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.
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
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.