MINH NGUYEN
Cecilia Corsano-Leopizzi, a freelance talent agent and former director of marketing at Decibel Festival, was so tired of hearing male promoters tell her that there wasn’t enough female talent to book at their venues that she made an Excel spreadsheet to prove them wrong.
The spreadsheet, which included 160 names of female-identified DJs and performers in the Pacific Northwest, was proof, she says, for bookers and club owners that there’s a growing list of “awesome people that would totally fit your lineup and love the chance. Now you have no reason to not book them.”…