For Immediate Release: Wednesday July 10, 2024

HOLLYWOOD COMMISSION EXPANDS BOARD

Cindy Holland, Alan Jenkins, and John Landgraf Join CEO & President Anita Hill and Co-Founders Kathleen Kennedy and Nina Shaw

LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 10, 2024—The Hollywood Commission, the leading organization that works collaboratively with 26 of the most influential companies, unions and guilds, academies, and talent agencies to end harassment, discrimination, bullying, and abuse in the entertainment industry, announced today the expansion of its board of directors with three new members.

The new members—SISTER’s Cindy Holland, Harvard Law School Professor Alan Jenkins, and FX’s John Landgraf—join the board immediately. The announcement was made by Anita Hill, CEO and president of the Hollywood Commission, and by co-founders and fellow board members Kathleen Kennedy and Nina Shaw.

Holland is Global CEO of SISTER, the independent global entertainment group that develops, produces and invests in visionary creators across all forms of media. Recent hit projects include series Eric (Sister/Netflix) and documentary The Greatest Night in Pop (Dorothy St. Pictures/Netflix), popular podcast White Devil (Campside Media), current #1 New York Times bestseller in Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous Democracy or Else (Zando), the acclaimed film Good Grief (Sister/Netflix) and others. Previously, she established and led original programming strategy at Netflix, including nine years as Vice President of Original Content, where she oversaw the teams behind culture-defining and award-winning titles including House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Stranger Things, The Crown, When They See Us, The Queen’s Gambit, and many more. Holland was named to the Time 100 list of most influential people in 2018, and is an active investor in entertainment and women's sports, including Angel City FC. She is also a Board Member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles.

Jenkins is a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School, where he teaches courses on Race and the Law, Communication, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence. Before joining the Law School faculty, he was President and Co-Founder of The Opportunity Agenda, a social justice communication lab. Jenkins’s prior positions have included Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented the United States government in constitutional and other litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court; Director of Human Rights at the Ford Foundation, where he managed grantmaking in the United States and eleven overseas regions; and Associate Counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he defended the rights of low-income communities facing exploitation and discrimination.

Landgraf is chairman, FX Content & FX Productions. Landgraf has oversight of all aspects of original programming for FX, a global multiplatform brand of The Walt Disney Company that develops, produces, commissions and markets original programming for the FX and FXX linear channels and Hulu in the U.S., and Disney+ internationally. Landgraf joined FX in 2004 and is currently the longest-tenured head of a TV brand in the industry. His track record of acclaimed and award-winning programs began with Rescue Me and continued with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Damages, Sons of Anarchy, American Horror Story, Fargo, American Crime Story, Atlanta, Better Things, The Bear, The Old Man, Welcome to Wrexham and Shōgun, to name a handful of the many hit and award-winning series launched under his leadership. He served on the Pitzer College Board of Trustees. Landgraf has been named chair appointee to the executive committee of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Board of Governors.

In a joint statement, Hill, Kennedy, and Shaw said, “We are grateful for the leadership, as well as the unique perspective and depth in content production and law, that Cindy, Alan, and John will be bringing to the board. As we set our agenda for the medium and long term, their brilliant minds and clear-eyed view of the state of the industry will be invaluable.”

In the past 12 months, the Hollywood Commission has achieved its greatest goals to date: completing its second industry-wide survey of entertainment industry workers; launching MyConnext, its research and reporting platform; piloting Respect on Set, a turnkey suite of services and worker protections, which the Commission is currently working to embed in a future IATSE Low Budget Agreement; expanding its core Bystander Intervention and Unconscious Bias training programs; assuming operation of the Entertainment Industry Helpline; and continuing to grow its research footprint to drive policy, programs, strategic partnerships, and communications.

ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD COMMISSION

The Hollywood Commission, led by board members Anita Hill, Chair and President, along with Kathleen Kennedy and Nina Shaw, is the leading organization that works in partnership with 26 of the most influential companies, unions and guilds, academies, and talent agencies to end harassment, discrimination, bullying, and abuse in the entertainment industry.

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