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Valeisha Butterfield Jones, the co-president of the Recording Academy, is exiting the organization and will join Google in a vice president role focused on diversity.Butterfield Jones joined the organization behind the Grammys as its chief diversity officer in 2020, and she was elevated to co-president in June 2021 alongside Panos A. Panay. The Academy will continue to be led by CEO Harvey Mason Jr.
and president Panay. No new co-president will be named at this time. Senior management whom previously reported to Butterfield Jones will now report directly to Mason.Butterfield Jones will begin at Google as vice president, partnerships, in October.
She worked at Google prior to joining the Recording Academy as the global head of inclusion. Butterfield Jones was recently appointed an honorary co-chair of the Black Music Collective, and she will continue to be involved with the Recording Academy, with additional details about her involvement to be announced in the coming months.“This is a bittersweet moment for our Recording Academy family. We are all heartbroken that Valeisha is leaving us but also, so thankful for and proud of the incredible work she has done with us over the past two years,” Mason Jr.
said in a statement. “She has been the perfect partner and someone I feel truly lucky to have worked so closely with. She has made me a better CEO and definitely made our Academy a better organization.” In her role as co-president and before that as chief diversity officer, Butterfield Jones oversaw the Recording Academy’s people and culture, membership and awards and related initiatives, and she also spearheaded several diversity efforts and campaigns, such as the Women in the Mix study, the Black Music Collective and the
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Valeisha Butterfield Jones, co-president of the Recording Academy, is exiting the company after just less than a year in the role to return to a new role at her previous company Google. The Grammy organizer confirmed the news Friday.
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn a surprise move, Recording Academy co-president Valeisha Butterfield Jones will leave the organization to return to Google, taking a new vice president role on the internet giant’s diversity team.Butterfield Jones joined the Academy in 2020 as chief diversity officer and became co-president with Panos Panay almost exactly a year ago. She played a key role in CEO Harvey Mason jr.’s “modernized leadership team” and oversaw the organization’s people and culture, membership, awards and related initiatives.The Academy will continue to be led by Mason as CEO and Panay as president; the org will not name an additional co-president at this time.
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