Award-Winning Hollywood Producer
President of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences
Leader in the AAPI Community
Janet Yang is an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Hollywood producer, President of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, a keynote speaker, and a trailblazer and advocate for the AAPI community. She came to prominence through her collaboration with Steven Spielberg on Empire of the Sun, followed by partnerships with Oliver Stone and Lisa Henson. Her extensive Film and TV credits include The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Shanghai Calling and High Crimes.
She currently leads Janet Yang Productions, which is developing projects with diverse themes. Her most recent credit is the Academy Award-nominated animated feature, Over the Moon.
Amplifying AAPI Voices
Committed to fostering global understanding, Yang is a co-founder of Gold House, the non-profit collective of influential Asian cultural leaders; an advisory board member of Asia Society Southern California where she also chairs its highly regarded US-Asia Entertainment Summit and AWE (Asian Women Empowered) Initiative; and a long-standing member of the Committee of 100, an organization of the most prominent Chinese-Americans.
Keynote Speaking and Consulting
Yang has been featured in The New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Variety, South China Morning Post, Harper’s Bazaar, as well as on numerous television and radio shows across the US and Asia such as NPR and CCTV.
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