I met annette_summersett last year at Wup It Up 2023 (in Chicago). As we treaded East on Lawrence in search of good coffee before the sessions on Day 2 (only half calf because who wants to be in a co-write with some severely over caffeinated humans?!), we bonded over production talk, songwriter life, moving around in search of a home base and the challenges that come with being a woman in a super male dominated field. (See the stats below). I was elated to catch up with Annette this year and chop it up about some of her developments since our last year’s hang. *Every year since 2018, USC Annenberg’s Inclusion Initiative report — dubbed “Inclusion in the Recording Studio?” — has broken down the gender and race statistics from the credits on Billboard’s Hot 100 songs chart, typically highlighting just how male-dominated the songwriting and production fields truly are. This year was no exception: nearly 65 percent of the 164 listed recording artists on the Hot 100 tracks are men, along...