Cantor Abbe Lyons is dedicated to enhancing the spiritual and emotional power of music and Jewish learning in everyday life as well as in sacred spaces. She is the Assistant Program Director for the ALEPH Cantorial Program, where she received smicha as Hazzan (Cantor) in 2010, and on the faculty for the Davennen Leadership Training Institue. She is Jewish Chaplain at Ithaca College, where she received a B.Mus. in voice performance in 1987. Cantor Lyons is an innovative liturgist and composer whose published work includes Jewish Liturgy: A Guide for Everyone, poetry, alternative social justice haftarot, and original music on the album Listen! with her multifaith band, Resonate, and solo album Household Chores. She is a dynamic SpeakChorus Torah group midrash facilitator, and offers Contemplative Torah groups and presentations/performances on Jewish Communities Around the World Through Music. Current projects include multigender and nonbinary liturgy and Torah translations.