Chrissy Spencer, viola da gamba, is a founding member of the vocal ensemble Uncommon Practice and the Baranduin Baroque Ensemble in Vancouver, BC, and has performed in Atlanta with Ritornello and New Trinity Baroque. She helps organize regional and national early music workshops, including the Mountain Collegium weeklong summer workshop and Music on the Mountain, a weekend viol workshop. She is the Vice President, and incoming President, of the Viola da Gamba Society of America. Chrissy lives in Atlanta, GA, where she is on the Biological Sciences faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology, advocates for alternative transportation, and raises chickens in the city.