Alex Richard is a professor and freelance percussionist based in Winston-Salem, NC. She currently serves as the Marching Percussion Instructor for the Elon University Marching Band, and as an Adjunct Instructor at High Point University, where she teaches drumset and percussion lessons, courses in Musicianship and the History of American Music, and assistant directs the HPU Percussion Ensemble. Her research interests include historical intersections of popular music and contemporary classical music, and as an advocate for new music, Alex regularly commissions and joins consortium efforts for new and exciting percussion works. When not teaching, she spends her free time baking, reading, and hanging out with her small gray cat, Bubbles.