Continue the Conversation IG Live:
Authentic & Inclusive Storytelling
In partnership with Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls
May 26, 2022 - 10am PDT
Instagram Live
Join us for an Instagram Live conversation between Dr. Yalda T. Uhls and Stephanie Allain (Homegrown Pictures) about Authentic & Inclusive Storytelling, a continuation of our panel from the Scholars & Storytellers Summit 2021.
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About the Continue the Conversation Series:
In partnership with Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, this Instagram Live series — Continue the Conversation: AIR Summit Learnings into Action — will lead up to the Scholars & Storytellers Summit 2022. Each episode will be hosted by Dr. Yalda T. Uhls and feature a storyteller guest. Over the course of the episode Dr. Uhls and the featured storyteller guest will deep dive into one Scholars & Storytellers Summit 2021 learning, brainstorm solutions, and leave the audience with tangible tips for creating authentically inclusive content throughout media.
Dr. Yalda T. Uhls
Yalda T. Uhls, a former senior exec at MGM and Sony, left the movie world to study child development, earning a Ph.D. in Psychology at UCLA. Uhls founded The Center for Scholars & Storytellers, an organization dedicated to bridging the work of child development researchers and youth content creators. Uhls is also an assistant adjunct professor at UCLA where she does research on how media affect the social behavior of tweens and teens and teaches a class on Digital Media and Human Development. She is an advisor for YouTube Kids and Family, The Bill and Melinda Gates Equitable Future project, Common Sense Media and the Jacobs Foundations Learning and Science Exchange and the author of the parenting book Media Moms & Digital Dads: A Fact not Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age. Research conducted by Dr. Uhls has been featured in Time Magazine, the NY Times, USA Today, NPR and many others, and published in academic journals such as Developmental Psychology and Computers in Human Behavior.
Stephanie Allain
Stephanie Allain’s Homegrown Pictures is a film and television production company dedicated to creating content by and about women and people of color with authentic stories, depictions and representation. Allain, who made history in 2020 when she became the first Black woman to produce the Academy Awards (for which she was Emmy-nominated), has produced Hustle & Flow, Something New, Peeples, Beyond The Lights, Dear White People, French Dirty, Burning Sands, Juanita and Really Love. Her films have been nominated for numerous awards with wins from Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Film Independent Spirit Awards, NAACP and others. In television she executive produced four seasons of Justin Simien’s Netflix series, Dear White People, and is currently in production on her first documentary Untitled Billy Preston. Her first book, I’M IN CHARGE! was acquired in an auction by Candlewick Press. The picture book, slated to be published in Spring 2024, models for children how they can take charge of their bodies, voices and choices.