A life in music and service
Emanuel earned a bachelor’s degree with a concentration in music and voice from Rhode Island College (1976) and a master’s degree in psychiatric social work from Yeshiva University (1988). He attended the Cantors Institute at the Jewish Theological Seminary, which later awarded him a doctorate in music honoris causa (2013).
His advanced studies span Oxford’s Saïd Business School Executive Leadership Program, Harvard Business School’s Sustainable Business Strategy, Cambridge international studies including human rights and conflict, and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research Human Rights Council program in Geneva.
In 2020, he co-hosted an Hour of Peace in collaboration with the Foundation for the Support of the United Nations.
Destination Peace & the Construct Institute
As founder and CEO of Destination Peace International Inc., Manny leads a mission to create harmony throughout the world using the universal language of music and a peace curriculum, transcending differences of religion and culture to resolve conflict and bring people together.
With John Kiehl of Soundtrack Studios and Professor William Riley, he created the Construct Institute: a think tank of physicians, educators, philosophers, authors, mathematicians, neuroscientists, clergy, and entertainers focused on the wellbeing of present and future generations.
Destination Peace is a global movement connecting people through music and the shared human values that rise above political, religious, racial, and ethnic division.
Our vision is a world where honest dialogue, dignity, compassion, and a universal song replace fear and violence.
Sasha Eha Tozi Hawoo® draws its eight syllables from sounds found across 124 world languages, allowing people who share no common tongue to sing as one.
