EP. 44: In Conversation with EFFIE BROWN presented by Female Voices Rock

We are back with another Female Voices Rock In Conversation presentation, this time with none other than Effie T. Brown! Host, Amy DePaola sat down with Effie during the Facebook LIVE! Virtual Filmmaking Summit hosted by Female Voices Rock!

Effie T. Brown is an award winning film, television, and digital producer known for her highly acclaimed, multi-platform repertoire as well as championing inclusion and diversity in Hollywood, both behind and in front of the camera.

Brown has produced several critically acclaimed films and award-winning projects including Real Women Have Curves (directed by Patricia Cardosa) Dear White People (2015 Independent Spirit Awards Best First Screenplay), HBO’s Project Greenlight (Executive Produced by Matt Damon & Ben Affleck), among several others. Brown also served as an executive producer on Lee Daniels’ STAR on FOX and Disney Channel’s Zombies. Prior to Gamechanger, Brown founded Duly Noted Inc., a company dedicated to ground-breaking narratives that use genre to challenge and advance our culture in a disruptive way. Brown’s dream is to change the world through film and TV – celebrating our differences while bringing us all closer together.

She is the CEO of Gamechanger Films, the first equity fund dedicated to financing feature films directed by women in order to address gender disparity in the film industry.

ALSO in this week's episode: Women Crushing It:

Kyara and Valeria Torres-Olivares are the co-founders of Code Equal, a non-profit with the mission to get underrepresented minorities in STEM, such as women and women of color, exposure to computer science, innovation, and entrepreneurship. 

 

Code Equal provides free computer science classes, workshops, hackathons, mentors, and the tools self-identifying girls and underrepresented minorities need to enter CS fields with the confidence and knowledge to succeed.

 

Valeria Torres-Olivares is currently a rising Junior at Princeton University, studying Public Policy, International Relations, and Computer Science. She started her coding journey in High School and developed a passion for it and for empowering women to go into STEM through Kode With Klossy and Code Equal. Last summer she interned for Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman and this summer she will be interning at Microsoft, she hopes in the future to go into tech policy. 

 

Kyara Torres-Olivares  is currently a rising Junior at Princeton High School. She started coding when she attended Kode With Klossy a couple summers ago and fell in love with it. She also loves to combine all of her passions like singing, sports, and doing volunteer work in her community.