Music an universal language everyone can understand
Shapiro connected to Harmony Project through her friend Jen Robinson, the former youth director for the organization. She said music is an universal language and that it can teach new Americans how to speak English in a nonthreatening way. Brown said he organized the program as a way to get to know his new neighbors in Northland. Harmony Project"Anytime you moved into a new neighborhood, at least the way it used to be, is that you'd go over and meet your new neighbors and take them some cookies or brownies or something like that," he said."We want the kids to know that this is a place they can come, where they're safe, where their voices are heard.