Award-winning singer/songwriter Tricia Walker spent 25+ years in the music industry in Nashville before returning to her native Mississippi to develop the Delta Music Institute entertainment industry studies program at her alma mater, Delta State University. She retired as Director Emeritus in 2019 and now, as Music Ambassador for Cleveland, she is focusing her creative energies on developing and promoting the Deep Roots music project through a partnership between the City of Cleveland and her company, Big Front Porch Productions.