Ioanida Costache: Listening as Healing

loanida Costache is a violinist, videographer, and Roma activist.  Currently, she is a PhD candidate in ethno/musicology at Stanford University.  Her work explores issues of race and ethnicity, performance/construction of identity, cultural memory, trauma, and history as they intersect in Romani musico-oral traditions.  She has held visiting fellowships at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Museum.  Her writing has been published in Critical Romani Studies, Bridge Magazine and Baricade.

The following video is by kind permission of loanida Costache.