Alumni Press Box

It’s no secret that Leora Friedman ’10, currently a senior at Princeton, has been busy growing, promoting, and celebrating her non-profit organization, Music is Medicine since its founding in 2008. Four years after its birth, Music Is Medicine acquired a listserv of approximately forty people at Princeton and interest from other campuses to start chapters all over the country, with its newest set to launch at the University of California Los Angeles. The biggest factor for the organization’s success is the Donate A Song Project: an initiative that allows celebrity musicians to write, record, and perform new songs inspired by pediatric patients. Music is Medicine has been featured in WJZ, WBAL, Fox45, Glamour and The Huffington Post, Aish, , MTVu, MTV’s Video Music Awards (where Leora promoted the organization and its mission alongside her date—Darren Criss, from Glee), NBC Connecticut Morning News (which covered The Vanity Project’s custom Music is Medicine apparel line) and The Baltimore Sun. It seems the press can’t get enough; and we can’t either.

To see more videos, press, and awards offered to Music is Medicine go to www.musicismed.org, like Music is Medicine on Facebook, and check out Music is Medicine’s YouTube Channel.