Actor, producer, and activist Alysia Reiner joins us to revisit her film Equity, discuss the stories that surround women & money and get candid about her relationship to wealth. We learn more about Alysia’s outlook on investing in ideas and people that drive social and environmental change, and explore why making art and making money are often at ideological odds.
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Speaker Bio: Alysia Reiner is best known as "FIG" on all 7 seasons of Orange Is the New Black, for which she won a SAG AWARD. You can also catch her as Sunny on all 4 seasons of Peabody Award-winning Better Things on F/X x HULU (she just wrapped season 5), and Kiki Rains on HBO's The Deuce. Most recently, she wrapped filming opposite Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear in an upcoming horror comedy series, Shining Vale, for STARZ, premiering March 6th 2022, and starring in Stampede Ventures' feature film, Going Places.
She both starred in and produced the Sundance Film Festival feature film hit, Equity, and Tribeca Film Festival favorite, Egg, which is 100% fresh on ROTTEN TOMATOES. A few other filmed adventures include getting naked in an Emmy Award winning episode of Broad City, going head to head against Annalise on How To Get Away with Murder, and an upcoming secret project in the Marvel Universe…
She loves working as a change maker for women and is an advocate for women's rights and climate change initiatives. She is on the board and an ambassador for Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, and started the eco-fashion initiative, Livari.
As a champion of all things eco-friendly, she and her husband used their home as a way to share information about building green. Their brownstone eco-renovation in Harlem was featured on television's "World's Greenest Homes" and "Renovation Nation," and in various magazines like Dwell, Gotham, Origin and The Nest; and they allowed the environmentally friendly construction process to be chronicled on websites such as Dwell.com and Kohler.com.
Alysia has been invited to speak and keynote at The White House, The United Nations, Google, Cannes Lion, Women's Media Summit, Collision, and countless film festivals and events about breaking barriers for women in all fields, specifically the entertainment industry.
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