Carla Canales is an American classical singer, educator, and arts advocate who served in the Biden-Harris Administration as Senior Advisor and Envoy for Cultural Exchange at the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. She is also a Governor of the China-United States Exchange Foundation. Ms. Canales has served as a U.S. State Department Arts Envoy since 2005 and is Founder of The Canales Project, a non-profit organization behind the Hear Her Song initiative. Ms. Canales has led cultural diplomacy programs at Tufts University's Fletcher School and Harvard’s Kennedy School. A Sphinx Organization Medal of Excellence recipient, she was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers.