Dr. Sun Joo Lee is a board-certified music therapist, classically trained singer, and Assistant Professor of Music Therapy at the University of Missouri–Kansas City Conservatory. She holds a Master of Music in Voice Performance from Arizona State University and a PhD from the University of Iowa, and brings more than 18 years of clinical experience working with individuals with neurodegenerative conditions. Her research focuses on therapeutic group singing and its potential to enhance voice, communication, psychosocial well-being, quality of life, and community engagement. Since 2008, she has served as Music Director of Tremble Clefs Arizona, a therapeutic singing group for people with Parkinson's disease and their care partners, and she went on to found Tremble Clefs Iowa City in 2023 and Tremble Clefs Kansas City in 2025. She also directs Shine Your Light, a therapeutic singing program for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, which she began in Arizona in 2019 and expanded to Kansas City in 2025. She is committed to developing evidence-based, person-centered music therapy interventions that bring people together through song, and she continues to sing and study voice, keeping alive her longtime dream of becoming an opera singer.