K-12 students bring concerns about issues important to their community into the classroom. Music educators must bridge the gap between classroom content and students' lived experiences, which can be fostered through programming socially conscious repertoire. This paper examines the impact of socially conscious research on the philosophy of music education among preservice teachers. This research aims to discover the extent to which preservice music teachers develop beliefs about concert programming and pedagogy through their work as research assistants contributing to the Empowering Silenced Voices Database, a crowd-sourced database of socially conscious choral repertoire.Through a multiple case study, I examined how undergraduate music education students at a medium-sized R1 university perceived and engaged with equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging in choral repertoire, and how such works influenced their beliefs and values regarding concert programming and teaching pedagogy. Participants in this study were five undergraduate students who had completed their third year of study in their music education degree programs. All of them had taken a choral literature course and two conducting classes in choral music education. They had also engaged with numerous works by historically excluded composers in their university ensembles. As research assistants, they selected socially conscious topics, curated repertoire, and developed accompanying teacher guides. Data collection included research papers, teacher guides, journal entries, interviews, and final reflections. The data are currently being analyzed using thematic analysis to identify emergent themes. Initial coding suggests that researching choral literature on socially conscious themes leads to the development of critical consciousness in preservice teachers and strengthens their commitment to culturally responsive teaching. Findings from this study may serve as an impetus for music teacher education to include training on selecting and teaching repertoire with socially conscious themes. Further implications for practice will be discussed.