Raeshem
Nijhon

Raeshem Nijhon is Co-Founder of Culture House, an Emmy, NAACP, Critics Choice, IDA, Webby, Shorty and Gotham Award nominated media company that has put over $20M in the hands of women and bipoc creators through their work.

Select projects include Netflix Top 10 docu-series, Ladies First, about women in hip hop featuring artists like Queen Latifah, Tierra Whack, Latto, and MC Lyte. The Hair Tales, a premium doc series for Onyx/Hulu about Black hair and beauty hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross and EP’d alongside Oprah Winfrey, Growing Up, a doc-narrative hybrid series for Disney+ with Brie Larson, about revisiting our teen years with a fresh eye, Black Twitter for Hulu, directed by Prentice Penny and in partnership with Conde Nast and Everybody’s Fight, a film series about reproductive justice in partnership with Karlie Kloss and Phoebe Gates.

Raeshem sits on the board for the New York Center for Communications, an organization dedicated to bringing more diversity to the media industry, serving 185+ colleges and universities annually. She serves on the Creative Council for EMILY’S List and is the recipient of the 2024 Ms. Foundation’s Women of Vision Award alongside her Culture House co-founders.

Select pro-social work includes partnerships with Planned Parenthood, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Committee to Protect Journalists. Raeshem was named one of InStyle magazine’s Badass 50, Worth magazine’s Worthy 100 and Variety’s Reality Power Players list.

Donna
Macletchie

Donna Macletchie serves as Chief Content Officer at French Tuck. She is an experienced entertainment executive and founder of multiple businesses, with a demonstrated ability to create content in an ever-shifting environment. She’s been on the buying side as the EVP of Chip and Joanna Gaines’s Magnolia Network, overseeing all content at the network’s launch, including the feature documentary Children of 9/11, directed by Oscar-winning documentarian Ellen Goosenberg Kent, and also award-winning documentary series The Lost Kitchen.

Reshma
Saujani

Reshma Saujani is a leading activist, the founder of Girls Who Code, the founder and CEO of Moms First, and the host of My So-Called Midlife with Lemonada Media. She has spent more than a decade building movements to fight for women and girls’ economic empowerment, working to close the gender gap in the tech sector, and most recently fighting for the structural changes moms need and deserve including affordable child care, paid leave, and equal pay.

She is a New York Times Bestselling author of several books including PAY UP: The Future of Women and Work (And Why It’s Different Than You Think), Brave, Not Perfect, and the Girls Who Code book series. As a leading voice on women’s empowerment, her 2023 Smith College Commencement speech on imposter syndrome has more than 18 million views, and her influential TED talk, “Teach girls bravery, not perfection,” has more than 54 million views globally.

Reshma began her career as an attorney and Democratic organizer. In 2010, she surged onto the political scene as the first Indian American woman to run for U.S. Congress. Reshma lives in New York City with her husband, Nihal; their sons, Shaan and Sai; and their dog Steve.

Tan
France

Following his star-making turn in current Netflix hit reboot Queer Eye, Tan France founded French Tuck Media in 2023 in order to create content that fosters community and transcends boundaries with insightful storytelling that informs and inspires. Tan is also the author of NYTimes best-selling memoir Naturally Tan, and also produced and starred in the feature documentary Beauty and the Bleach, and also co–hosts, along with Gigi Hadid, the global fashion design competition series for Netflix Next in Fashion.

Carri
Twigg

Carri Twigg is Co-founder of Culture House Media, a Black, Brown, women owned, premium film and TV production services and immersive experiences company that specializes in storytelling about the cultural questions that shape society, politics, and identity. Before her pivot to entertainment, Carri spent 15 years working at every level of American politics and government. Carri went on to serve in the Obama White House as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Public Engagement for then Vice President Biden. In 2022, Carri was appointed by President Biden to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts and the Kennedy Center board, where she will advise the administration and the Kennedy Center on diversifying national programming and arts funding. Carri has been a featured speaker at SXSW, TEDx Women, Boston College, Goldman Sachs, The Aspen Institute and many more.

Nicole
Galovski

Nicole Galovski is an Emmy nominated writer, Co-Founder and Executive Producer at Culture House. She is one of the creators and the showrunner of Growing Up, a hybrid docuseries for Disney+ with Brie Larson, she is also the executive producer of The Hair Tales for Hulu, Ladies First for Netflix and Black Twitter for Hulu. She produced 2022 Tribeca premiere Of Medicine and Miracles about Dr. Carl June’s ground-breaking cure for childhood leukemia, and Netflix’s What Would Sophia Loren Do which was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Scripted feature film credits include NYTimes critic pick All Creatures Here Below (Samuel Goldwyn) and Tribeca premiere Poor Boy (Indican Pictures). Nicole’s work has received support from the UN Foundation, Impact Partners, Artemis Rising Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Utah Film Center.

Ashley
York

Ashley York has worked on Academy Award®-winning teams and on projects that have won top honors and premiered at the Sundance, Los Angeles, Berlin, and SXSW film festivals. Her film, Hillbilly, won a London Foreign Press Award; six Best Documentary awards, including the Grand Jury prize for Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Film Festival; and a Michael Moore Award for Best Documentary at the Traverse City Film Festival. She directed and produced the Netflix Original Documentary Tig, about cancer survivor and comedian Tig Notaro, which was an Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Hot Docs, IDFA, the Istanbul Documentary Festival, and Outfest. Ashley lives in Los Angeles where she runs Hazeltime, a mom and pop boutique production shop named after her five-year-old daughter, Hazel. Ashley is an associate adjunct professor in the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Lauren
Cynamon

Lauren Cynamon is a former editor turned Emmy-nominated executive producer and Head of Development at Culture House, where she oversees documentary films and series for major streamers and studios. She has spent nearly twenty years in nonfiction storytelling and was part of the team that helped define VICE’s early documentary style, which went on to reach millions of viewers worldwide. While at VICE, Cynamon helped the company earn its first Webby Award, executive produced a James Beard Award winning short film profiling a sushi chef, edited the environmental feature Garbage Island, which aired at the San Sebastián Film Festival, and executive produced the series Abandoned, which won Best Photography at the Canadian Screen Awards. She also co-founded Munchies, VICE’s food site, which helped launch the careers of many emerging chefs shaping food culture today. Her work has appeared on Netflix, Hulu, Disney, and YouTube Originals, with additional projects currently in production for Prime Video. Cynamon is a working mother of two living in Connecticut.

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