An active music educator and mentor to aspiring singers, Dr. Feeney has served on the music faculties of the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music, Bergen College, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, and holds degrees from the Mannes College of Music (BM), Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music (MM), and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (DMA), where her research centered on the influence of Marian cults in the operas and oratorios of Giuseppe Verdi. She currently serves on the faculties of Nantucket Music Center, where she is founder and director of the Open Voices Youth Chorus, and is Faculty Chair of the Voice Department at the Powers Music School in Belmont, MA and at the Concord Conservatory of Music in Concord, MA, where she is founder and director of The Concord Conservatory Honors Girls' Chorus and Singing With Parkinson's.