Summers is a passionate educator specializing in creative improvisation, composition, large and small ensemble techniques and jazz history. She works extensively as a guest artist and adjudicator throughout North America, and helps to develop and execute the mission of several not-for-profit education initiatives that foster social change through music.
Affiliations, past and present, include:
Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival
Optimist Jazz Festival
Brandon Jazz Festival
University of Montana's Buddy DeFrancesco Jazz Festival
Southern Wesleyan University Jazz Camp
MacEwan Summer Jazz Workshop
Saskatoon Jazz Society Jazz Education Workshop
The Archipelago Project
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's OrchKids
The Merit School of Music's Tuition-Free Conservatory
The People's School of Music
Ravinia Festival's El Sistema
IAJE Canada's Jazzmobile
The Cleveland Institute of Music
Kent State University
Ashland University
Morehead State University
Chicago Academy of the Arts
BCMEA Scholarship Committee
Kentucky Music Educator's All-State Jazz Ensemble
