EXCLUSIVE: Marya Bangee has been hired as Disney Studios Content’s VP of Multicultural Audience Engagement
Bangee will be working as a creative thought partner with the different studios under the Disney Studios umbrella on telling culturally representative stories. Her team is responsible for furthering representation across the Studios through content advisement; market strategies; talent acquisition and retainment; and Disney’s Launchpad, which is an incubator for diverse emerging filmmakers that just announced its second season.
Bangee replaces Julie Ann Crommett who left the role in February to pursue a career in public service.Previously, Bangee was the Executive Director of Harness, an organization started by America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, and Ryan Piers Williams to center the stories of underrepresented communities in Hollywood. Through her work at Harness, she worked with networks, studios, and culture shapers to promote new narratives within popular culture.
She also ran her own company, SILA Consulting, which advises on film and television projects. SILA consulted on both Disney’s live-action $1.05 billion grossing featureBangee started her journey as a community organizer in the Muslim-American community, including leading a national advocacy campaign for the protection of free speech on college campuses.
She was selected for the prestigious Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs, where she worked on a national senate campaign, staffed California’s Speaker of the Assembly, and helped develop part of the ten-year strategic plan for the California Community Foundation. Bangee graduated as a Dean’s Merit Scholar from the University of Southern California with her Masters in Public Administration in 2015, specializing in nonprofit management and public policy.
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