Andrew McCluskey

This means engaging in activities that put others first, beyond the self interest of a single individual or organizational stakeholder, whether artist, label, festival booker, ticketing company, or other.

Curators face the same challenges artists do - getting discovered, building a reachable audience and earning a living. Independent music playlisters might have playlists with hundreds of thousands of followers, but no tools to reach those listeners, know who they are or attribute streams from their playlists.

So we should then examine every convention through its origin – especially within the context of social dynamics, power, and wealth.

It's about humanization. And I can't think of another way to imagine how we're going to get out of the crisis of racial hatred if not through the will to humanize." 7