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. Chair
Riikka Pietilainen-Caffrey
Katelyn Halbert (Multi-committee)

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
Asst. Migawa Miyajima, Morgan Davis, 

Pauline Alderman Awards – honoring writing about women and music
Monica Buckland 2022-2023
Jennifer Lamont, 2024

Concert – plans the annual IAWM concert
Eline Cote, Chair

Education Grant – grants for educators ages 4-18
Jennifer Lamont

Programming Award – honoring performers who program and advocate for music by women
Jennifer Lamont

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
Krista Wilhelmsen
Deborah Nemko, Student Chapters

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
Christina Butera, Webmaster, Radio Requests, Web Content
Leah Reid, Web Content
Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Listserv

Media / Video
Sabrina Peña Young

Journal
Eve R. Meyer, Journal Editor in Chief
Elizabeth Keathley, Associate Editor
Christina Reitz, Associate Editor
Laura Pita, Anita Hanawalt and Samantha Ege

Webinars –  a series of presentations/workshops/seminars
Migawa Miyajima

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.

OPEN, Chair
Elizabeth Momand – preplanning

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.

Christina Rusnak, Chair
Deb Saidel
OPEN

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.

Morgan Davis, Chair
Gaby Alvarado, Co-chair

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. Contact [email protected] or committee chair if you are interested in joining the board and/or serving on one of IAWM’s committees.

Jamie Reimer, Chair

Historian

The Historian works with the Secretary, Communications, Membership Committee, and the rest of the board in documenting organizational activities and history, member information, board meetings, and decisions, awards communication, and statistics.

OPEN

Advisory Board

Jennifer Higdon
Composer
Curtis Institute
Philadelphia, PA

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