Girls Make Beats Summit 2025 Celebrates International Day of the Girl: Best Photos

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L.A.-based middle- and high-school students spoke with execs, practiced DJing, took a How to Make a Beat masterclass and more.

The Girls Make Beats Summit successful Los Angeles, California, connected October 10, 2025.

Girls Make Beats — a non-profit empowering the adjacent procreation of pistillate producers, DJs and engineers — hosted a acme for section middle- and high-school girls astatine Paramount Pictures successful Los Angeles connected Friday (Oct. 10) successful grant of International Day of the Girl.

Approximately 500 students from L.A., Compton and Inglewood spoke with executives and creatives specified arsenic Rochelle Balogun, elder hip-hop & Afro programmer astatine Amazon Music; Qiana Conley Akinro, elder enforcement manager of the Recording Academy LA Chapter; producer/songwriter Trinity; and songwriter Whitney Phillips during velocity mentor sessions. The girls besides practiced DJing done virtual world with Tribe XR and with Serato done TEC Leimert, a Black-owned non-profit dedicated to helping communities of colour to support gait with technological innovations successful an effort to span a increasing integer divide. Other activations astatine the Girls Make Beats Summit included jamming with pinkish and purple Girls Make Beats branded guitars successful the Plug and Play area, learning astir the audio transportation modification instrumentality Melodyne with the philharmonic bundle institution Celemony, and checking retired Mobile Sessions, a mobile recording/mix/live accumulation workplace built wrong of an RV.

The girls aboriginal filed into the Paramount Theatre, wherever they were treated to a show of “Big Screen” by Girls Make Beats lawsuit shaper Stichiz and Janice & The JAC Trio, and greeted by big Kaiya Nyasha. Randy Spendlove, president of worldwide euphony and publishing astatine Paramount Pictures, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. and Phylicia Fant, planetary caput of euphony manufacture and civilization collaborations, delivered much remarks. Later, the girls tuned into the “What Is Sync Licensing?” store with Racquelle Proctor, elder manager of originative euphony strategy astatine Paramount, and the “How to Make a Beat” masterclass with Girls Make Beats laminitis Tiffany Miranda. And 3 students won the $1,700 You Glow Girl scholarship.

Girls Make Beats was besides honored by Janelle Monáe astatine Songwriters of North America’s 5th yearly Warrior Awards connected Sunday evening (Oct. 12).

See immoderate of the champion photos from the Girls Make Beats Summit below:

Image Credit: Courtesy of Girls Make Beats

The Girls Make Beats Summit successful Los Angeles, California, connected October 10, 2025.
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