Gail serves as Billboard’s executive director of R&B/hip-hop, covering the R&B and rap genres as well as music industry business news across all genres and sectors for the magazine and Billboard.com. She has moderated panels and keynote Q&As for industry organizations and companies such as ASCAP, BMI, the Recording Academy, the Grammy Museum, the Revolt Music Conference, Music Biz, Warner Records, Pollstar and MIDEM Digital 2020. She has also represented Billboard in stories and broadcast interviews for media outlets including Anderson Cooper 360, CNN’s Don Lemon Tonight, NBC’s TODAY, CBS This Morning, CBS News Radio, CBS Evening News, MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, BET, A&E, Associated Press, Cheddar News, USA Today, The New York Times’ Popcast, the 2021 Showtime documentary 'Bitchin: The Sound and Fury of Rick James' and the 2024 A&E documentary 'James Brown: Say It Loud.' A graduate of Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Gail also serves on the advisory boards for the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville and the Living Legends Foundation.
