Tilane Jones is the President of ARRAY, the multi-platform arts and social impact collective dedicated to narrative change founded by filmmaker Ava DuVernay in 2011. Jones leads ARRAY Alliance, the non-profit group, as well as programming and production hub ARRAY Creative Campus. She continues to oversee ARRAY Releasing, the company’s film distribution arm, where she is responsible for the acquisition, booking and marketing of more than 30 independent feature films. Jones was recently honored with the Slamdance Founders Award, the film festival’s highest accolade. She is the fifth recipient and first woman and person of color to receive the award which is bestowed on an individual that supports the filmmaker community of Slamdance throughout their career.

Russlynn Ali has been a leading advocate for educational equity for more than two decades. As Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Education during President Obama’s first term, Ali spearheaded the federal government’s renewed engagement with equity issues in schools across the nation. Previously, Ali was a founding Executive Director of Education Trust- West; and Vice President of the Education Trust. In 2014, Ali became Managing Director of Education at Emerson Collective, and CEO and co-founder—with Laurene Powell Jobs—of XQ Institute. XQ is committed to transforming public high schools to close achievement and opportunity gaps, and to making schools the center of community revitalization. For Ali, education is America’s central civil rights issue today. In 2015, XQ launched with an open call to the nation to design the high school of the future. Within a few months, XQ had rallied tens of thousands of people from all 50 states around the idea of innovative, student-centered high schools that prepare all young people for tomorrow’s world. XQ helps communities rethink their high schools by supporting locally-driven redesign and by open-sourcing everything XQ does and everything the XQ schools are learning to inspire redesign across the country. Because of her commitment to research-driven innovation, Ali points to the latest neuroscience on adolescent learning, which proves that high school is not too late for struggling students to fulfill their promise as learners. She also knows that the high schools of the future must be grounded in the best of what’s known about effective, equitable learning environments. Ali began her career as a classroom teacher. She’s now an attorney and advocate who believes that what’s needed today is a powerful movement to bring American education into the 21st century.

Katie McGrath is Co-CEO of Bad Robot Productions. She oversees the company’s corporate culture, philanthropy, communications and ancillary businesses. Prior to joining Bad Robot, Katie was a founding Partner at First Tuesday Media, a political media firm based in Los Angeles. Earlier, she served as Director of Communications at MTV Networks and Vice President at the strategic communications consulting firm Robinson Lerer Sawyer Miller. Katie began her professional career in Washington, D.C. as a legislative assistant to Senator Edward M. Kennedy and currently serves on the boards of Pro Publica and Time’s Up. Katie and her husband, JJ Abrams, and three children live in Los Angeles.

Julia Lourie

Philanthropist and Advancement Officer, Bard Prison Initiative Member, Audit Committee

Julia Lourie is a dedicated advocate and funder in the fields of criminal justice reform, women’s health, and the arts. Lourie currently works at the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), a program of Bard College that opens access to high quality college opportunity to people incarcerated in New York State prisons and supports returning citizens with Reentry and Continuing Education programs. She is proud to bring her skills of event production, fundraising, and community outreach to use on behalf of currently and formerly incarcerated individuals. Lourie is the co-founder of EPIC (End the Prison Industrial Complex), a network of activists, funders, and directly impacted people who work together to share knowledge and resources aimed at halting the most negative effects of mass incarceration in America. Prior to her time at BPI, Lourie spent several years working in contemporary art, helping to produce exhibitions with Creative Time, Hauser + Wirth, Van Gogh Museum, and more. She specialized in providing technical and conceptual support to artists, most frequently on large- scale public projects with social justice implications. In her philanthropy, Lourie is a member of many liberal donor organizing networks, including Solidaire, Way to Win, Women Moving Millions, Women Donors Network, Resource Generation, and Maverick Collective. Lourie’s Maverick Collective project is implemented by global health NGO P.S.I. with support from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and aims to reduce instances of morbidity and mortality from cervical cancer in Trinidad & Tobago. She is an active supporter of Drug Policy Alliance, Witness to Innocence, Human Rights Watch, and more. Lourie has previously served on the Board of Directors of The Florence Academy of Art, and currently serves on the Board of contemporary dance company Hivewild. She is a lifelong equestrian and 200 RYT certified yoga teacher. Lourie holds a B.S. with Honors from NYU Steinhardt in Media, Culture, and Communication. She resides in Brooklyn with her cat Kitty Princess.

Peter Roth most recently served as Chairman, Warner Bros. Television Group. In this role, he had creative responsibility for all of the Studio’s unrivaled television production activities, including production of scripted and unscripted/alternative series for on-demand/streaming platforms, premium/pay and basic cable channels, and the five broadcast networks. He was elevated to this position in February 2020 after serving as President and Chief Content Officer, Warner Bros. Television Group, since May 2013. As Chairman, Roth oversaw Warner Bros. Television, the Studio’s flagship television production unit for live-action scripted programming, as well as Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, which produces unscripted and alternative programming through its three production units: Warner Horizon Unscripted Television, Telepictures, and Shed Media.

As of February 2020, the scripted and unscripted divisions are producing more than 120 total series for streaming and cable partners, as well as the broadcast networks and local stations. Roth’s acumen for developing and producing successful programming has brought Warner Bros. the distinction of being the most prolific studio in Hollywood during his tenure. He joined the company in March 1999 as President, Warner Bros. Television, assuming oversight of one of the industry’s leading television production companies. Under Roth’s leadership, Warner Bros. has been the #1 supplier of programming to the U.S. broadcast networks for 14 of his 20 years at the Studio. He expanded his duties in April 2006 to include heading up the then-newly created Warner Horizon Television, a separate production entity which specialized in the creation of scripted series for the cable and on-demand/ streaming marketplace (Warner Horizon Scripted Television), and primetime reality series for both network and cable (Warner Horizon Unscripted Television), and which quickly became an industry leader. As of August 2020, the operations of Warner Horizon Scripted Television were merged into Warner Bros. Television to create a single scripted programming production unit. In recognition of his career accomplishments, Roth was previously honored with the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award, presented by NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives) at its annual Conference & Exhibition. He was also named Television Showman of the Year at the ICG 45th Annual Publicists Awards. Roth currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Peabody Awards, the Los Angeles Board of Governors of The Paley Center for Media, and the Hall of Fame Selection Committee for the Television Academy. Roth came to Warner Bros. Television after having served as President, FOX Entertainment, since September 1996. While there, he was responsible for the development and programming of the Emmy® Award–winning “Ally McBeal,” “That ’70s Show” and “Family Guy.” Prior to working at the network, he joined Twentieth Television Corp. in June 1992, when he was named President of Production at Twentieth Network Television (currently 20th Century Fox Television Productions). In June 1993, he was promoted to President of Twentieth Network Television and became President of 20th Century Fox Television in June 1994. While there, he was responsible for shepherding what was then the most successful pilot-selling season in the history of that studio, with 10 pilots picked up for production during the 1996–97 television season. His series productions include “The X-Files,” “Chicago Hope,” “Picket Fences,” “The Practice,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Millennium” and “King of the Hill.” Prior to joining Twentieth Television Corp., Roth was President of Stephen J. Cannell Productions, where, during a six-year tenure, he was involved with the creation and sale of such critically acclaimed series as “21 Jump Street,” “Wiseguy,” and “The Commish.” Roth spent 10 years at the ABC Television Network, where he began his television career in 1976 as Manager of Children’s Programs. He was promoted that same year to Director and was responsible for ABC’s number one–rated Saturday morning schedule. In June 1979, he was named Director of Current Primetime Programs and was promoted to Vice President, Current Primetime Series, in November 1981, overseeing such classic shows as “Happy Days,” “Laverne & Shirley,” “Moonlighting” and “Dynasty.” A native of Larchmont, New York, Roth attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated cum laude from Tufts University in 1972. He resides in Brentwood, California, with his wife, Andrea, and their two children.

Jeff Tobler is Vice President & Head of Global Media Relations for Expedia Group Brands and was previously the Chief Marketing Officer for ARRAY. Prior to ARRAY, Tobler spent a decade at Warner Bros. Worldwide Television where he was most recently Senior Vice President of Publicity, Communications and Social Media, serving as the architect of publicity and communications efforts for the Studio’s 80+ original scripted and animation programs. Before WBTV, he was a publicist at The CW Network and its predecessor, The WB, and started his career at NBC Entertainment. He currently serves on the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Public Relations Peer Group Executive Committee. Tobler is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago and can often be found hiking a mountain with his family.