Fabi Reyna
Founder/Editor in Chief
She Shreds
Fabi Reyna is the Founder of She Shreds Magazine and organizer for Shred Fest. She began playing guitar at the age of 9 and has been an integral part of her music community ever since. Past music g...
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Fabi Reyna is the Founder of She Shreds Magazine and organizer for Shred Fest. She began playing guitar at the age of 9 and has been an integral part of her music community ever since. Past music gigs include U.S and European tours as a guitar and bass player with numerous bands as well as booking shows during SXSW and even more fun basement shows. Current and past bands include The Ghost Ease, Newman/Schonberg/Reyna Group, Reynosa, Sexhair, and Chain & the Gang.
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Kiran Gandhi
Artist in Residence
Stem
Kiran Gandhi is currently a second-year MBA at Harvard University who worked previously as a digital analyst at Interscope Records in Los Angeles. In 2013, she toured internationally for artist M.I...
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Kiran Gandhi is currently a second-year MBA at Harvard University who worked previously as a digital analyst at Interscope Records in Los Angeles. In 2013, she toured internationally for artist M.I.A. as her drummer across Europe, North America, Japan and Latin America. Kiran recently gave a TEDx talk in Brooklyn on a concept she calls "Atomic Living" that examines how to manage seemingly conflicting passions.
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Michele Fleischli
Artist Rel
The Windish Agency
Michele has been an artist manager for two decades, having guided the careers of Bad Religion, Sonic Youth, Beck, Tenacious D, Ryan Adams and Charlotte Gainsbourg, as well as provided support for F...
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Michele has been an artist manager for two decades, having guided the careers of Bad Religion, Sonic Youth, Beck, Tenacious D, Ryan Adams and Charlotte Gainsbourg, as well as provided support for Foo Fighters, Beastie Boys, Rage Against The Machine, Queens of the Stone Age, Norah Jones, Jimmy Eat World and Band of Horses. Michele has produced wide-ranging and large-scale projects from Tenacious D's now-annual music and comedy festival (Festival Supreme) to Beck's collaboration with Lincoln Motor for the car company's “Hello Again” campaign. "Hello Again" featured 160+ musicians performing live in the round, with Beck at the center of it all, and was captured by visionary director Chris Milk.
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Sadie Dupuis
Guitarist
Speedy Ortiz
Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the band Speedy Ortiz. She has recently been featured in NPR, Vogue, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Amy Poehler’s Funny Girls, among others. Speed...
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Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the band Speedy Ortiz. She has recently been featured in NPR, Vogue, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Amy Poehler’s Funny Girls, among others. Speedy Ortiz was named artist of the year for 2015 by Noisey / Vice. Sadie also creates music under the moniker, Sad13 - releasing "Basement Queens" via Google in January 2016. Sadie holds a MFA in poetry.
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Tom Barnes
Staff Writer & Editor
Mic
Female musicians rock. Beyoncé is a feminist, and bands like HAIM, Alabama Shakes, and Pussy Riot have progressed recognition of female musicians in recent years. As more and more female musicians gain awareness, it’s become increasingly important to take a step back and analyze how female musicians are represented in mainstream media and advertising today, what improvements have been made and what challenges we still face as an industry. Hear industry leaders come together to discuss the present and future of representations of women in music media.