Kamala Avila-Salmon is the first-ever Head of Inclusive Content for the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, a role aimed at developing and implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies to reflect a globally diverse audience in the studio’s film slate. After pursuing her BA and MBA from Harvard, she has worked across music, movies, TV, tech, and streaming entertainment, leading marketing campaigns for Janelle Monae, The Voice, and Red Table Talk, to name a few. Her current role positions her to pursue the north star that brought her to LA: diversifying the powerful images and messages disseminated by Hollywood. She is an outspoken voice on issues of race, racism, and anti-Blackness, penning several Medium articles on DEI in the workplace and in the entertainment industry specifically as well as hosting and creating the podcast, “From Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist Journey”, geared at helping people go from “woke” feelings to clear, effective action to advance racial justice.
Kamala Avila-Salmon
Head of Inclusive Content, Motion Picture Group, Lionsgate