The Recording Academy is partnering with Colors of Change to produce diversity initiatives. “We have a clear understanding that the community is asking us for action,” says the Academy’s new diversity chief
detailing multiple allegations of organizational misconduct, along with sexual assault allegations against Portnow and Academy general counsel Joel Katz.
Portnow and Katz denied the allegations, and the Academy has repeatedly defended its voting process — but has acknowledged it needs more transparency. Butterfield Jones echoed that sentiment. “It’s a lot of excitement, but we have a clear understanding that the community is asking us for action. That means increased transparency,” Butterfield Jones says. “With the recent rulebook announcement, we feel that we’ve started to take some really bold steps as an organization to be more transparent about our rules and our practices. Transparency is definitely something we’re hearing a lot of feedback about.
The Academy is still searching for its next full-time CEO; Harvey Mason Jr. has held the interim post since Dugan’s ouster at the beginning of the year. Butterfield Jones, who is on the committee for the CEO search, says the Academy will be looking through a diverse slate of candidates, and that the CEO will be announced sometime in the first quarter of 2021, around the Grammy Award ceremony, which is currently scheduled for January 31st, 2021.
Today’s projects aren’t the first diversity-related shift the Academy has recently announced. In June, the Academy
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