ABOUT OUR PROCESS
The Lewis Prize for Music Awards - 2021
The Lewis Prize for Music is dedicated to fairness, inclusion and transparency. The Prize Finalists and Awardees are chosen through a rigorous and comprehensive process that incorporates evaluation and input from diverse leaders in the fields of music, education, policy, research, philanthropy and community organizing. This includes young adult alumni leaders from creative youth development programs.
Below are lists of our Readers and Panelists as well as the applications and rubrics for each stage of our annual process.
ROUND ONE READERS (age 25 and under)
Sharniece Adams, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids
Alyssa Chetrick, The New School
Daphne Henderson, University of of Maryland at College Park
Rodney Johnson Jr., OneCommon Unity
Camille Jones, Voices Unheard
Amber Scales, Fair Fight Actions
Bisagna “Bisah” Suh, 4421 Productions
Jonathan Turner, Sipp Culture
ROUND ONE READERS (age 26 and over)
Edward Abeyta, University of California at San Diego
Jane Best, Manhattan Strategy Group
Mac Howison, The Heinz Endowments
Heather Ikmire, National Guild for Community Arts Education
Chloe Kline, Community MusicWorks
Joseph Mack, The David's Harp Foundation
Garret McQueen, Trilloquy
Monica Metzler, My Voice Music
Jenna Nicholas, Impact Experience
Jess Peña, Fairbanks Arts Association
Omari Rush, Culture Source
Juan Tejada, Musician
Roberto Uno, Arts in a Changing America
Robyne Walker Murphy, Groundswell
Tufara Waller Muhammad, Datule’ Artist Collective
Amir Whitaker, Project Knucklehead
SEMI-FINALIST REVIEW PANEL (comprised of the following Round One Readers)
Sharniece Adams, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids
Daphne Henderson, University of of Maryland at College Park
Camille Jones, Voices Unheard
Jess Peña, Fairbanks Arts Association
Omari Rush, Culture Source
Amber Scales, Fair Fight Actions
Bisagna “Bisah” Suh, 4421 Productions
Juan Tejada, Musician & Educator
Jonathan Turner, Sipp Culture
FINALIST REVIEW PANEL
Graham Boyd, Founding Executive Director, New Approach
Terri Lyne Carrington, Grammy Award-winning drummer, producer, and Founder and Artistic Director of the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice
Aisha Fukushima, Performance Lecturer, Justice Strategist, Singer/Songwriter, and Founder, RAPtivism
David Higareda, Alum and Mentor Artist, The David’s Harp Foundation
Natasha Rosairo, Alum and Development Associate, Community MusicWorks
Read our 2021 Round One Application and Rubric
Past Convenings and Processes
Readers and Rubrics
Readers and Panelists for our 2020 Covid-19 Community Response Grants
Readers and Panelists for our 2020 Accelerator Awards Process
Read our previous Accelerator Award Letter of Interest Rubric