Dr. Judith Coe is Associate Professor and Chair of Music & Entertainment Industry Studies Department in the College of Arts & Media at the University of Colorado Denver, where she founded the commercial voice program. She has taught applied voice, songwriting, women in contemporary music, Irish music (as well as a first-year seminar on Irish music, peace, politics and popular culture), and a signature singer/songwriter ensemble. She has been a Faculty Fellow for Technology and Team Leader for the system-wide Total Learning Environment Digital Portfolios project, the CAM Cooperative Assessment Program project and an innovative college-wide outcomes assessment initiative that positions student artifacts as the portal of entry to the college. Her web development projects, particularly her Cyberspace Music Resources site (including a comprehensive collaborative course project on Irish music), have won International awards and recognition, and she routinely serves as a technology consultant, mentor, and conference facilitator. Dr. Coe is a recipient of the 2006 and the 2008 CU-System awards for faculty Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research projects, sponsored by CASTL (a Carnegie Foundation initiative) and the CU President's Teaching Scholars Program, and is currently a PTLC trainer, coach and mentor.

An eclectic singer, composer, songwriter, and synthesist, Dr. Coe specializes in pop and jazz, classical and classical-crossover, experimental and improvised music, and filtering world and world groove musics through acoustic jazz. She has performed, toured, composed, taught, and recorded in commercial, classical, and avant genres, and has performed and given scholarly presentations and world premiere performances throughout North America, Europe and the Caribbean. She most recently gave a paper on Croatian pop music and interviewed Croatian musicians during a tour, concerts and conference in Zagreb, Split, Hvar and Dubrovnik, Croatia.

A 2003 University of Colorado Denver campus winner of the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching with Technology and a 2006 College of Arts & Media Teaching Excellence Award recipient, Dr. Coe is particularly interested in developing strategies for integrating technology into teaching assignments and professional development activities, futurist studies and cybermentoring, utilizing cloud-based technology and social networking platforms as expressive creative tools, arts entrepreneurship, designing and implementing innovative curricula, and exploring the confluence and intersection of art, technology, popular culture, and the global culture industry.