Level Up


Level Up


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.


LEVel Up, 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
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LEVel Up, 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
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LEVel Up, 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
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