Averie grew up in Costa Mesa, CA, is graduate of Chapman University, and is proudly hapa Kānaka Maoli. Starting her career as an NBC Page, Averie is now a successful TV Producer and Development Executive with her own company, having learned from industry leaders like Amy Pascal, Sara Colleton, and Nicky Weinstock. She has worked on shows for Disney+, Netflix, NBC, Peacock, 20th, Sony, Tristar, FX, CBS, Amazon, and HBO Max. She strongly believes in pulling up the next generation of creatives and executives, and she has done industry mentorships for Women in Film, Reel Champions, Film2Future, Outfest, PEAK and HRTS to fulfill that. She has been on the board of Pasifika Entertainment Advancement Komiti since its creation, where she’s been a mentor, speaker, and panelist. In 2024, she designed and lead the the PEAK Producing and Executive Program with a grant from TAAF. In addition to PEAK, she’s an active volunteer and leader in her community, serving organizations such as Off the Page, Inevitable Foundation, Arthritis Foundation, Outfest, Best Friends Animal Society, WUFAW, Adopt & Shop, LA Mission, Community Fridges, and Food Forward. In her free time, she practices archery and teaches people how to repair purses on TikTok.

Aisea Laungaue’s career has spanned the intersection of marketing and entertainment, most recently as Creative Executive at CAA in Los Angeles, where for 3 years he worked to develop cultural strategies for a diverse range of corporate and talent clients, ranging from boy bands and film directors to diet soda and whiskey brands. In his time there, he brokered marketing partnerships for a variety of different content creators, including J.J. Abrams/Bad Robot, Chris Hardwick/Nerdist, Simon Cowell/Syco and Tim & Eric/Sarah Silverman/Michael Cera/JASH. Before that, he was Head of Planning at Anomaly New York where he led global marketing and innovation strategy for clients including Diageo, Pepsi and P&G. Aisea started his career in his native Australia at Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney. Having worked in New York, Singapore and Sao Paulo, Aisea now proudly calls Los Angeles home.

Dana Ledoux Miller is a Samoan writer/producer. She was the co-showrunner of Netflix's THAI CAVE RESCUE Limited Series produced by SKG and Jon M. Chu. Previously, she was an Executive Producer on LAST RESORT for Seven Bucks Productions and Feigco Entertainment as part of the Break the Room Initiative and set up at Quibi. Prior to that, she's written for AMC’s KEVIN CAN F*CK HIMSELF and LODGE 49, as well as ABC’s DESIGNATED SURVIVOR, Netflix’s NARCOS and HBO’s THE NEWSROOM. She is a graduate of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and was born and raised in Long Beach, CA.

Named one of Variety’s “Top 10 Producers to Watch,” Naomi Scott has produced award-winning content for film and television. She is a partner at Great Scott Productions, the LA-based company she founded with her partner actor Adam Scott. Great Scott has a first look deal with Apple TV+. Scott was an Executive Producer on Fox’s Ghosted. She produced the feature OTHER PEOPLE starring Molly Shannon and Jesse Plemons, which earned four Independent Spirit Award nominations, the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film and was chosen as the opening night film at the Sundance Film Festival. Scott has produced two other features, which also premiered at Sundance: THE OVERNIGHT starring Adam Scott, Jason Schwartzman and Taylor Shilling and FUN MOM DINNER starring Toni Collette and Bridget Everett. Scott started her producing career on the late-night series Jimmy Kimmel Live. Scott is a proud Italian-American/Pacific Islander with family roots in Lucca, Italy and Agat, Guam. She is also a gun violence prevention advocate, serving as a founding member of the Everytown Creative Council. She also serves as Co-Chair for the Center for Reproductive Rights Los Angeles Benefit.

As the VP of Film Development & Production at Stampede Ventures, Grant Torre packages and produces feature films. Current projects include the upcoming K-POPS!, Anderson .Paak’s directorial debut, the Netflix animated musical Prince of Port au Prince starring Wyclef Jean, and the upcoming film Space Cadet starring Emma Roberts. Grant recently produced Max Chernov’s Going Places starring Ethan Cutkosky and Spence Moore on behalf of Stampede Ventures. Grant is Chamorro and Filipino and grew up in a mixed-race household in Torrance, CA before studying at Swarthmore College where he majored in Film and Media Studies with a minor in Psychology. Grant is also a 2022 CAPE Leaders Fellow, which focuses on developing Asian and Pacific Islander voices in the entertainment industry by equipping the next generation of creative execs with the skills and professional network to break into VP ranks. Grant started his career in the CAA mailroom before moving into the Motion Picture Literary department.

Kerry Warkia (Papua New Guinean/Scottish) grew up in Papua New Guinea with her two older sisters and parents before moving to Aotearoa where she is now a prominent producer at the forefront of some of the nation’s most innovative content across film and television. In 2016, Kerry produced the ground-breaking feature film, WARU, made up of eight vignettes in collaboration with nine wāhine (female) Māori film-makers, making its international debut at TIFF. Her second feature film, VAI, was set in seven Pacific Island countries and made in collaboration with 9 Pacific va'ine (female) filmmakers, premiering at the Berlinale Film Festival 2019. Kerry was acknowledged as “Woman to Watch” at the 2014 NZ WIFT Awards, she was awarded the 2017 SPADA Independent Producer of the Year Award, and she is the honoree for the 2022 HIFF Trailblazer Award - a testament to Kerry’s determination to tell a diverse range of stories that ignite her passion. Kerry was also at the helm of 2020’s LEGEND OF BARON TO’A, 2022’s KĀINGA and the AMC series GOOD GRIEF. Keep an eye out for the feature film, RED, written/directed by 8 female Australian Aboriginal writer/directors for ScreenWest as well as MAKAWALU, written/directed by 8 Native Hawaiian filmmakers. When Kerry isn’t producing, she has a passion for mentoring young female producers.