Latasha Gillespie is the Global Head of DEIA for Amazon MGM Studios, Prime Video and Freevee. She is responsible for the development and management of all content related and customer facing DEIA work for the organization. Under her leadership, Amazon Studios created the entertainment industry’s first Inclusion Playbook, and Latasha also created the Howard Entertainment Program, a first of its kind partnership between a major studio and an HBCU. Latasha is a celebrated speaker, host, and moderator who has spoken around the world at CES, Essence Festival, Cannes, AFRIFF, the Recording Academy, the Television Academy, Rio2C, AdColor, Sundance and more. She has been featured on Variety’s 2021 Women’s Impact Report and 2022 Inclusion Impact Report, was recently honored as a 2022 Multichannel News Wonder Woman and received the Black Women Film Network 2023 Beacon Award.