White Hall Arts Academy have just been named as a finalist for the fifth annual Accelerator Awards from the Lewis Prize for Music. WHAA provides free and subsidized conservatory level transformative arts education programs to the South L.A., Inglewood, Watts, and Compton communities and online.
She will be the first African-American and woman to hold the position.
The program is part of the Museum’s Grammy in the Schools offerings and is supported in part by Converse, Journeys, RBC Capital Markets, Hot Topic Foundation, and the Ford Motor Company Fund.
This year’s honorees included music executives Ashley Calhoun, Vice President of A&R at Pulse Music Group, Ericka Coulter, the Senior Director of A&R at Epic Records, and Roc Nation singer-songwriter Kirby Lauryen.
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