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Jennifer Siebel Newsom is a filmmaker, actress, and advocate
for women, girls, and their families.
Newsom is the writer, director, and producer of the 2011
Sundance documentary film
Miss Representation, which explores how the media’s
misrepresentations of women have led to the under-representation
of women in positions of power and influence. Miss
Representation made its national broadcast debut on
OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network on October 20th, 2011.
Coinciding with the distribution of her film, Newsom launched
MissRepresentation.org, a call-to-action movement that gives
women and girls the tools to realize their full potential. She
currently serves as the Founder and Chief Executive Officer.
Newsom is also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of
Girls Club
Entertainment, LLC, a film production company established to
develop and produce independent films with strong social,
political, and cultural significance, focused primarily on
empowering women. Newsom is an Executive Producer of the 2012
Sundance documentary The
Invisible War and is currently in pre-production on her next
documentary film.
As an actress, Newsom appeared in numerous films and television
shows including In the Valley of Elah, Something’s Gotta Give,
Rent, Life, Mad Men, The Nanny Express, Trauma, and Numb3rs.
Prior, Newsom worked on assignments in Africa, Latin America,
and Europe for Conservation International, a global
environmental organization, where her primary focus was
providing micro-enterprise opportunities to women.
Newsom is a nationally recognized speaker. She has spoken
at corporations, universities, non-profits, and conferences
including
TEDxWomen, Google, Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, Fortune’s
Most Powerful Women Summit, Stanford University, Georgetown
University, the Professional BusinessWomen of California, YWCA
Salt Lake City, California Commission on the Status of Women,
GirlVentures, and Women’s Foundation of California.
Newsom currently serves as a board director of
KQED; a commissioner on the
Girl Scouts Healthy MEdia: Commission for Positive Images of
Women and Girls; a member of the Make Mine a Million $
Business National Steering Committee; an advisory board member
of Emerge America;
and an honorary board member of the
International Museum of
Women.
In 2011, Newsom was named a “Power Woman” by New York Moves
Magazine and has also been featured in O Magazine, NPR’s All
Things Considered, ABC’s Top Line, The Huffington Post, Forbes,
The Daily Beast, Good Day LA, The Chicago Tribune, Fox News,
Vogue, and SELF.
Newsom graduated with honors both from Stanford University and
Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Newsom also speaks
Spanish.
Newsom resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband,
California Lieutenant Governor
Gavin Newsom, and
their two young children.
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