Episode 219: Spotlight on the Producer with Sasheen Artis Part 2

Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week on the podcast we have another fellow Stanford Alumni – #chocolatecardinal, with a mini masterclass as a great follow-up to my conversation with creative director, Francis Brown. Sasheen Artis, born a New Yorker in Harlem, currently based in Los Angeles, California, is bi-coastal in her lifespan to date, spending her entire adult life on the West Coast. She started her career in the entertainment industry as a temp and is now a two-time Emmy winning producer and the Founder & CEO of Plenty of Pie, a curriculum-based talent incubator and media production accelerator offering leadership development, practical producers skills training, mentorship, and access to production & distribution resources to emerging and mid-career creatives of color. Sasheen has worked with such newsmakers and celebrities as President Barack Obama, Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, actor/director Robert Duvall, singer/songwriter Annie Lennox and director Jonathan Demme. Her latest film, Birthing Justice, addressing Black maternal health outcomes, debuted at the Congressional Black Caucus, screened for 200 countries at the United Nations and is used as a continuing education course by the American Medical Association. It currently airs on PBS. She is also dedicated to service as a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Producers Guild of America, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. and serves on the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation Digital Media Entertainment Advisory Council. Be sure to spread the word via the links below about her upcoming inaugural Plenty of Pie Talent Incubator Cohort - Deadline is April 30th. Where to find Sasheen? www.plentyofpie.net On LinkedIn On Instagram On Facebook What’s Sasheen watching? Maigret Blood of the Vine Nordic Thrillers Other topics of interest: About CUNY - aka City College in Harlem Hankcock Park, Los Angeles Silver Lake, Los Angeles Los Feliz, Los Angeles Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles Ted Milner’s Executive Temps About Blockbuster What are lenticulars? About The Division The Tavis Smiley Show About Aerospace Engineer, Hal Walker Prentice Penny Sasheen’s Emmy-winning episodes of Lost L.A. - Three Views of Manzanar and Discovering the Universe The Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act About fellow Stanford Alum and basketball standout Darren Allaway Color Congress