Nashville Business Journal recognizes
26 movers and shakers
MURFREESBORO — For the second straight year, MTSU professor
Beverly Keel, chair of the university’s highly touted Department of Recording
Industry, will be among the honorees receiving a Women in Music City Award from
The Nashville Business Journal.
Launched last year, the awards stem from The NBJ
soliciting nominations of women working in the music business “who are making a
creative and economic impact on the industry.” A judging committee of women
music professionals from Los Angeles and New York City reviewed and scored the
nominees, and an NBJ committee chose this year’s 26 winners, according to an
NBJ blog posting.
Beginning her third year of leading the recording
industry department within the College of Media and Entertainment, Keel
continues to build partnerships between MTSU and music industry leaders to
bring in accomplished guest lecturers and instructors. The former music
industry executive and award-winning journalist also works with faculty to
provide students with hands-on learning and career opportunities.
An MTSU alumna, Keel continues to work as a
journalist, writing for The Tennessean and Parade magazine, as well as other
publications, and serves as a music industry consultant. She is a co-founder of
Change the Conversation, a coalition created with Leslie Fram and Tracy Gershon
in 2014 to help women in the country music industry.
Keel is a graduate of Leadership Music, Leadership
Nashville and Leadership Middle Tennessee and serves on the boards of the Music
Makes Us and The Women’s Fund. She was inducted into the Metro Nashville Public
Schools Hall of Fame in May.
All honorees will be recognized at an awards dinner
at the Omni Nashville Hotel Sept. 24 and in a special printed NBJ publication
Sept. 25.
No comments:
Post a Comment