Ja Nae

Ja-Naé Duane, president & founder Ja-Naé Duane is an entrepreneur devoted to singing, acting, networking, and guerilla and buzz marketing. She is a professional opera singer that began her career at 13. Since then, she has performed in world-famous attractions including The White House, Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Lincoln Jazz Center, and the Boston Esplande.To tie her love for performing with her natural entrepreneurial instincts, Ja-Naé offers a free newsletter and blog to other singers and artists at http://www.ja-nae.com/. It covers tips and promotional tactics on how to get noticed and to generate publicity.
Ja-Naé founded Wild Women Entrepreneurs in 2005, from a desire to have an organization that helps success-driven women to share talents, skills, and resources with each other, a community that shows women that they can be themselves and be successful businesswomen as well. Ja-Naé created her own major at Northeastern University and New England Conservatory, with a collaboration between the two institutions. Her degree was Opera. She did her graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University and received a MA in a collaboration program with the Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh. She also received an AD from Boston University’s Opera Institute. She is currently studying at the Metropolitan Opera. She has won the NATS competition, is a recipient of “Who’s Who Among American College Students,” Carnegie Mellon’s Award for “Graduate Vocal Excellence” the “GUSH Award,” and has twice received the key to her hometown, West Haven, CT.