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The Treatment

Christy Haubegger: Inclusion in Hollywood

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

WarnerMedia’s Christy Haubegger on not looking at inclusion as philanthropy.

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:14.3

Welcome to the Treatment, the Home Edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. My guest, she founded something

0:19.0

that's now 25 years old like this show. I guess when

0:22.0

she was 12 years old, Christy Howberger founded Latina Magazine. Since then, she's gone on to be,

0:28.2

I think the kind of person who, as they say over at her parent company, Warner Media, keeps people

0:32.9

honest. She did that at CIA, where she helped to spearhead the agency's initiative to bring in more people of color and expand the agency's inclusiveness.

0:42.8

She's now doing that as make sure I got this right, executive vice president, chief inclusion officer, and head of marking communications at WarnerMedia.

0:51.7

My guess is Christy Hoverick.

0:53.3

I'd love to talk to you, Chrissy, but we're out of time after going through all your credits.

0:56.1

So try safely.

0:58.0

Thank you.

0:59.1

No, it's so nice when your family writes your bio.

1:03.8

One of the reasons when I heard that you were doing this and got the opportunity to talk to you to bring you on is that who guards the guardians, you know, you've been somebody

1:11.6

who's been pretty outspoken about saying what needs to happen and what should happen and

1:17.4

actually implementing these things. So what was your response when you got the first contact

1:23.1

from WarnerMedia about saying, can you come over and help us? When I think about that introduction, and I realize, like, I've been working a really long time.

1:33.0

Like, I've had a number of different jobs, right?

1:35.3

I was a magazine publisher.

1:37.6

I worked as a motion picture producer.

1:40.0

I worked at a talent agency.

1:42.1

And now I'm an executive in a media, entertainment media company.

1:46.0

And I feel like I've had like a lot of different jobs, but I've had one mission and kind of one

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