Increasing Diversity in Animation

I want to talk about increasing diversity in animation and share what I feel my role is and the topics surrounding that.

Representation

• I want to make sure that kids have the opportunity to see someone that looks like them doing the things they want to do. I can inspire kids, no matter what they look like to go into animation, but I want to make sure that little girls and minority kids get to see themselves represented.

Increasing the Diversity in the Diversity

• Sometimes, not all the time, the minorities and women in the animation industry have the same interests as the majority. I want to make the animation industry like other industries where you don't think of one type of person when you think of someone in animation. I want to reach that kid that's not a raving fan of Star Wars; that girl that has never watched anime; or that boy who doesn't want to work at a plant when he gets older.
  

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