Lifting Every Voice
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.
Lifting Every Voice
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.
Four cohorts of rising leaders
Each class represents an entirely new and unduplicated list of organizations from across the Country Music industry.
Class of 2025
- Allie Bartone
- Lilly Brown
- Zoe Cummins
- Tanner Davenport
- Hope Garrison
- Krista Hayes-Pruitt
- Samantha Kane
- Matt Najdowski
- Ashley Negrillo
- Jess Tomlins
Class of 2024
- Alexes Aiken
- Jackie Ebnet
- Haley Fairman
- Kenyon Glenn
- David Hawkins
- Lacey Hayes
- Gator Pizer
- Nathan Pyle
- Lizzy Stone
- Bryan Webb
Class of 2023
- Sabrina Butera
- Nick Coulson
- Ellen Ford
- Aimee Graham
- Synnovea Halsel
- Alex Heimerman
- Roxy King
- Markus Koger
- Jenn Tressler
Class of 2022
- Kaela Allen
- Mackenzie Cooper
- Stephanie Davenport
- Morgan Kenney
- Daniel Killian
- Shelby White
Meet the classes
OnRamp and membership
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.