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Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program Announces Inaugural HBCU in LA Summit (EXCLUSIVE)
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Oscar-winning filmmaker Travon Free (“Two Distant Strangers”) is among the panelists for the inaugural “HBCU in LA – Hollywood Summit,” presented by the Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program (EICOP).
The free, four-day virtual program, developed by the EICOP (the non-profit educational arts workforce development program), will bring together talent and executives from across the entertainment industry and students and faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The summit is intended to highlight the impact and relevance of HBCUs and their relationship to Hollywood and to create pipelines for employment as the industry advances its efforts toward wide-spread diversity and inclusion.
How ICM’s Lorrie Bartlett’s Overcame Adversity and Fat-Shaming Early in Her Career
BE Conference 2021: “For me it was really devastating because I thought, ‘Wow, I’m actually doing pretty great work, ” Bartlett tells TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman
Umberto Gonzalez | May 11, 2021 @ 12:15 PM
Early on in her career before becoming one of the most successful agents in Hollywood, ICM Partners Head of Talent and Board Member Lorrie Bartlett was fat-shamed by an unnamed individual at the William Morris Agency, she says.
“Several years ago, I was told by a senior executive that I would never succeed because I was too fat,” Bartlett told TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman during the BE Conference Dealmakers in Action panel, presented by ICM. “That I should lose weight if I ever wanted to move ahead. He didn’t say I was too Black. He decided that I was too fat.”
LOS ANGELES â In late 2017, ICM Partners CEO Chris Silbermann announced an audacious pledge: achieve gender parity in leadership positions and on the board by 2020.
It was part of a larger industry-wide effort called 50/50 by 2020, championed by prominent ICM client Shonda Rhimes and others in the wake of Hollywood s reckoning over sexual harassment. Companies work best when . there is a balance of men and women in positions of leadership and positions all across the company, Silbermann said during a 2018 policy summit. We can t be a company of a bunch of guys who look like me.
Last year, ICM, which represents such stars as Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, Regina King, Michael Keaton and Wanda Sykes â declared victory, telling Variety that at least half the agents promoted to partner status since 2017 were female. In March, the agency said that 15 of its 23 departments are run or co-run by women.