Merryl Goldberg

Merryl Goldberg, Ed.D., is a professor of music specializing in arts integration at California State University San Marcos, where she focuses on the role that arts play in academic success, career development and empathy. She is also the director of CSU San Marcos’ Center ARTES — which stands for arts, research, teachers, education, schools — a center where teachers learn how to integrate the arts with a wide range of classroom subject matter, as well as how to teach art as a discipline. Dr. Goldberg received her doctorate and master’s degrees from Harvard University; she received her bachelor’s from the New England Conservatory of Music. Prior to entering academia Dr. Goldberg was on the road for 13 years as a saxophonist with the Klezmer Conservatory Band out of Boston.