Lydia Violet Harutoonian, an Iranian-Armenian-American facilitator-scholar, grief-worker, and folk music multi-instrumentalist, studied and worked with the renowned deep ecology elder and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy for 17 years and founded and runs The School for The Great Turning based on Macy’s legacy. In her musical pursuits, Lydia has collaborated with a number of leading socially engaged performers, including Climbing PoeTree, MaMuse, Lyla June, and Rising Appalachia, with whose co-leader, Leah Song, she teaches the course, Singing the Bones, a project that brings artists together to explore and share folk music from their ancestries, encouraging cultural revitalization and diasporic healing.