Dr. Kaitlin Bove is Artistic Director and Conductor of the BD Winds and has served in this position since 2022. She is also Director of Bands and an Assistant Professor of Music at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill and serves on the board of California Band Directors Association where she coordinates the annual Social Impact Consortium and commissions new works for the California All-State Bands. Prior to these appointments, she was on faculty at Pierce College in Puyallup, Washington and Payson High School and Mt. Nebo Junior High in Payson, Utah. Kaitlin holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Wind Conducting from University of Kentucky where she was a student of Dr. Cody Birdwell and a Masters and Bachelors of Music in Education from University of the Pacific under the mentorship of Dr. Eric Hammer. Kaitlin is founder of the And We Were Heard initiative, a volunteer non-profit that matches underrepresented composers of wind band literature with ensembles, generating quality recordings of the music of diverse compositional voices. She is also co-founder of Girls Who Conduct, a mentorship program that supports gender parity on the conducting podium. Kaitlin serves on several advisory boards for music scholarship and equity in addition to maintaining a robust schedule of honor band, adjudication, and guest conducting appearances. Kaitlin is an alumna of the BD Winds (formerly Diablo Wind Symphony) where she performed in the flute section from 2001-2004.