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Tammy Hurt Honored by BILLBOARD

Tammy Hurt
Billboard Women in Music, the prestigious annual event established to recognize women in the music and entertainment industry have announced Atlanta’s Tammy Hurt as a 2025 executive honoree.  The goal is to honor women making significant contributions to the business and who inspire generations of women. the organization said.  Hurt for four years has served as chair of the Recording Academy’s Board of Trustees and the presiding officer of the Academy. She is the first openly out LGBTQIA+ officer in the Recording Academy’s 67-year history.  Through this position and throughout her Atlanta-based tenure, she has championed a deep level of equity and inclusion, with a focus on expanding and diversifying the Academy’s membership, making her a likely choice for this honor.
 
“Receiving this recognition is an incredible honor,” said Hurt. “Chairing the Board of Trustees these past four years and helping to steer the transformation of this iconic institution has been one of the greatest professional privileges of my lifetime.  I am deeply thankful for the opportunity to help drive meaningful change at the Recording Academy, from welcoming over 3,000 female voting members to advancing diversification and modernizing every aspect of the organization. The experience of building towards a new vision and seeing it come to life makes me especially grateful for the colleagues who collaborated with me, the supporters who stood by me, and the mentors who guided me. I share this honor with everyone I have had the privilege of serving alongside.“
Hurt’s contributions, the organization said, include introducing new and relevant Grammy categories such as Best African Music Performance, Best Alternative Jazz Album, and Best Pop Dance Recording. A drummer and a producer, she has been a vocal advocate for women’s safety in the industry, creating safer environments in the studio, on the stage, and on the road. Most recently, Hurt has turned her attention to the rights of music creators as AI increasingly becomes a factor in music creation, and she joined lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill alongside Academy executives.
 
Hurt is a Sonic Rebel, a genre-blurred music project that features original, high-fidelity music beds, mashups, and remixes all propelled forward at breakneck speed by her thunderous live drums.  Her most recent performance took place at the 2025 GRAMMYs when she joined the house band on stage, drawing praise from Metallica’s Robert Trujillo and record producer Andrew Watt.

Comcast’s Tracy Pitcher to Chair American Heart Association’s Heart Walk

Tracy Pitcher, senior vice president of Comcast Business Central Division, will chair the Heart Walk.

Tracy Pitcher, senior vice president of Comcast Business Central Division, will chair the American Heart Association Heart Walk, scheduled for September 2025 at Atlantic Station. Pitcher will lead top executives throughout the metro area to unite and recruit companies and organizations to join the Heart Walk, a year-round campaign aimed at raising funds to reduce cardiovascular disease while equipping people with education, knowledge and resources to act in the face of a cardiac emergency by learning CPR. Pitcher is an active member of the American Heart Association’s Atlanta Board of Directors.

“The American Heart Association encourages every household to have at least one person trained in CPR,” said Pitcher. “The impact of having a trained, confident lifesaver in every home across Atlanta cannot be overstated. Businesses, like Comcast, are helping to transform our community from passive bystanders into empowered lifesavers by donating to and participating in the American Heart Association’s Heart Walk. This initiative ensures that when a cardiac emergency occurs, there will always be someone prepared to intervene and make a life-saving difference.”

Cox Mobile Awards Scholarship Through Boys & Girls Clubs of Atlanta

Cox Mobile and Boys & Girls Clubs Award $25,000 scholarship to Louisiana teen for phone case design contest.

Atlanta-based Cox Mobile – which offers cell phone plans – teamed up with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to offer $25,000 scholarship to the winner of a teen mobile phone case design contest. The winner is Gracie A., a member of the Acadiana Boys & Girls Club in Louisiana. OtterBox will also manufacture her design on a phone case, to be sold in Cox Mobile retail stores and online. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Boys & Girls Clubs of America to support its mission of helping all young people reach their full potential. Gracie’s Club in Louisiana will also receive a $25,000 grant to open a Cox Innovation Lab, a space dedicated to providing kids and teens with the technology and resources they need to succeed.

“We are incredibly proud to celebrate Gracie and her exceptional talent,” said Colleen Langner, Chief Residential Officer for Cox Communications and Boys & Girls Clubs of America Southeast Trustee. “Her creativity and vision beautifully capture the spirit of this contest, and her phone case is one we are immensely proud to showcase in our retail stores. We’re excited to support Gracie and the future of so many others through our longstanding partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs of America.”

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