{"id":51029,"date":"2022-08-02T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51029"},"modified":"2022-08-03T11:59:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T18:59:33","slug":"janet-yang-elected-academy-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51029","title":{"rendered":"JANET YANG ELECTED ACADEMY PRESIDENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ACADEMY BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2022-2023 OFFICERS ELECTED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Producer\u00a0<strong>Janet Yang<\/strong>\u00a0was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization\u2019s Board of Governors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJanet is a tremendously dedicated and strategic leader who has an incredible record of service at the Academy.\u00a0 She has been instrumental in launching and elevating several Academy initiatives on membership recruitment, governance, and equity, diversity, and inclusion,\u201d noted Academy CEO Bill Kramer.\u00a0 \u201cI am thrilled that she is taking on the esteemed role of Academy President and look forward to working closely with her on our shared vision to serve our membership, celebrate the collaborative arts and sciences of motion pictures, and inspire the next generation of filmmakers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Teri E. Dorman<\/strong>, Vice President (chair, Membership Committee)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<strong>Donna Gigliotti<\/strong>, Vice President\/Secretary (chair, Governance Committee)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<strong>Lynette Howell Taylor<\/strong>, Vice President (chair, Awards Committee)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<strong>Larry Karaszewski<\/strong>, Vice President (chair, History and Preservation Committee)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<strong>David Linde<\/strong>, Vice President\/Treasurer (chair, Finance Committee)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<strong>Isis Mussenden<\/strong>, Vice President (chair, Museum Committee)<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<strong>Kim Taylor-Coleman<\/strong>, Vice President (chair, Equity and Inclusion Committee)<br \/>\n\u2022<strong>\u00a0Wynn P. Thomas<\/strong>, Vice President (chair, Education and Outreach Committee)<\/p>\n<p>Yang is beginning her first term as president and her second term as a Governor-at-Large, a position for which she was nominated by the sitting Academy President and elected by the Board of Governors.\u00a0 Gigliotti, Karaszewski, Linde, Mussenden and Thomas were re-elected as officers.\u00a0 It will be the first officer stint for Dorman, Howell Taylor and Taylor-Coleman.<br \/>\nYang\u2019s extensive film producing credits include \u201cThe Joy Luck Club,\u201d \u201cThe People vs. Larry Flynt,\u201d \u201cZero Effect,\u201d \u201cHigh Crimes,\u201d \u201cDark Matter,\u201d \u201cShanghai Calling\u201d and the Oscar\u00ae-nominated animated feature \u201cOver the Moon.\u201d\u00a0 She won an Emmy\u00ae for the HBO film \u201cIndictment: The McMartin Trial.\u201d\u00a0 A member of the Academy\u2019s Producers Branch since 2002, Yang most recently served on the Board as vice president and chair of the Membership Committee and prior to that, the Membership and Governance Committee.\u00a0 She is also co-chair of the Academy\u2019s Asian Affinity Group.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Governors sets the Academy\u2019s strategic vision, preserves the organization\u2019s financial health and assures the fulfillment of its mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACADEMY BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2022-2023 OFFICERS&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51030,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51029\/revisions\/51030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}