Girls on the Mic: Media Production & Creative Technology Training for Girls - Women's Audio Mission
Business Details
Girls on the Mic (GOTM) is a groundbreaking after-school and summer program that provides FREE music production & digital media arts training & mentoring to 1,000+ SF Bay Area middle/high school age girls/yr from the most vulnerable communities. GOTM was designed to address the fact that less than 5% of the people creating all of the sounds, messages & media in our lives are women. The program provides FREE hands-on, project based classes in music production & digital media technology in a professional recording studio that's home to projects from Alanis Morrissette, Radiohead and Timbaland - providing access to musical instruments, creative technology & young women role models/mentors so that girls can learn to amplify their voices. The curriculum is rooted in the California Department of Education & National Core Media Arts Standards. WAM partners with 25+ San Francisco Bay Area schools to deliver the program.
About Women's Audio Mission
Women's Audio Mission (WAM) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of women/girls in music production, performance, & digital media, a field in which women are underrepresented (< 5%). WAM provides training, mentoring, career counseling & placement to 1,500+ under-served Bay Area women/girls a year in the only professional recording studio in the world built/run by women.
Accomplishments:
- 2,500+ classes given to 10,000 women/girls
- Placed 500+ women in paid positions (Google, Pixar, Dolby, NPR)
- White House Office of Social Innovation studied WAM's innovative programs for girls.
- Produced award-winning projects for 150+ artists - Grammy-winners Kronos Quartet, Angélique Kidjo (2014 Grammy), tUnE-yArDs, Clarence Jones (Martin Luther King's Speechwriter), an Oscar-nominated soundtrack, Salman Rushdie, providing work for 215+ women
Girls on the Mic: Media Production & Creative Technology Training for Girls - Women's Audio Mission