Advocacy & Public Relations Committee

The Advocacy & Public Relations Committee aims to promote IAWM’s awareness worldwide, and stimulate membership through developing industry allies and memberships/partnerships, integrating projects that promote the music and awareness of women in music and outreach to media and broadcasting.

Rain Worthington, Co-Chair
Stacie Haneline, Co-Chair
Bianca Corrente, committee member

Radio Requests & Broadcasts – providing information on past, recent and upcoming broadcasts of music by women
Ursula Rempel and Linda Rimel

Awards & Concert Committee
The IAWM Awards / Concert Committee is comprised of four subcommittees that plan, administer, coordinate all entries, selects judges and and publicizes the IAWM annual concerts and awards.

Search for New Music (SNM) – honoring new compositions by women in several categories and genres
Moon-Sook Park, Chair

Pauline Alderman Awards – honoring writing about women and music
Jennifer Lamont

Concert – plans the annual IAWM concert
Eline Cote, Chair

Education Grant – grants for educators ages 4-18
Felicity Mazur-Park

Programming Award – honoring performers who program and advocate for music by women
Felicity Mazur-Park

Membership Committee

The Membership Committee verifies and maintains the informational database for all members, circulates a directory and executes the annual membership drive.

Angela Miller-Niles, Chair
Open
Deborah Nemko, Student Chapters

Internship Coordinator – Works with universities and individuals in managing IAWM’s Internship program.
Sabrina Clarke

For questions, please email [email protected]

Communications & Website Committee

The Communications Committee is responsible for all external communication from IAWM publishing, the IAWM website, Webinars, and social media sites. This committee works closely with the Advocacy, Membership, and Marketing committees and the rest of the board in developing organizational communication messaging. It is comprised of three subcommittees:

IAWM Website / Media / Video
Becky Brown, Webmaster, Radio Requests, Media and Video
Leah Reid, Web Content
Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Listserv

Journal
OPEN –  Journal Editor in Chief
Elizabeth Keathley, Associate Editor
Christina Reitz, Associate Editor
Jesus Ramos-Kittrell, Assistant Editor
Amy Zigler, Membership News
Kathleen Carter-Bell, Reviews Editor 
Meagan Hughes, Journal Administrator

Webinars – Interviews
Migawa Miyajima, Chair

Conference Committee

The Conference Committee vigilantly seeks out international and U.S. sites for future Conferences. Any institution wishing to host a Conference should contact the committee chair or president. During the two years preceding a Conference, the committee supports the preparations by the host committee.

Joanna Hersey, Chair
Anna Williams

Development Committee

Open, Chair
Open

Finance Committee

The committee coordinates with other IAWM committees on income-producing projects and approves all non-budgeted expenses. The chair is responsible for all financial transactions for IAWM, including financial updating, fiscal management, and developing the budget.

Katelyn Halbert, Chair
Christina Rusnak

Global Initiatives Committee

This committee works closely with the Advocacy, Membership and Communications committees and the rest of the board to foster and develop awareness, and connection with members throughout the world, forming diverse partnerships and transformative opportunities for membership expansion, alliance, equity, community engagement and outreach.  The Committee actively recruits member and potential board members from under-represented groups, geographies and musical disciplines.

Felicity Mazur-Park, Coordinator,
Open
Open

Nominations/Elections Committee

The IAWM board annually invites people to nominate themselves and others, with permission, to the IAWM board. The Nomination / Election Committee receives nominations and supporting materials, and facilitates the annual election of new board members. The Call for Nominations opens each year on June 15 and closes in early-mid August. Contact president@iawm or committee chair to learn more, or if you are interested in  serving on one of IAWM’s committees.

OPEN, Chair

Advisory Board

Jennifer Higdon
Composer
Curtis Institute
Philadelphia, PA

Terri Lynn Carrington
Jazz Artist, Educator, Composer, Producer
Berklee College of Music
Boston, MA