Gretchen Shae

Gretchen Shae teaches writing in Berklee's Liberal Arts and Sciences Department. In addition to teaching, she also enjoys performing, writing songs, and singing with her band Gretchen Shae and the Middle Eight, and she also fronts Gretchen and the Banshees (a Siouxsie and the Banshees tribute band). In 2014, she performed with U2 at TD Bank Garden. Boston's WZLX named her song “Dionysius” one of its top 10 local picks of the year.

Another passion of Shae's is working as a board member with New Beginnings Reentry Services, a nonprofit organization that partners with community agencies to empower and provide supportive services to formerly incarcerated women and help them successfully rejoin their communities. She teaches a course at Berklee, LENS: Mass Incarceration, that combines her passion to end mass incarceration, educate others, and inspire artists to create thoughtful works in response to this topic. She received a Berklee Urban Service Award for her work in 2019.