Brian Walker is a versatile change agent with over a decade of experience working at the intersection of culture, digital media, social enterprise, and social justice. For over eight years, Brian was the Chief Operating Officer of The Creative Mind Group, a film and television professional development organization for students and early career professionals operating at global film festivals and film markets including Cannes, Sundance, and TIFF. In 2013 Brian joined Participant Media, where he directed social impact and digital strategy for the TEACH and He Named Me Malala campaigns focused on education, inclusion, and access. After his tenure at Participant Media, Brian served as the first Culture and Entertainment Advocacy Director at Color of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. In this role, Brian led the development of the Hollywood Culture Project, an initiative to change the rules in Hollywood, ensuring accurate, diverse, empathetic, and human portrayals of Black people on television and throughout the entertainment and media landscape. Most recently, Brian served as a Stakeholder Engagement Leader with the Enterprise Diversity & Inclusion group at The Walt Disney Company. In his role, he advised senior corporate leaders and business unit leaders from across Disney’s family of brands on their cultural and social justice competency development and on strategic external relations with a specific focus on multicultural stakeholders and communities. Brian currently serves on the board of Made In Her Image, an organization dedicated to the advancement of young women, girls, and non-binary youth of color within film, media, and technology. Brian is a graduate of Howard University School of Business where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Management, and from Howard University School of Law where he focused his studies on civil rights, intellectual property, and social enterprise. He is based on the West Coast.

Juliette Richey is the COO at Picture Motion and oversees services across the agency. As an operational leader with strong production and client management experience she drives efficient processes, and workflows; building and managing teams that have a proven history of positively impacting marketing, advocacy, and distribution. Prior to joining Picture Motion, Juliette held positions across advertising, commercial production, and independent film organizations for over a decade. Juliette is a descendant of the Coahuiltecans of the Rio Grande Valley, and a proud Latina. Early in her career, Juliette held positions at the Independent Feature Project working directly on IFP’s Film Market and Gotham Awards. She also worked in the screenings division at the Tribeca Film Festival and the grants and services department at the Creative Capital Foundation. In 2007 she was the associate producer of Esther Robinson’s award-winning feature documentary film: A Walk into the Sea: Danny William’s and the Warhol Factory. Juliette has worked in the advertising sector as Head of Production for Movement Strategy, working with clients like Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and Warner Bros. Previously she worked for Head of Content for VICE Media, Carrot Creative, and Big Fuel Communications. She was a key member at these agencies working hand in hand with their management teams and across departments to build in-house production capabilities, facilities and teams. At those agencies, she worked on a large array of global brands including Target, Jaguar, Clinique, Under Armour, Diageo, and Unilever. Her work has won multiple digital advertising awards including a Webby for Adult Swim, a Clio for Netflix, and a Shorty award for Wilson Sporting Goods. Juliette is a graduate of the Pratt Institute, receiving a BFA in writing for performance, publication, and media. She is based in New York.

Asif is a fervent believer in the power of media to educate people and change minds. He has spent his career focused on the intersection of media, technology, and social impact, with a special focus on gender equality, education, LGBTQ+ rights, and global diversity. He has worked for several top non-profits and tech-focused organizations and also served as an adjunct professor at the St. Johns University Graduate School of Communication from 2018-21. Asif started his career in social impact at the United Nations Foundation managing global programs and creating long-term corporate partnerships. In addition, he has held high-level positions managing programs, partnerships, and guiding strategy at top non-profits like DoSomething.org, Games for Change, Room to Read, Earth Day Network & Action Against Hunger. Prior to joining the non-profit sector, Asif worked in corporate finance and investment management at The Jordan Company and AllianceBernstein in New York. Asif was one of 50 top professionals in the field of emerging technologies selected for the Schusterman Foundation’s REALITY initiative in 2018 and is an active member of the global REALITY community. He was also selected for the Princeton Emerging Leaders Program in 2019. He is involved in several charitable causes and nonprofits largely focusing on youth, and education, including Conrad Challenge and Live Your Dream, and also serves on the board of Thinking Huts. Asif has a Bachelor’s in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Master’s in International Relations & Development from the University of Warwick in England. He is fluent in English, Spanish, Urdu & Turkish, and has lived, studied, and worked in the US, the UK, Spain, Turkey, Argentina, Mexico, & Pakistan.

After earning both her M.A. & B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ, Sheryl started her career in production working on The Martha Stewart Show in New York. Over the next couple of years, she continued to work in daytime television with the likes of Emeril Lagasse, Tim Gunn, & T.J. Holmes, and ultimately decided to relocate to Los Angeles to delve into scripted television. Sheryl’s tenure in Los Angeles included time as Project Coordinator for Emmy, Grammy, and Tony award-winning Director, Stan Lathan, on BET’s Real Husbands of Hollywood, starring Kevin Hart; and TV Land’s The Soul Man, starring Cedric The Entertainer and Niecy Nash. She also had the pleasure of working as the Director’s Coordinator for Dave Chappelle’s Grammy award-winning Netflix comedy specials, Deep in the Heart of Texas and The Age of Spin. Since relocating back to the northeast, Sheryl has served as Production Manager, Producer, & Director on a variety of media projects throughout the region, including time as Production Manager for Tweed Video, Co-Producer for the feature-length documentary, What Is A Black Man?, and as Producer/Production Manager for the Yahoo Allyship Pledge with Kindred and GOOD WORX. Sheryl is a proud wife and mother of two, and appreciates being able to drive social impact through creative mediums.

Eden was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and moved to New Jersey when he was about three years old. Now living in Hoboken, Eden is a lifelong passionate film lover and is specifically passionate about maximizing audiences for foreign and American independent films. Whether it produces narratives that catalyze social impact or simply teaches a certain truth indirectly through artful characterization, independent filmmaking has been an essential art form in Eden’s life for the last decade. He sculpted his college education at Rutgers (B.A. in Communications, Marketing & Cinema Studies) to pursue a career amplifying international films that reflect voices rarely seen on the big screen. Over the last year and a half working at Picture Motion, Eden has worked on impact campaigns for films such as I Am Greta, The Report, City So Real, Rebuilding Paradise, My Beautiful Stutter and more. He has a blog, Cinema4Culture, where he aims to amplify unique independent films that reflect underrepresented voices and stories across film and television. Eden also enjoys screenwriting and swimming — he was a lifeguard for seven years! In 2013, he planted corals in Key West with other students in order to restore Florida’s reefs, as part of his passion for environmental activism. Eden is based in NJ.

Macarena was born in Lima, Peru and moved to New Jersey at the age of seven. She studied communication and journalism at Seton Hall University and is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Her experience includes event planning and grassroots campaigns. She’s passionate about open and collaborative work environments that inspire. Macarena joined Picture Motion to work with a team that puts social impact at the forefront of their work. Some of the issues that she focuses on are refugee and immigrant rights, housing justice, and food inequality. She’s an avid traveler and loves learning about other cultures during her trips. In her free time, you can find her on a hike, streaming her favorite podcasts, or lounging with her cats, Frank and Jazmine.