Ay Ay Ford Wesley – A Love for Audio and The Bigger Picture
Ay Ay Ford Wesley is an independent engineer working in both live sound and production and post audio. She is a co-owner as well as the head engineer with her husband of Sound Signature LLC.
Dana Wachs – Sound Engineer, Tour Manager, Musician
Dana Wachs is a Brooklyn based Audio Engineer, Tour Manager and Composer/Musician. Dana started her career in music in 1994, as bass player for the Dischord band Holy Rollers
Mary Mazurek – When One Door Closes Keep Knocking
Mary is a Grammy-nominated recording and live broadcast engineer and works in radio production at WFMT Radio. She also works independently with clients and teaches at Columbia College and DePaul University in Chicago. She got her start at the legendary Universal Recording Studios in 1991.
Tour Manager Marguerite Nguyen
Marguerite Nguyen is an independent tour manager who has worked in the industry for 25 years and has been on the road since 2000. She got her start working as […]
Twi McCallum on Hiring Black Designers and Creatives
However, the icing on the cake would be if I’m not the only Black, femme, and LGBTQ person on those technical teams. In a few years when I can grow as a businessperson, I want to have the power to train and recruit diverse engineers, A2s, foley artists, dialogue editors, etc who look like me.
Lara Dale, Foley Artist
Lara Dale stumbled into Foley when she came across a Craigslist ad asking for someone with a trained dance background to become a Foley Assistant. The precise timing of classical music and the rigorous physical movements of ballet and modern became the perfect background for mastering the art of Foley, which she learned from the...
Ethel Gabriel the First of the 5%
Ethel Gabriel (1921-2021) may be one of the most prolific recording industry professionals you’ve never heard of. Ethel was the first woman record producer for a major record label, and one of the first women in the world to work in A&R. She had a 4-decade career at RCA starting with an entry-level job and...
Alexandria Perryman – Audio Engineer for the Astronauts
Alexandria Perryman is a live broadcast engineer and Emmy Winner working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where one of her jobs is to run audio for astronauts on the International Space Station.
Proof in Music
Anyone Who Says They Can’t Find Women to Work With Hasn’t Bothered Looking! Proof in Music is another important platform to increase the visibility of women who are paving their own career paths behind the boards.
