About Speaker

Leslie Gaston-Bird is a freelance re-recording mixer and sound editor, the owner of Mix Messiah Productions, and the author of the book Women in Audio. Currently based in Brighton, England, Leslie has worked in the industry for over 30 years with a career spanning public radio, sound for picture and university education. She was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, and began pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Surrey upon moving to the U.K. She is a voting member of the Recording Academy, the Co-Director for SoundGirls U.K. Chapter, and feels it is an honor and a privilege to share the stories of the women in her book with the audio community and beyond.