Chair: Nathaniel Marro

Meeting times: Every other Tuesday at 6 PM EST.

Committee Work: Policy & Research meetings are work sessions and a place for MWA members to gather and dive into specific topics that need further research to help guide discussions, campaigns and committees. The work done here will be used in discussion with elected officials, to help craft legislation, to help steer committee work and create surveys to collect data. Brainstorming and open discussions are often a part of these meetings. Work in these sessions helped inform the Sharing the Risk committee's efforts to get Music Workers access to $200M in NY State funds. All are welcome, no previous research experience is necessary!

Chairs: Jeanette Berry and Kasey Price

Meeting times: Every other Monday at 7:30pm EST (subject to change based on committee members’ schedules)

Committee Work: The Accountability and Community Safety (ACS) Committee is working on building foundations with our members to make our spaces safer. We have recently created several surveys including our Safe Spaces Survey, Confidential Incident Report Form , and Support Group Form. Anyone who is interested in this work is welcome and encouraged to come to a meeting. No experience or time commitment is required—just show up!

Chair: Campbell Charshee

Meeting Times: Once a month on Wednesdays at 11am EST, and intermittently as needed.

Committee Work: CC members regularly use Canva to create cards to post on IG and FB based on messaging developed in conjunction with other MWA committees. They also work with committees to develop messaging strategies for MWA campaigns, including social media, newsletters, press releases, and educational materials.

The Comms Committee is looking for members to help with a website overhaul and overall social media strategy! If you’re interested please fill out the join form below.

Chair: Aaron Edgcomb

Meeting times: Third Tuesday of the month at 2:00pm EST over Zoom

Committee Work: The Economic Justice in the Digital Domain (EJDD) Committee focuses on music worker rights and equity online and in the streaming economy. Our work has included representing independent music workers to congresspeople, launching our Streaming Justice! Campaign with the goal of creating substantive change to the online music marketplace, and coalition building amongst a wide range of arts workers organizations. In 2022 we gathered and submitted testimony to the US Copyright Office regarding the DMCA (the law that regulates music copyright online) - MWA's EJDD committee was the only group representing independent music workers to offer testimony regarding this critical statute and sat "across the table" from representatives of the major tech behemoths to defend Music Worker rights. Moving forward EJDD will continue to advocate for workers in the online and its overlapping political spheres.

Chair: Jean Cook

Meeting times: Once a month on Fridays

Committee Work: Increases financial capacity and sustainability of MWA; researches and pursues options for funding through foundations, grants, government support, donors and grassroots funding; educates and coaches members on how to fundraise; manages fundraising events/campaigns/subcommittees etc.

Chair: Ty Citerman

Meeting Times: Second Monday of the month at 8pm EST

Committee Work: Plan social and education events for members, onboard new members (i.e. reach out to people who've expressed interest in joining MWA and help them get plugged in), lead and organize general membership meetings.

Chair: Phillip Golub

Meeting times: scheduled as needed

Committee Work: OC work involves sharing our experiences and developing strategies to improve the situations we work in. Currently, OC members are working on developing a minimum standards document for various types of music work. We are also looking into specific complaints of poor treatment of music workers by venues.

Chairs: Cindy Li, Heather Mitchell

Meeting times: Scheduled as needed

Caucus Work: Discuss issues in the scene, plan educational events and skill-shares, and build solidarity and community. We’ve hosted two educational events so far: “How to Negotiate Fees for Performances” and “How to Build Relationships with Venues”, both via Zoom.

Chairs: Joseph Juntunen, Kasey Price

Meeting Times: Scheduled as needed

Caucus Goals: Build solidarity between sound engineers and artists; identify labour issues specific to sound engineers; create effective solutions to labour issues affecting sound engineers; improve wages and conditions for sound engineers; increase diversity, racial and gender equality in our craft.