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Leslie Gaston-BirdOwner, Mix Messiah Productions
Leslie Gaston-Bird CAS, MPSE is the Audio Engineering Society’s President-Elect. She is a Pro Tools | Dolby Professional Avid Certified Instructor and Dante Level-3 Certified audio engineer specializing in re-recording mixing and sound editing. She is author of the book Women in Audio, part of the AES Presents series published by Focal Press (Routledge). She is a voting member of the Recording Academy (The Grammys®) and its P&E Wing.
Leslie is a doctoral candidate at the University of Surrey working on a dissertation titled “Immersive and Inclusive”, for which she received support from Innovate UK’s Women in Innovation programme.
She was the inaugural chair of the AES Diversity and Inclusion (now DEI) Committee. Prior to that, she was a tenured Associate Professor of Recording Arts at the University of Colorado Denver (2005-2018) where she also served as Chair of the Department of Music and Entertainment Industry Studies and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of York in 2011.
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- Oct 30 2024
- Expired!
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- 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
AES Central Region, Europe Event DE&I Colloquium
AES Germany Hosts Its First Research Colloquium on Diversity and Inclusion in Audio Engineering We are excited to announce the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Germany’s very first Research Colloquium on Diversity and Inclusion in Audio Engineering. This event will focus on important issues including the gender pay gap, strategies for overcoming obstacles in male-dominated industries, and the inclusion of individuals with disabilities in the audio engineering field. We will explore how different countries are addressing these challenges and what we can learn from one another.
The colloquium will bring together experts who will share insights and real-world examples from both industry and research. Our featured speakers include Leslie Gaston-Bird, President of the AES, Dr. Jiayue Cecilia Wu and Mary Mazurek, chairs of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee at AES and Michelle Guadalupe Felix Garcia, an advocate for equal employment opportunities for professionals with disabilities. We are also pleased to have Ingo Weismantel share insights from the “Women in Sound” discussion series by the German Association for Audio Professionals (VDT). This colloquium presents a unique opportunity to engage in meaningful discussions and explore actionable solutions for creating more inclusive and accessible workplaces in audio engineering.
Event Contact: Anna Leschanowsky
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