Charisse Beaumont

Dr Charisse Beaumont is the CEO of Black Lives in Music (BLiM), founded in 2020 to champion equality for Black and ethnically diverse musicians. Under her leadership, BLiM has delivered landmark research such as Being Black in the UK Music Industry and launched Classically Black, the UK’s first classical music festival for underrepresented talent. Her work has earned widespread recognition, including being named the AIM Awards 2023 Diversity Champion, a place on Music Week’s Women in Music Roll of Honour in 2022, and Campaigner of the Year at the 2024 Music Week Awards. She sits on the DCMS Licensing Taskforce, the boards of Help Musicians and LIVE, and advises WarChild UK. She is also a founding member of REMEL (Race Equality in Music Events Licensing). In 2023, Dr Beaumont was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music from the University of West London, and in 2025, she received an honorary degree from the University of York.