Recording Academy Forms Music Education & Professional Development Committee ‘To Ignite Possibility’

The Recording Academy has established the Music Education & Professional Development Committee (MEPD). The committee, co-chaired by manufacture executives Nikisha Bailey and Riggs Morales, aims to heighten synergies and amplify the Academy’s efforts astir mentorship and acquisition among the organization’s 12 chapters, Grammy U, the Grammy Museum, MusiCares, The Latin Recording Academy and the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation.

“This committee was developed to ignite anticipation done bold, hands-on learning experiences and nonrecreational improvement that lone the academy tin deliver,” Dr. Chelsey Green, seat of the Recording Academy’s committee of trustees, said successful a statement. “We’re dedicated to bringing our acquisition enactment to a planetary stage, opening doors of entree and consciousness to our rank similar ne'er before. … We are lone opening to unlock however almighty the academy’s exclusive Grammy acquisition experiences tin beryllium successful shaping the aboriginal of music.”

“Nikisha and Riggs embody the tone of intentional mentorship and bold imaginativeness that volition propel this committee’s enactment to interaction the world,” Dr. Green added. “Their enactment volition grow the academy’s acquisition reach, link communities, and bring a caller attack to curating opportunities for members to prolong and turn their careers.”

Bailey has been astatine the nexus of creator improvement and exertion for companies specified arsenic APG (Artist Partner Group), Atlantic Records, Nvak Collective and Universal Music Group. Bailey presently serves arsenic a trustee from the Recording Academy’s New York chapter. She was besides an ambassador for the academy’s Black Music Collective.

Morales has been a fixture successful euphony for implicit 2 decades, archetypal arsenic a writer for publications specified arsenic The Source, XXL and The Fader, and aboriginal arsenic a grounds enforcement astatine Eminem’s Shady Records, Atlantic Records, Def Jam and Republic Records. Riggs has served connected the Recording Academy’s nationalist committee of trustees from the New York chapter. In October 2020, helium was instrumental successful launching the academy’s Black Music Collective.