our team 2022
Advisors
Screenwriter, Director, Producer
Artist & Activist
Founder of Black Indigenous Liberation Movement
President of TruJuLo Productions
Climate Program Director
Producer, Co-Chair of PGA Green
Founder and Executive Director of Creative Migration
Chief Programming Officer at SXSW
Impact Strategist & Author of Girls Gone Green
Founder of Good Energy
Director of Editorial at Shondaland
Founder of the Climate Mental Health Network
Founder/CEO at Earth Angel EOB is a pioneer of the sustainable filmmaking movement, working with major motion pictures and television series to cut carbon and costs since 2011. After her sustainability leadership on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 contributed to it being acclaimed as “the most eco-friendly blockbuster in Sony Pictures’ history,” she founded Earth Angel in 2013 to expand her expertise and impact.
Founder of One Up Action
Director/Producer, Co-chair of PGA Green
President of Center for Cultural Power
Director of Jackson Wild
Curiosity Expert & Climate Activist
Producer & Climate Activist
PRODUCING TEAM
Steering Committee
Hollywood Climate Summit Co-Founders
ALLISON BEGALMAN
HEATHER FIPPS
SAMUEL RUBIN
ALI WEINSTEIN
2022 Executive Producers
ALLISON BEGALMAN
KAT EVASCO
HEATHER FIPPS
SAMUEL RUBIN
CHERYL SLEAN
ALI WEINSTEIN
Production
EMMA LACHANCE
Associate Producer
LAUREL TAMAYO
Virtual Programming Coordinator
KAT BARNETTE
Director of Physical Production
CAROLINE STELLA
Virtual Content Producer
HEATHER FIPPS
Director of Creative Content & Production
EMILY LYON
Creative Content Coordinator
SARAFINA LUDLOW
Comedy Writer
JANAE MARABLE
Comedy Writer
SARAH NEWMAN
Workshop Producer, Climate Mental Health Network
ARIEL ZUCKER
Technical Director
WILL FREUND
Technical Assistant Coordinator
Pitchfest
LEIGH MEDEIROS
Director of Pitchfest
Pitchfest Producer
ALI WEINSTEIN
Director of Pitchfest
Marketing & Comms
JINNY RYANN
Director of Marketing and Communications
Digital Social Media Manager
JACKSON XIA
Website Producer
Impact & Partnerships
Operations
ALLISON BEGALMAN
Director of Sponsorships
SHAAN DASANI
Director of Engagement & Partnerships
JOCELYN GEE
Impact Measurement Lead
SAMUEL RUBIN
Director of Impact & Strategy
Director of Sustainable Production
SHAHAD HAMWI
Executive Assistant
GUNJAN NANDA
Summit Coordinator & Line Producer
TEHYA JENNETT
Volunteer Coordinator
Volunteers
BUSHRA ALJABER
MAXFIELD BIGGS
JASMINE BOLICH
KALEIGH BROWN
EMMA DAX
ARIEL DELA CRUZ
MANAR EL KEBIR
BAY GAMMANS
BEE GUZMAN-ELLIOTT
HUDA HOSSON
WILLIAM KALLMEYER
IMOGEN LEE
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A social impact agency rooted in the power of grassroots community-organizing and storytelling. We help organizations and individuals use their platforms to ignite systemic change. Young Entertainment Activists is our sister nonprofit.
REHANA LODGE
ALEX LOOMIS
VALERIA LOPEZ
HALEY MARGOLIN
JULIAN MOWATT
AUDRA O'BRIEN
ADITI PRADHAN
COURTNEY SIMPSON
JACKSON XIA
TABITHA YONG
KAREN ZHANG
ERIN ZIMMERMAN
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Young Entertainment Activists (YEA!) is an activist hub and creative production studio in the entertainment industry, organizing young media professionals and equipping them to transform our industry, lend their talent to critical social change, and ultimately change the stories that shape our culture.