About GEAW

The Gender Equity Audio Workshop is an in-depth workshop for a small group of women and gender-expansive people working professionally in the music industry and recording arts. A hands-on learning experience hosted at Great North Sound Society in beautiful Southern Maine, this workshop aims to create a collaborative, exploratory space where participants can feel confident and empowered, trusting their creative voices while developing the technological skills to fully implement their musical vision. Participants will explore and practice audio recording techniques in a professional studio under the guidance of an experienced female engineer. Our guest mentor for the 2025 GEAW is engineer Alli B. Rogers. She is the in-house engineer at Sylvan Esso's studio, Betty's, in Chapel Hill, NC. She has worked with artists like Sylvan Esso, Bon Iver, Hurray for the Riff Raff, the Tallest Man on Earth, Flock of Dimes, and many more!

GEAW was concieved by musicians Carolyn Kendrick and Isa Burke, who are longtime friends and collaborators. Carolyn and Isa will host the workshop alongside the guest mentor. This project was born when they realized they shared a desire to help lower the barriers of entry for women musicians looking to improve their production and engineering skills.

Marginalized people in male-dominated audio spaces often don’t feel comfortable asking questions for fear of looking ignorant, being talked down to, or being taken less seriously as artists and creators of recorded sound.

Learning more about the recording process at a professional level can be difficult without access to recording spaces and gear, which are often prohibitively expensive or only available to those who already have the skills. With generous funding from our sponsors (including The Iguana Music Fund), we are able to offer this workshop to participants free of charge.

We hope this workshop will provide a space where no question is dumb, where a lack of knowledge or experience diminishes no one’s creativity, and where everyone can pursue production simply because they want to.