Rachel Watanabe-Batton is a producer of Disney+'s 'Sneakerella' and founder of the production company Contradiction and Struggle. As an African-Asian woman, her goal is to bring more diversity into Hollywood, and to reframe history and the conventional politics of branding and respectability.
with Mr. T, the barbershop documentary. She also has produced critically-acclaimed art installations for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as top-ten music videos and global ad campaigns.
Born in New York, Watanabe-Batton spent her formative years in the multicultural Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan. Her parents were New York City public school teachers who thought their children should be actively engaged in the world. They taught their kids to read philosophy and poetry, to love Hollywood films, and to respect the sports and film icons who broke color and gender barriers.
As a producer and storyteller, Watanabe-Batton blends her Japanese, American and Nigerian backgrounds to bridge cultural gaps and advocate for others. “As a Blasian woman from New York City, born before interracial marriage was legal in America and raised by activist educators, I have, by my very existence, been at the forefront of cultural and socio-political change,” she said in aexclusive interview.
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