Academy Adds 19 Members To Board

• Following this year’s annual Recording Academy® Board of Trustees meeting, 19 leaders of diverse backgrounds and disciplines have assumed their positions on the 2024-2025 Board of Trustees.

Effective June 1, the newly elected Trustees joined the Academy’s midterm Trustees, including National Officers Tammy Hurt (Chair), Dr. Chelsey Green (Vice Chair), Gebre Waddell (Secretary/Treasurer), and Christine Albert (Chair Emeritus) to uphold the Academy’s mission to serve and represent the music community at-large through its commitment to promote diversity, equity and inclusion, fight for creators’ rights, protect music people in need, preserve music’s history, and invest in its future. The full list of the Academy’s 2024-25 Board of Trustees is below:

Board members elected or reelected this year: Cheche Alara, Jennifer Blakeman, EJ Gaines, Taylor Hanson, Ken Shepherd, Justin “Henny” Henderson, Jessica Thompson, Torae Carr, Sara Gazarek,Nikisha Bailey, Dani Deahl, Maria Egan, Terry Jones, Fletcher Foster, Dave Gross, Ms. Meka Nism, Tamara Wellons, Mike Knobloch, & Ashley Shabankareh.

Here is the rest of the board: Ledisi, Christine Albert, Evan Bogart, Kennard Garrett, Eric Lilavois, Marcella Araica, Tammy Hurt, Susan Marshall, Gebre Waddell, Tracy Gershon, J. Ivy, Riggs Morales, Paul Wall, Julio Bagué, Dr. Chelsey Green, “Donn T” Thompson Morelli, Wayna, Larry Batiste, Angelique Kidjo, Marcus Baylor, Anna Frick, Jennifer Hanson, & Jonathan Yip.

“I’m honored to welcome this amazing group of creatives to our Board of Trustees,” said Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy. “Our Board’s expertise and dedication to helping music people everywhere has been essential to all we have achieved at the Academy. However, the work never stops, and I look forward to working alongside our new and current Trustees on ways we can continue to provide guidance for our music community.”