Aisha Moody

Aisha Moody is a nonprofit executive and arts education leader focused on expanding access to high-quality music education and youth development opportunities. She serves as Co-Founder and Chief Program Officer of the Atlanta Music Project (AMP), one of Atlanta’s leading youth arts nonprofits. In this role she has helped guide AMP’s growth from a startup community program, to one of Atlanta’s most impactful arts organizations, providing world-class music training and performance opportunities to students in historically under-resourced communities across Southwest Atlanta.

Moody oversees the organization’s artistic and programmatic strategy, faculty leadership, and community partnerships. Her work has focused on institution-building through high-quality, community-centered programming rooted in access and equity. Under her leadership, the Atlanta Music Project has developed a comprehensive tuition-free model that includes orchestra, band, choir, private lessons, international cultural exchanges, and college and career support services.

Drawing from the principles of the El Sistema model, Moody has helped shape programs that combine artistic rigor and long-term youth development and community engagement. She manages strategic partnerships with Atlanta Public Schools, the City of Atlanta Department of Parks & Recreation, and other civic and cultural institutions.

With more than two decades of experience in music education and youth development, Moody previously served as an award-winning public school music educator in Washington, D.C. and Cobb County, Georgia. In Washington, she led school-based music programming and developed partnerships with organizations including the John F. Kennedy Center and Washington National Opera.

A respected leader in both Atlanta’s civic landscape and the broader arts education field, Moody has been featured by Chorus America and the National Association for Music Education, and has spoken at conferences, universities, and community forums on arts education, youth development and nonprofit leadership.

Moody earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Howard University and is an alumna of the Sistema Fellows Program, a collaboration between New England Conservatory and TED focused on nonprofit leadership and music education for social change. She was also selected for the Regional Leadership Institute’s 2016 class.

Moody lives in Atlanta with her husband and two children.