Renata Dworak Berlin is the Director of Choral Activities at Davidson College. Originally from Chicago, Renata is a choral conductor and music educator who studied music education and choral conducting at DePauw University, Eastman School of Music and now Boston University (ABD). Renata taught choral arts in the music department at Princeton University and managed an international artist series. Uniquely, Renata spent four years living in Ethiopia and Tanzania, where her work founding and directing the Ethiopian Peace Choir earned her nominations by two U.S. Ambassadors for the Secretary of State Award for Outstanding Volunteerism Abroad. The choir of 80, the first of its kind in the Horn of Africa, brought together multiple ethnicities to promote unity and develop musical literacy. An advocate for music education, Renata worked at the Castleton Festival (founded by the late, great Lorin Maezel) as their Director of Community Engagement, and her work allowed her to design and implement music curriculum and outreach programs to underprivileged areas.