ACM
LEVel Up

Lifting Every Voice: a two-year program for rising leaders in country music, funded wholly by the Academy of Country Music at no cost to participants.

ACM LEVel Up participants

About the program

ACM LEVel Up: Lifting Every Voice program is a two-year professional development and enrichment curriculum for rising leaders in Country Music, designed to empower participants to play a pivotal role in expanding the horizons of Country Music into new audiences that transcend demographics and geography. The program’s first year is spent learning as well as collaborating to develop a proposed plan to expand Country Music’s reach into new and underrepresented audience segments; the second, implementing said plan. The program is funded wholly by the Academy of Country Music at no cost to participants.

Class of 2025

Allie Bartone

Red Light Management

Lilly Brown

BMI

Zoe Cummins

Songwriter

Tanner Davenport

White Boy MGMT & Black Opry

Hope Garrison

Triple Tigers

Krista Hayes-Pruitt

BBRMG/BMG

Samantha Kane

Grand Ole Opry

Matt Najdowski

Farris, Self & Moore, LLC

Ashley Negrillo

Maverick Nashville

Jess Tomlins

Neon Coast

Class of 2024

Alexes Aiken

Westwood One

Jackie Ebnet

mtheory

Haley Fairman

United Talent Agency

Kenyon Glenn

ASCAP

David Hawkins

MY Public Relations Lab

Lacey Hayes

Romeo Entertainment Group

Gator Pizer

Farris, Self & Moore

Nathan Pyle

Songfluencer

Lizzy Stone

Wiles + Taylor & Co.

Bryan Webb

Apple Music

Class of 2023

Sabrina Butera

CAA

Nick Coulson

SiriusXM/The Highway

Ellen Ford

BBR Music Group

Aimee Graham

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Synnovea Halsel

Sony Music Publishing

Alex Heimerman

Universal Music Group Nashville

Roxy King

UMPG

Markus Koger

Smoking Section Podcast

Jenn Tressler

Opry Entertainment Group

Class of 2022

Kaela Allen

Singer/Songwriter

Mackenzie Cooper

Triple Tigers Records

Stephanie Davenport

Warner Music Nashville

Morgan Kenney

WME

Daniel Killian

FBMM

Shelby White

AEG Presents

Class announcements

ACM OnRamp

Members of the ACM LEVel Up 2022 cohort played an active role in guiding the ACM x BMAC OnRamp program and bringing it to life.