Office Hours with Roger Brown Jr. '78 and Liza Levy - Salt Lick Incubator

Join us for an informal discussion over coffee and snacks to learn about careers in the music industry, what it takes to develop a career as a musician and artist, and what Salt Lick Incubator is all about. This event is primarily for Davidson College students.

Salt Lick Incubator is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit artist development organization supporting aspiring musicians in the early stages of their creative journeys. The Incubator seeks to help these musicians develop artistically, sustain their well-being, and forge viable careers.

Roger Brown, Jr. '78 is the chair and founder of the Salt Lick Incubator—the next phase in a career that has had many chapters. During his 20s, Roger spent several years living and working abroad; first as a teacher in rural Western Kenya, then in refugee programs in Thailand/Cambodia and Sudan.

He next founded Bright Horizons Family Solutions with his wife Linda Mason, becoming the leading provider of workplace child care in the US and beyond. The organization currently employs over 30,000 people in five countries and has been recognized as a great place to work and a leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

In 2004, Roger assumed the Presidency of Berklee College of Music where he served for 17 years. Brown is an avocational drummer and songwriter. The Salt Lick Incubator emerged from his observation during his Berklee tenure that while most very successful musicians are talented, most talented musicians are not as successful as they might be. The incubator is an effort to help launch the careers of talented musicians and improve their likelihood of building a sustainable career.

Liza Levy started her career as the tour manager for a children’s recording group out of Massachusetts on Zoe records. She was subsequently hired full time at Rounder Records where she remained for over a decade moving from Children’s Marketing Specialist, to project manager, through the Concord acquisition and an HQ move to Nashville where she led the marketing department.

She then moved to Los Angeles to work for Universal Music Group in the catalog division running point on commercial partnerships with Spotify. Artist franchises included The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Lil Wayne, The Motown Catalog, and Janet Jackson to name a few. She then made her way back to Boston where she served as talent relations liaison for Berklee College of Music, focused on creating industry pipelines for developing artists. Salt Lick Incubator is an amalgamation of Liza’s commercial and marketing knowledge with her passion for supporting up & coming talent. She is humbled to be on this journey with the incredible Salt Lick Incubator staff, donors, artist advisory board and President’s Leadership Council.

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