naja pham lockwood

A producer, investor, patron and collaborator of social change through film and the arts, Naja Pham Lockwood is the Founder of RYSE Media which supports stories of diverse voices. Her independent producing and philanthropic credits include TRY HARDER! which premiered at Sundance 2021, 76 DAYS, the first major documentary about COVID in its earliest days in Wuhan, Academy-nominated LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM, PBS series ASIAN AMERICANS, Toronto International Film Festival premiere of COMING HOME AGAIN, GOOK, and many more.

Naja is an investor in Impact Partner Films, which supports documentaries that enrich and ignite social change. She was part of Silicon Valley’s campaign to fund and support CRAZY RICH ASIANS that have blazed a pathway for greater Asian-American representation. As a refugee,she continues to advocate for immigrants from her undergraduate years to her current work with the Governor's Workforce Services and Catholic Community Services in Utah. She is the Founder and CEO of NAJALOCKWOOD to support female artisans of Southeast Asia. Throughout Naja’s life, there has always been a commitment to social justice and making sure the voices of the under-represented, the minority and the oppressed are heard.

Born in Vietnam, Naja immigrated to Massachusetts during the Fall of Saigon. She graduated with a BA from Boston University. She then returned to Vietnam under the sponsorship of Georgetown University, from 1991 to 1993, as one of the first Vietnamese Americans to study at Hanoi University after the war. After returning from Vietnam, Naja earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and worked in investment banking and media in New York, Singapore and London. She was the first Vietnamese-American to be appointed by Mayor Willie Brown and Mayor Gavin Newsom to be Arts Commissioner of San Francisco.

geralyn dreyfous

Geralyn White Dreyfous is an Academy Award winning producer with a wide, distinguished background in the arts. Geralyn's independent executive producing and producing credits include the Academy Award winning BORN INTO BROTHELS (2004); Academy Award nominated and Peabody Award winning THE INVISIBLE WAR (2012), Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning THE SQUARE (2013), and Emmy Award winning 16 SHOTS (2019) as well as multiple festival winners and nominees such as MISS REPRESENTATION (2011), MEET THE PATELS (2014), ALIVE INSIDE (2014), THE HUNTING GROUND (2015), BENDING THE ARC (2017), THE JUDGE (2017), STEP (2017), BE NATURAL (2018), WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? (2018), ALWAYS IN SEASON (2019), THE GREAT HACK (2019), US KIDS (2020), and THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS (2020). Geralyn stands as Founder and Board Chair of Utah Film Center, Co-Founder of Impact Partners, and a founding member of Gamechanger Films. She has been recognized by Variety and the International Documentary Association for her significant contribution to documentary filmmaking.

yun-fang juan

Yun-Fang Juan is an entrepreneur, software engineer and investor. She was one of the first 150 employees of Facebook and a founding engineer of Facebook Ads where she led the early development of ad delivery infrastructure, targeting and relevance. She helped Facebook scale their technical infrastructure to support ad revenue growth from scratch to billions of dollars. She left Facebook in 2011 and has been focusing on early stage tech startups. She started and sold a startup and invested in 50+ of them including unicorns like Matterport, Iterable, Volta Industries and Reddit. She is currently a general partner at Brighter Capital which invests in early stage companies that are building a brighter future today.

She graduated with a BS in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and a MS in operations research from UC Berkeley and authored 10+ patents in various internet technologies. She is married with two daughters and lives in the SF Bay Area.

tracy chou

Tracy Chou is an entrepreneur and software engineer, known for her work advocating for diversity and inclusion in tech.

She is currently the founder and CEO of Block Party, which aims to fight online harassment with a consumer app to filter and manage toxicity on social media. As featured in NPR and Consumer Reports, Block Party has been described by users as "phenomenal", a "proper mental-health saving tool", and the "solution to block out the trolls distracting from the important work you're doing".

Tracy co-founded and serves as an advisor to the non-profits Project Include, which works with tech startups on diversity and inclusion; and #MovingForward, which works with venture capital firms to establish a fair and equitable fundraising environment. In 2013, her Medium article “Where are the numbers?” helped jumpstart the practice of tech companies disclosing their data on diversity.

She has worked as a software engineer and tech lead at Pinterest, a software engineer at Quora, and a technical consultant for the U.S. Digital Service in the executive branch of the federal government during the Obama administration. She has also been an investment scout and advisor to a number of Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

Outside of tech, Tracy is on the board of the digital art non-profit Rhizome, and was a co-founder of the political organizing and training group Arena. Tracy has been named Forbes Tech 30 under 30, MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators under 35, and Fast Company Most Creative People in Business, and been profiled in Vogue, ELLE, and other media outlets. She graduated from Stanford with an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, where she was a Terman Scholar, Mayfield Fellow, and elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.

jean tsien

Jean Tsien has been working in documentary films for over 35 years as an editor, producer, and consultant. Her notable editing credits include the 2001 Academy Award nominee, SCOTTSBORO: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, three Peabody Award-winning films, and the 2020 Primetime Emmy winner for Best Documentary THE APOLLO. In 2021 she received two Peabody Awards for executive producing the landmark five-part PBS series ASIAN AMERICANS, and as a producer for 76 DAYS, which was shortlisted for the Academy Award. Tsien received the Art of Editing Mentorship Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2020 DOC NYC.