Marion Haak-Schulenburg is a community musician, music educator and researcher in the field of community music. She studied music education at the University of the Arts, Berlin with a focus on voice and choir conducting and English linguistics and literature at the Humboldt-University Berlin. Based on her experiences in over three years as choir conductor and voice teacher for the music school of the Barenboim-Said Foundation in Ramallah, PoT, (2006-2009), she currently researches in her PhD the work of two international music projects working in Palestine. She is research assistant in the MA „Inclusive Music pedagogy/ Community Music“ at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. She is engaged as choir conductor, workshop leader, vocal coach and trainer in the field of community music in various projects in and outside of Germany. Since 2016 she is trainer of Musicians without Borders (NL)