WAM is a San Francisco/Oakland-based nonprofit/recording studio dedicated to the advancement of women, girls, and gender-expansive people in music/audio production, performing/recording arts, and creative tech, fields in which they are critically underrepresented (< 5%). Over 19+ years, WAM has provided training to 25,000+ underserved women, girls, and gender-expansive people and commissioned 450+ artists/ensembles from 21 countries to create, record, and present new works to Bay Area audiences. WAM trains 2,000+ underserved people a year (including 1,500 under-resourced Bay youth) and has placed over 1,200 graduates in lucrative positions (Dolby, Facebook, Sweetwater). WAM’s world-class studio is the only in the world built/run entirely by women/gender-expansive staff.