Dr. Cari Earnhart serves as the Director of Choral Activities at California State University, Fresno, where she conducts the top choral ensembles and teaches graduate conducting. The Fresno State Choirs maintain an active performing profile. In 2022, under her direction, the Fresno State Concert Choir was selected to perform at the California All-State Music Educators Conference (CASMEC) and in April 2017 the Fresno State Chamber Singers were invited to perform at the Library of Congress to honor the 21st US Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera. Earnhart is active as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator and has worked with choirs throughout the US and abroad. Abroad she served as DCA at the American University of Sharjah in the UAE and as artistic director of Nassim al Saba, an Arabic choral music ensemble. She has been a guest conductor with the Budapesti Vándor Kórus, and the Istanbul International Chamber Choir; she served as Maestro of Ensemble Vocale Tempus Floridum and as Maestro Collaboratore of Coro dell’ Accademia del Diletto and Coro Polofonico del Caricentro, all in Florence. She frequently presents workshops on Arabic choral music, vocal pedagogy and conducting. From 2016-2020, she served on the ACDA Western Region Board as R & R Repertoire Specific Chair, Conference Chair for the 2022, 2024 & 2026 Western Region Conferences. She currently serves as the 2025 ACDA National Interest Session Chair and served as a co-chair for the Indigenous People’s Immersion Choir for the 2023 National Conference. Earnhart also serves on the California Choral Directors Association Board (CCDA), is President of the Fresno Madera Counties Music Educators Association (FMCMEA) Board of Directors and is on the CMEA Central Section Board. She holds BM and MM degrees in Vocal Performance/Pedagogy from Oklahoma State University and a DMA in Choral Conducting from the University of North Texas.