Kim Trusty

Providence, RI

Kim is beloved for her work in the Providence community, teaching elementary school music to under-represented children. She helped to start Providence’s first school for the Arts, longtime FirstWorks education partner TAPA - Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts back in 2010. Her accolades and awards include YWCA’s “Women of Achievement” award for outstanding arts education, and the “Voice for the Voiceless" award from the fund for community service. Against a backdrop of the world in crisis, Kim asks us to stop and listen. Above the noise, she reminds us that peace and hope are possible when we dream together. On her journey, she has faced racial and gender prejudice, cancer, sexual abuse, strokes, poverty and homelessness. And yet she carries on, rising from each fall a little bit stronger to bring us music that inspires and heals.

Photo credit: Dhana Whitening