Episode 55: Women's Audio Mission

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“Less than 5% of the people that are creating all of the things that make up the soundtrack to our lives every day are women or gender nonconforming folks or gender diverse”-Elena Botkin-Levy

In this episode we feature the voices of Managing Director Elena BotKin–Levy and the Director of Education Leah King of Women’s Audio Mission

Women’s Audio Mission is another one of our unique nonprofits that provide both skills training and a global learning community that empowers women and gender diverse individuals to develop, produce and share their stories and the stories of our fellow community members as well as build career pathways in the audio production ecosystem.

Leah King

Leah King is an arts educator, music producer, and Oakland native. A trained facilitator, Leah has pedagogical specializations in Culturally Responsive Education, Socio-Emotional Learning, Trauma-Informed Care, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for youth and adults. Though she is back in the Bay now, her heart occasionally longs for New York City, where she trained teachers in the NYC Department of Education, managed arts education programs at Brooklyn Academy of Music, taught self-resilience at Center for Anti-Violence Education, and volunteered with Girls Rock Camp for over a decade. Leah also lived in Berlin for many years where she was a touring musician, DJ, and go-go dancer sharing the stage with artists like Mykki Blanco, Big Freedia, and Eve Ensler, while teaching thousands of German school kids how to breakdance. A current member of female:pressure international DJ network, Leah is thrilled to be geeking out on audio education at WAM.

Elena Botkin-Levy

Elena Botkin-Levy has worked at the intersection of youth development and media-making for over a decade. Before joining WAM in 2019, she previously served as Director of Media Education at YR Media (formerly Youth Radio) where she led the design and implementation of multimedia training programs for Bay Area high schools students. She managed out Loud Radio, a queer youth media-making program and ran the radio station and training program for young people at ZUMIX in East Boston. Producing radio as a teenager propelled Elena into the media world where she’s produced freelance pieces and supported the work of Prometheus Radio Project, the National Radio Project and Free Speech Radio News. Elena is an alumni of Temple University, a collector of oral histories, and an aspiring drummer.

Women’s Audio Mission

Women's Audio Mission is a San Francisco/Oakland-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of women and gender diverse individuals in music production and the recording arts. In a field where women & gender diverse individuals are critically underrepresented (less than 5%), WAM seeks to "change the face of sound" by providing hands-on training, experience, career counseling and job placement in media technology for music, radio, film, television and the internet. WAM trains 4,000+ women/girls/gender-diverse individuals every year in music production and the recording arts. WAM was named “Best Hope for the Future of Music” by the SF weekly for our work addressing the chronic gender gap in music production since 2003. For more information, visit www.womensaudiomission.org Instagram & Facebook: @womensaudiomission Twitter: @womensaudio Check out the Girls on the Mic Spring Showcase Event on May 21s through WAM’s YouTube Channel

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“So if someone can feel encouraged and supported and enlivened by what happens in our classrooms, we know that that’s just going to have reverberations throughout the rest of her life, and also for people who look like her, you know, so that’s really what we’re going for.”

— Leah King,Director of Education,Women's Audio Mission

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