How Tom Donahue and Ilan Arboleda are Helping To Make Film And TV More Representative Of The US Population

Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine
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9 min readMay 27, 2019

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… In THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING we trace the history of discriminatory practices in Entertainment and go into detail on how the industry has failed as a whole for more than 50 years to adequately enforce TITLE VII — the legal protections from the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that specifically defines the employment protections for women and people of color.

Second — demand parity from the agencies, unions, studios and networks.

And Third — make change with your wallet. Go see films directed by, written by, and starring women and people of color. Invest in them succeeding and more of those stories will be told.

As a part of my series about leaders helping to make Film and TV more representative of the US population, I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Ilan Arboleda and Tom Donahue. Tom Donahue’s latest film as

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Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine

A “Positive” Influencer, Founder & Editor of Authority Magazine, CEO of Thought Leader Incubator