As Executive Vice President, Candace Montgomery spearheads AtlanticLive, the experiential division of The Atlantic. In her role she leads the organization’s event strategy, operations, execution and strategic development of all event programming as well as the team.

She collaborates with Atlantic editorial and stakeholders organization-wide to grow, innovate, and drive audiences to the AtlanticLIVE event portfolio anchored by its main tentpole The Atlantic Festival. Under her leadership AtlanticLive garnered the Best in Events from the 2022 AdWeek Hotlist. Montgomery was previously a VP at Essence Communications, where she ran the day to day growth, revenue, and operations of their experiential division.

While at Essence she was instrumental in creating most of Essence’s events portfolio and co-leading the Essence Festival of Culture – the nation’s largest culture gathering.

Prior to her VP role, she held various titles at Essence including Executive Director of Experiential where she oversaw Essence’s live experiential strategy and signature programs.

In this time she also led and participated in programs from Time Inc. Style & Entertainment group portfolio which included InStyle, People, Entertainment Weekly, and Essence.

She sits on the boards of The Brooklyn Combine, Community Roots Charter School and HireBlack.

Candace is a graduate of Hampton University and Harvard Business Schools’ BEMS program, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. and resides in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and children.