Melissa VincentCA
Melissa Vincent is a music journalist and researcher based in Toronto. Her work broadly investigates inquiries of equity, intimacy, and community formation as it relates to music, technology, and culture. In 2022, she was nominated for a Digital Publishing Award by the National Media Awards Foundation in the category for Best Science and Technology Storytelling for her essay, Ethical AI has Not Solved Tech’s Problem with Racism.
She’s a frequent guest and correspondent analyzing breaking music stories on CBC’s The National, the flagship news and current affairs television program from Canada’s public broadcaster. Her work has appeared in Elle Canada, The Globe and Mail, Billboard, NPR Music, Pitchfork, and The Fader among others. She has produced podcasts for the Toronto Public Library and This Is Pop, an 8-part music docuseries on Netflix. She’s a Prism Prize juror, a SOCAN Songwriting Prize Panelist, a member of the Toronto Music Advisory Committee, and the Polaris Prize jury foreperson.
She is an incoming PhD student in Data, Networks, and Society at the London School of Economics, and was an inaugural research fellow at the Collaboratory for Black Poiesis at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto.
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