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.

Aliya believes in a future where we all have the resources and support we need to live full and joyful lives. She is an experienced organizer, communicator, and strategist with expertise in fostering online communities, leading digital campaigns and actions, and creating compelling narratives to spark social and political change. Aliya has spent nearly a decade working within academic and nonprofit organizations to advance gender, racial, and economic justice, as well as build political and electoral power. Prior to Picture Motion, she worked with a number of nonprofit organizations including the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, TakeAction Minnesota, and most recently Supermajority, where she supported the strategy and engagement of a digital community of 3+ million people. She is most proud of her work to help women of color get elected into office – whether by driving a communications strategy or showing up to knock doors. A skilled communicator, Aliya has been published in Rewire News, Ms. Magazine, and Huffington Post. Earlier in her career, she worked in crisis advocacy and counseling, experiences she credits as deeply informing her work as an activist and storyteller. Aliya is the daughter of an immigrant and a proud Midwesterner. She earned a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Indiana State University and completed graduate degrees at Chatham University and the University of Oregon. She is a Certified Nonprofit Professional and previously served on the board of the Association for Women in Psychology. She lives in Minneapolis with her cat Moonpie.

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.

Glynnis has been passionate about independent and documentary film since a young age, inspired by her weekly visits to the Sunrise Theatre while growing up in North Carolina. A firm believer that film is a powerful and critical tool for creating social change, Glynnis has spent over a decade helping to amplify films and their impact through community screenings, alternative distribution, and festival programming. Prior to joining Picture Motion, Glynnis spent 8 years as an Outreach and Junior Producer at Sweden-based documentary production company WG Film, where her work with the film Bikes vs Cars helped bring the documentary to over 3000 screenings in nearly 80 countries. She has also served as Director of Programming for both Cinema Planeta Environmental Film Festival in Mexico and Patagonia Eco Film Festival in Argentina. Glynnis is an alumni of Doc Society’s Impact Producers Lab and Good Pitch, European Women’s Audiovisual Network’s Multiple Revenue Stream Training for Future Films, and Young Nordic Producer’s Club, and she has presented her work with impact at CPH:DOX, Ffilm Cymru Wales, and Tempo Film Festival. Glynnis earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Media Production and Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After spending 8 years living in Sweden and Denmark, she now resides in Mexico City.

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.

Originally from Baltimore, MD, Eryn Black (he/him/his) spent a decade in operations and project management for several nonprofits in New York City. He is passionate about respectful, inclusive, and diverse workspaces and loves creating and nuancing policies and processes that bring out the best in an organization and its teams. Prior to receiving a degree in theology, Eryn attended film school at the University of Maryland, and film has been a huge part of his life for as long as he can remember. For several years, he also hosted and produced a podcast about Jewish culture and identity, which gave him the opportunity to interview writers, performers, comedians, and directors and have incredible conversations about how art so often allows people to express, and interact with, feelings and ideas they might otherwise struggle to put into words. He loves writing and performing comedy, music, and poetry. He’s always happy to talk about horror movies, hip hop, punk rock, and comic books. Eryn lives in Manhattan with his wife, their two sons, and two dogs.

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.