Zoe believes that musicians must be held accountable as community members first and foremost. She is therefore currently focused on curating radical spaces of growth at Westminster College, where she teaches flute, ethnomusicology, music appreciation, and music entrepreneurship; at Chatham University, where she is on the music faculty; and at Winchester Thurston K-12 school, where she teaches piano and flute. A 2015 Pittsburgh transplant, Zoe feels an immense sense of responsibility to the city, which she recognizes as occupied and unceded Shawnee territory. When she is performing, the flute is a conduit through which Zoe expresses and explores crises of social and environmental justice. For instance, her Syrinx Project is a “stunning, cohesive” (Pittsburgh in the Round) multidisciplinary series that tells the stories of mythological women through lenses of contemporary feminism. The Syrinx Project was a featured performance at the Pittsburgh Festival of New Music 2016 and was named Best Music Production at the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival 2019. This intense fascination with feminist storytelling was expanded into a solo flute album entitled My Own Route, which will be released in 2021. Zoe is indebted to the formal education she received at Oberlin Conservatory (B.M. flute performance, B.A. English), Carnegie Mellon University (M.M. flute performance), and the University of Kentucky (M.A. art administration) and the informal education she receives daily from her communities, which continually inform her artistic and social justice practices.