prevention through trauma-informed, asset-informed, and anti-oppressive teaching. She earned a doctorate in Music Education from Case Western Reserve University in 2022, and is an independent speaker and expert consultant in trauma-informed curriculum design. Currently, she is a Lecturer, teaching courses on disenfranchised grief (including death and non-death losses), trauma, and posttraumatic growth at Case Western Reserve University. Ageh also co-designed the curriculum and serves as lead faculty for the Cleveland Humanities Collaborative (CHC) Summer Residential Collaboratory, which is a pathway program for community college students interested in humanities. She is currently pursuing a Master of Social Work degree at Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences to obtain Grief Counseling Licensure. Her focus is on integrating creative-based therapies into her practice to promote post-traumatic growth and facilitate meaning-making in the aftermath of traumatic loss and expressions of disenfranchised grief. Ageh is set to complete her field placement by Spring 2027 in Palliative Support and Care at the Cleveland Clinic, where she specializes in providing psychosocial support and grief therapy to individuals and families navigating serious illness and end-of-life transitions.