The Five Percent

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 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 (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 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.

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.

These women are heroes, bad-ass superstars.  Let’s always make history remember who they are.  Through pandemic ramblings, or word-press, or pen, keep spreading the word of these powerful women. 

Fernanda Starling started her career in Brazil and is now a versatile engineer in Los Angeles. Working in Recording, Broadcast, and Film & TV Audio!

Liina Turtonen of LNA Does Audio Stuff

Beth O’Leary is a freelance monitor engineer and system tech based in the U.K. She has been working in the industry for 11 years. She has toured as a system tech with Arcade Fire, J Cole, the Piano Guys, Paul Weller, a tour featuring Roy Orbison as a hologram.