Mezzo soprano Quinn Patrick Ankrum is a professional classical singer and master teacher, serving on the voice faculty of the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. Over the course of her career, she has performed with opera companies, orchestras, and in recital at festivals throughout the United States and abroad; her students are featured on regional and national stages. In the last five years, she has turned her artistic voice to climate activism; working closely with Elizabeth Avery (pianist), she commissions and performs works setting the texts of ecopoets such as Craig Santos Perez and Felicia Zamora.  She will perform four short songs unaccompanied, excerpted from a song cycle commissioned by herself and Avery, by award-winning composer Lisa Neher, No One Saves the