The Academy of Country Music Reveals 2025 LEVel Up Cohort, Featuring Ten Rising Leaders in Country Music Industry

The Academy of Country Music Reveals 2025 LEVel Up Cohort,

Featuring Ten Rising Leaders in Country Music Industry

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NASHVILLE, TN (December 13, 2024) - Today (12.13), the Academy of Country Music's LEVel Up: Lift Every Voice program reveals the class of individuals selected for the lauded program's 2025 cohort. Designed to elevate and drive the next generation of rising leaders in the Country Music industry, this two-year, intensive program is funded entirely by the Academy, with a mission to empowering participants to find new and exciting ways of transcending demographics and geography to expand the horizons of Country Music.

Comprised of 10 young professionals with careers rooted in multiple facets of the industry - from performing rights organizations to management companies, record labels and more - nearly all members of the 2025 LEVel Up cohort come from organizations that have not had previous program representation. Spanning to all corners of the Country Music industry, they join an impressive list of more than 30 unique organizations represented by program members since LEVel Up's inception in 2022.

ACM LEVel Up, 2025 Cohort:

• 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

ACM LEVel Up, 2024 Cohort (entering into Year 2 of the program):

• 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

The ACM LEVel Up Rising Leaders curriculum was created to empower participants to play a pivotal role in expanding the horizons of the Country Music industry into new audiences that transcend demographics and geography. During this two-year program, which is funded entirely by the Academy, participants spend their first year learning from thought leaders across the industry, while also collaborating as a cohort to develop a proposed plan to expand Country Music's reach to a new and underrepresented audience. In the cohort's second year, the class implements their plan, working intentionally to shape the future of the genre and move the Country Music industry forward in new, exciting ways.

"We are so excited about the new group of LEVel Up members, who are and will continue to be an integral part of the growth and evolution of the country music industry," says Vipin Reddy, Chair of the ACM Lifting Voices Council. "The 2024 cohort raised the bar for affecting change with results-driven work, and we are thrilled to welcome our outstanding 2025 members to continue the great work of LEVel Up and ACM."

For more information on ACM LEVel Up: Lift Every Voice program, please visit acmcountry.com/levelup or reach out via email to [email protected]. 

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