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A new Makers conference is less than a month away with a slew of notable names confirmed for the program.
The ninth installment of the event — produced by Makers, a Yahoo media brand and designed to foster a community focused on women’s equity in the workplace and beyond — will take place inside the Beverly Hilton on Feb. 27-29. It will feature a roster of women from the worlds of business, entertainment, tech, finance, policy and sports with the theme of “Making the Future Now.”
Confirmed for the program are Gwyneth Paltrow, Lift Our Voices co-founder Gretchen Carlson, comedian Leslie Jones, Studio One Eighty Nine Abrima Erwiah, actress and writer Riki Lindhome, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund president and CEO Alexis McGill, August co-founder Nadya Okamoto, TV host Michaela Pereira, actress Karen Pittman, Lift Our Voices co-founder Julie Roginsky, former Netflix marketing chief Bozoma Saint John,...
The ninth installment of the event — produced by Makers, a Yahoo media brand and designed to foster a community focused on women’s equity in the workplace and beyond — will take place inside the Beverly Hilton on Feb. 27-29. It will feature a roster of women from the worlds of business, entertainment, tech, finance, policy and sports with the theme of “Making the Future Now.”
Confirmed for the program are Gwyneth Paltrow, Lift Our Voices co-founder Gretchen Carlson, comedian Leslie Jones, Studio One Eighty Nine Abrima Erwiah, actress and writer Riki Lindhome, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund president and CEO Alexis McGill, August co-founder Nadya Okamoto, TV host Michaela Pereira, actress Karen Pittman, Lift Our Voices co-founder Julie Roginsky, former Netflix marketing chief Bozoma Saint John,...
- 2/1/2024
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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WME and Endeavor Content will be recognizing the one-year anniversary of #BlackoutTuesday on June 1 by teaming with Color of Change and its #ChangeHollywood initiative to pause work for a “day on,” which will consist of workshops and programming focused on achieving racial equity.
The day’s programing will feature a conversation with Michael B. Jordan, Color of Change president Rashad Robinson and Endeavor executive chairman Patrick Whitesell; and a review of McKinsey’s “Leaving $10B On the Table,” a study of Hollywood’s economic losses from Black inequity, with co-authors Sheldon Lyn, Nony Onyeador and Ammanuel Zegeye and moderated by WME client and The Sum of Us author Heather McGhee.
Additionally, there will be discussions about colorism in entertainment with The Grapevine, filmmaker and WME client Dream Hampton and Robinson talking power and responsibility in Hollywood in a panel moderated by Endeavor chief inclusion officer Alicin Williamson, and a workshop titled “Tools for Talent,...
The day’s programing will feature a conversation with Michael B. Jordan, Color of Change president Rashad Robinson and Endeavor executive chairman Patrick Whitesell; and a review of McKinsey’s “Leaving $10B On the Table,” a study of Hollywood’s economic losses from Black inequity, with co-authors Sheldon Lyn, Nony Onyeador and Ammanuel Zegeye and moderated by WME client and The Sum of Us author Heather McGhee.
Additionally, there will be discussions about colorism in entertainment with The Grapevine, filmmaker and WME client Dream Hampton and Robinson talking power and responsibility in Hollywood in a panel moderated by Endeavor chief inclusion officer Alicin Williamson, and a workshop titled “Tools for Talent,...
- 5/26/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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We’ll be honest, the year 2020 was a rough one. If you think otherwise, then we’d really like to know the number for your therapist. The year 2020 has been synonymous with the words “dumpster fire”, “trainwreck” or has been simply called “trash”. Among the unpredictable things we navigated through during the year, we dealt with a virus that will forever change the way we live as well as the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless members of the Black community that sparked a reckoning in the United States that was a long time coming — and don’t even get us started on the Election.
That said, the film and TV industry felt the impact of all this as theaters shuttered, movie releases were delayed, TV and film productions changed, film festivals went virtual, Zoom-based events and premieres became the temporary normal and streaming services ruled supreme. On top of all that,...
That said, the film and TV industry felt the impact of all this as theaters shuttered, movie releases were delayed, TV and film productions changed, film festivals went virtual, Zoom-based events and premieres became the temporary normal and streaming services ruled supreme. On top of all that,...
- 12/15/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos, Amanda N'Duka and David Janove
- Deadline Film + TV
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