James is Program Manager in the Global Sales Enablement team at Accruent in New Orleans. He’s also teaching adjunct at Tulane in the Music, Science, and Technology area, and serving as faculty advisor for scholarship applicants. He continues with his musical performances. He’s also copy edited a forthcoming book for UC Press about the relationship between hip-hop and radio during the genre's popular ascendency in the mid 80s through the 90s. As a Mitchell Scholar Class of 2019, James May studied Experimental Sound Practice at University College Cork, where he specialized in extended vocal technique and electronic improvisation. He received the Seán Ó Riada prize for his choral work "street after street alike", the West Cork Chamber Music Festival award for his string quartet "Sculpture VI”, and traveled with New Dublin Voices to compete in the Internationaler Kammerchor Wettbewerb Marktoberdorf. He is additionally a freelance writer with publications from ICAREIFYOULISTEN and Sound American, and currently lives in New Orleans. James is a graduate of The College of Wooster with degrees in Music Composition and English and he obtained a Master’s in Composition at the University of Louisville.