Biography: Grace Joy Reid earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Kansas State University, majoring in piano and minoring in violin. She studied piano performance from Mr. Lazlo Lak at Biola University in La Mirada, California, piano with Dr. Robert Edwards at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, and piano with Dr. Elaine Brady in Manassas, Virginia. She has recently earned her Advanced Professional General Music Certificate from Berklee School of Music. She is a composer, an arranger, pianist, adjudicator, and piano teacher. She is an active member of the National League of American Pen Women, serves on the board of The Woodbridge Music Club, and is a member of ASCAP. Grace was accepted into the Veterans in Residence 2021A cohort, which is a six-month entrepreneurial incubator partnership with BunkerLabs and WeWork. She owes her love for music to her parents and to her faithful piano teachers, Ruth Farris, Ramona Printz-Smith, Mr. Lazlo Lak, Mr. Allen, Dr. Peggy Otwell, Dr. Elaine Brady, Sunnie Paxson, Mark Hayes, and Glenn Jordan, among others. She has written two pieces for musical theatre in March 2023, and has been featured in The Pen Woman Magazine. (Spring issue 2023). Grace will be a presenter (The Creative Track) at the 2023 NCKP International Piano Conference in Chicago, Illinois in July 2023.