{"id":73649,"date":"2025-06-23T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=73649"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:18:12","slug":"academy-appoints-three-new-governors-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=73649","title":{"rendered":"ACADEMY APPOINTS THREE NEW GOVERNORS-AT-LARGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOS ANGELES, CA<\/strong> \u2013<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The Academy Board of Governors has elected three new governors-at-large:\u00a0<b>Haifaa al-Mansour<\/b>\u00a0(Directors Branch),\u00a0<b>Effie T. Brown<\/b>\u00a0(Producers Branch) and\u00a0<b>Annie Chang<\/b>\u00a0(Production and Technology Branch, Science and Technology Council Chair). They will each serve a three-year term beginning upon the first meeting of the 2025-2026 fiscal year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to welcome Haifaa, Effie and Annie to the Academy\u2019s Board of Governors. \u00a0Their wealth of experiences, perspectives and dedication will be vital to our ongoing global and industry outreach efforts,\u201d said Academy President Janet Yang. \u00a0\u201cI also thank my fellow at-large governors DeVon Franklin and Rodrigo Garc\u00eda for their incredible leadership over the past six years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As with the governors representing each of the Academy\u2019s 19 branches, governors-at-large may serve up to two three-year terms (consecutive or non-consecutive), followed by a two-year hiatus, after which eligibility renews for up to two additional three-year terms, for a lifetime maximum of 12 years. \u00a0The Board of Governors sets the Academy\u2019s strategic vision, preserves the organization\u2019s financial health and assures the fulfillment of its mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As a result of this election and the previously announced branch-elected 2025-2026 governors, the 55-member Board comprises 55% women and 31% from underrepresented communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For the previously announced 2025-2026 Academy Board of Governors,<\/span>\u00a0<a title=\"click here\" href=\"https:\/\/click.mail.oscars.org\/?qs=0a105f77a195ff7f47756d42fbd7df915a3dba619d440ee9c14cda35434e87af59c559283a6c4522aa1b500ec3224520a010f10da57004f8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click.mail.oscars.org\/?qs%3D0a105f77a195ff7f47756d42fbd7df915a3dba619d440ee9c14cda35434e87af59c559283a6c4522aa1b500ec3224520a010f10da57004f8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1750788357071000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1myzgZopDsiHiDttwI9DEn\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 The Academy&#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":[13,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-ca-local","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73649","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=73649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73650,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73649\/revisions\/73650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}