Kasie Kirkland is a Bronx native with extensive hands-on experience in New York’s underground music scene as a curator, promoter and performer. A recipient of VH1’s Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame scholarship, she attended New York University where she majored in Sociology and minored in the Business of Music, Entertainment and Technology. With an emphasis on strengthening youth and contributing to the arts community of her hometown, she has gone on to program and stage manage numerous projects with Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education. Before joining LMCC, she helmed the ground team for Rooftop Films first ever Drive In season as their Venue Manager for their Brooklyn Army Terminal and New York Hall of Science locations. She wishes to continue her close work in sustaining and uplifting creatives of all disciplines at LMCC – an organization she truly feels defines the ethos of “for the community, by the community”.