Age

38

Location

Los Angeles

Claim to Fame

Founder of DVA Media + Marketing

Bio

The filmmaker and marketer is blazing a trail for African American women in Hollywood. At 27, she founded what is now DVA Media + Marketing, which has been involved in more than 100 television and film projects. In 2008, the UCLA graduate directed a feature film for the first time. It was the multiple award-winning This Is The Life, a documentary about Los Angeles hip-hop culture. She also directed and wrote My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women in Hip-Hop, which premiered on BET in August 2010 as the network’s first original music documentary. Follow her film projects and Twitter posts, like DVA on Facebook. and watch on YouTube.

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Interviewing all those talented women artists [for “My Mic Sounds Nice”], plus the excellent panel of experts, academics and journalists, was a rare treat.

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