Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship – She’s Connected by AT&T Mentoring Program

Mentoring Program

In 2022, The Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship, with generous support from AT&T and the She’s Connected by AT&T initiative, launched its first Mentoring Program with the goal of mentoring 10 additional conductors each year. Now in its second year, the Fellowship has added 20 additional conductors to the TACF family and is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 Mentee cohort.

In addition to providing free mentoring to additional conductors, the Mentoring Program is providing Mentoring experience to TACF alumni conductors, expanding the TACF network of women conductors, and collecting research and data to create a mentoring model for the future.

To be able to be part of this program has been a huge inspiration for me. The fact that a personality like Marin, the mentors and all the people working to make this program possible, all of you with incredible busy agendas devotes time and energy to help young conductors in the beginning of the career creates heartwarming sense of hope and belonging to a community, which is particularly significant given the competitive and solitary nature of this profession.

2022-2023 Mentee

As part of the AT&T collaboration, Alsop and Alexandra Arrieche (TACF 2011 Fellow) were featured in the She’s Connected campaign shared across digital and social platforms. Launched in 2020, She’s Connected showcases the multi-hyphenate nature of women in sports and mentorship. AT&T is taking action to address the inequality many women face by supporting them in and out of their respective professional fields. In doing so, AT&T deepens its commitment to women in sports and entertainment, as well as women in business through “She’s Connected by AT&T.”

Sabina Ahmed, Assistant Vice President of Sponsorships and Experiential Marketing at AT&T, elaborates:

“The AT&T She’s Connected program is proud to support the next generation of female conductors through the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship Mentoring Program. Using our platform allows us to elevate women and create impactful change through mentorship now and in the future to help them achieve anything they aspire to accomplish.”