Stacey Williams on Clubhouse

Bio

Stacey Williams is the proprietress of Jazz Cat Herder, LLC (JCH). Jazz Cat Herder’s primary focus is on arts organization management and the ongoing development of financial literacy and business acumen in new and established talent.  Jazz Cat Herder has taken the lead in providing an introduction to the business side of the entertainment industry to middle- and high-school aged artists and their parents, empowering them to make more educated and profitable business decisions.
 
A few of her most notable clients have been: Grammy winner and Jazz saxophonist David Sanchez; Music Educator/Executive Director of the Jazz Arts Institute, Davey Yarborough; and Musicians Michael Bowie and Manny Kellough. Stacey was instrumental in the start-up and business development of the $2.5M Festivals DC and its flagship project the $1.5M week-long Duke Ellington Jazz Festival (re-branded as the DC Jazz Festival).
 
Stacey’s other clients have been the Tiger Woods Foundation/AT&T National Golf Tournament; the Bill Picket Invitational Rodeo (BPIR); First Star; the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; Smithsonian Folklife Festival; National Geographic Society; Amnesty International and the US Postal Service.
 
Stacey currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Arts Administrators of Color (AAC), the Advisory Board for Marketing Opportunities in Business and Entertainment (MOBE), and the Planning Committee for the Musicianship’s WAMMIES. She is the Virginia Delegate of the DMV Music Stakeholders, an organization which advocates for the rights and concerns of DMV area musicians.
 
Stacey is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). She also holds a BS in Computer Automated Systems and an AAS in Computer Programming and System Analysis from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. In addition, Stacey hold a TESOL certification allowing her to teach English to speakers of other languages.
 
Follow her: on twitter: @jazzcatherder; Instagram: #jazzcatherder; LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceywilliams/ ; Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/tonedeafe/ or www.jazzcatherder.com