Kristin Kummer is the creator and director of Kids Create Collective and Growing Harmonies Music Therapy Services. She is a board-certified music therapist and works with individuals on the autism spectrum and various other diagnoses ages 3 years old through teens. She is a teacher of early childhood music and movement and also teaches storytelling and creative writing classes to elementary schoolers, middle schoolers, and adults. She attended Baldwin Wallace in Berea, Ohio as a music therapy equivalency student, earned a M.A. in English literature from Middlebury College’s Breadloaf School of English in Middlebury, Vermont, and earned B.A.s in both music and English literature from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. And through that long journey, she learned to connect with people of all abilities, the art of writing curriculums, managing groups (that she fondly refers to as “controlled chaos”), and the fine art of creating a community of individuals in different disciplines and across ages.

Currently, she keeps a home with her abundantly patient husband, Ron, her sassy-sweet daughter, Rosie, and their spoiled rescue beasts, Winifred the Dog and Bianca the Cat. Kristin loves to cook and bake, read, obsess over the music of the 90s (the best music era!), listen to podcasts, make music, & knit and crochet.