Leadership Music Launches New Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee
Pictured (L-R): LM Executive Director Debbie Linn, Chuck Harmony (LM ’19), Gina Miller (LM ’22), Claude Kelly (LM ’18), Paul Kwami (LM ’06), Scott Gerow (LM ’19), Jackie Patillo (LM ‘02), Mitch Glazier (LM ’10), Rachel Whitney (LM ’13), Otto Price (LM ’08), Lisa Purcell (LM ‘17), Phil Hughley (LM ’15), Debbie Carroll (LM ‘01), Chester Thompson (LM ’95), Bret Wolcott (LM ’07), Lane Wilson (LM ’12), David Kells (LM ’14), Shannon Sanders (LM ’17). Not pictured: Erick Long (LM ’16) and Tuwisha Rogers-Simpson (LM ’22)
BMI hosted a mixer on May 19 for Leadership Music’s Board of Directors and Black alumni to celebrate the creation of Leadership Music’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. The committee is co-chaired by Phil Hughley (LM ’15), Erick Long (LM ’16) and Shannon Sanders (LM ’17).
Leadership Music was founded in 1989 by 12 music industry execs who had graduated from Leadership Nashville. They recognized that there was a unique sense of camaraderie to the Nashville music community and a need for a program designed to ensure and protect the dialogue and relationship building within the Nashville music community.
Currently the national program in Nashville has graduated more than 1,300 leaders from across the country in virtually every segment of the entertainment industry, as well as community leaders, including two Nashville mayors, the deputy chief of police and a Tennessee Congressman.
