CAA announced today that they will host their third annual CAA Amplify June 24 in Ojai, Calif
host Hasan Minhaj, filmmaker Young Jean Lee, actor-director CJ Jones, President and CEO of National Women’s Law Center and Co-Founder of the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund Fatima Goss Graves, former Senior Advisor to President Obama Valerie Jarrett, writer Matthew Lopez, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum Ali Noorani, award-winning political satirist Bassem Youssef and others.
“Social action is woven into the fabric of CAA, and has been since 1995, when the new leadership of the agency established the CAA Foundation,” said CAA’s Ruben Garcia, who helps lead the agency’s inclusion and equity initiatives. “We are thrilled to continue this collaboration with the Ford Foundation to scale our efforts in driving narrative shift for so many critical social issues.”
In addition to CAA Amplify, the agency also released the first-ever CAA Motion Picture Cast Diversity Index at the first Amplify event in June 2017. The research was to determine the correlative factors of diverse casting, diverse audiences, and box office success; and the broader implications on the business case for diversity in motion picture programming.
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