NASA Engineer Dajae Williams Also Makes Educational Hip Hop Music to Inspire Children to Pursue STEM

• Posted on May 5, 2020

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Dajae Williams currently works at NASA as a manufacturing engineer in their Jet Propulsion Lab. When she first began to work at NASA, Dajae noticed a lack of women and diversity. In an interview with NPR, she recalls feeling out of place when she first arrived and suffering from imposter syndrome: “There’s no women in…

Ctrl Room Series: February 2020

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• Posted on April 9, 2020

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This past February, Gender Amplified held another installment of our Ctrl Room Series. The Ctrl Room Series is meant to be a series of workshops, designed by Ebonie Smith, wherein incredibly talented and capable producers and artists come together to network, learn, and ultimately create music. Each installment has a featured artist to frame the…

Laura Escudé: How to Stay Healthy on Tour

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• Posted on April 1, 2020

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Laura Escudé is a very experienced and talented live show programmer, artist, and entrepreneur. She has designed and programmed shows for Drake, Bon Ever, Kanye West, the Weeknd, and others. Recently, she wrote an article for Medium about her experience touring and the impacts she felt to her wellbeing. She recounts her nights on Kanye’s…

Divinity Roxx Interviews with Plugin Alliance

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• Posted on March 30, 2020

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Divinity Roxx is an extremely talented American bassist, composer, and musician from Atlanta, Georgia. She has an extensive and impressive music background having performed at the White House, as bassist to Beyonce for half a decade, and for many television events including the Grammys. In this video from 2014 you can watch her play one…

We Found Hip Hop Retreat

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• Posted on September 2, 2019

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In September of 2019, We Found Hip Hop, an organization dedicated to celebrating women in hip hop, is hosting a retreat for women hip hop in Idlewood, MI. We Found Hip Hop’s mission is: “Our mission is to educate and empower the community through sharing love of the arts, inspiring growth, building leadership, and influencing…

Producer Profile: Kyler England

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• Posted on July 29, 2019

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Kyler England is a Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and producer. She is a part of the three person band The Rescues which was signed to Universal Republic. She is also a part of two musical duos Freckleland and The Fire & The Sea. The former is a children’s music duo; their music is described as…

Terri Lyne Carrington Named as one of 2019’s Doris Duke Artists

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• Posted on July 17, 2019

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Terri Lyne Carrington, along with five others, has been named one of The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s 2019 Doris Duke Artists. Terri, who is a Grammy Award-winning drummer and the artistic director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, received the award for her work in jazz. All Doris Duke Artists receive a…

An Update From BBC: 2018’s Festival Gender Equity Pledge

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• Posted on June 28, 2019

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Last year, Vanessa Reed founded the Keychange 50/50 pledge which aimed to resolve a glaring gender disparity in festival lineups. Reed is the founder of Keychange, CEO of the PRS Foundation, and was named third most powerful woman in the music industry. This week BBC published an article that revealed updated goals for the 50/50…

Spotify’s Sound Up Bootcamp Now Accepting Submissions

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• Posted on June 12, 2019

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Spotify’s Sound Up Podcast Program is now accepting applications through June 21st. Sound Up is a Spotify program to support women of color who are also podcast creators. 10 applicants are chosen to attend a weeklong workshop in NYC and at the end of the program, participants will present their idea to a panel which…