168 | WGA Inclusion & Equity Committee Members Discuss Representation and Authenticity In our Writing

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Today we're honored to welcome NINE members from the WGA's inclusion and equity committees in a thoughtful conversation about the state of the industry and representation on and off the page. Today's guests are: Asian American Writers Committee: Kristina Woo Career Longevity Committee: Catherine Clinch Committee of Black Writers: Hilliard Guess Committee of Women Writers: Franki Butler Disabled Writers Committee: Shea Mirzai Latinx Writers Committee: Christina Piña LGBTQ+ Writers Committee: Spiro Skentzos Middle Eastern Writers Committee: Cameron Ali Fay Native American & Indigenous Writers Committee: Anthony Florez RESOURCES: TTIE Fact Sheets: https://www.writeinclusion.org/factsheets Storyline Partners Fact Sheets: https://www.storylinepartners.com/resources/ Women Of Color Unite: https://wocunite.org/

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0:00.0	Hey TSL fan, producer Jeff here and I'm excited to let you know that we're looking to staff up our winter slash spring intern class.
0:07.0	It's a great opportunity to kind of see a peak behind the curtain of what podcast production looks like.
0:11.0	You can join for our show recordings, work directly with
0:13.7	Megan Lorian and kind of help shape our voice on social media. So it's a really fun
0:18.6	experience. It really gives you an inside look at what podcast production looks like from a nuts and bolts
0:23.6	perspective. So if you're a credit eligible university student and you are interested in
0:28.4	joining us, go ahead and email the screenwriting life at gmail.com with your resume and please include intern in the subject line and we'll get back to you.
0:37.0	We're looking to get started in mid-January so start sending us to those resumes
0:41.2	ASAP. Enjoy the show.
0:43.7	Welcome back to the screenwriting life.
0:45.2	I'm Lorry and McKenna.
0:46.3	And for today's episode, we are having a conversation
0:48.8	with members of the WGA's inclusion and equity committees.
0:52.8	We have nine different committees represented today.
0:55.5	So I'm going to ask you all to introduce yourselves
0:57.5	before we get started, so you can tell us your name,
1:00.4	pronouns if you like, and which committee you represent represent a little bit about your community and what your favorite writing snack is right now
1:07.4	So I'll go first
1:09.1	So Meg and I started the screen writing life because we had a need, right, to feel not alone and to be reminded and encouraged to keep writing.
1:18.0	And then this amazing community came out of it, which we are so lucky to be a part of.
1:22.0	And my pronouns are she her and my favorite
1:26.1	writing snack right now is not chips it is for better or worse dried cranberries.
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