Hollywood Commission Adds Cindy Holland, Alan Jenkins, John Landgraf to Board of Directors
Cindy Holland, Alan Jenkins and John Landgraf have been inducted into the Hollywood Commission’s Board of Directors. They join CEO and President Anita Hill and co-founders Kathleen Kennedy and Nina Shaw.
Holland is the Global CEO of Sister, an independent global entertainment group that “develops, produces and invests in visionary creators across all forms of media.” Previously, she established and led original programming strategy at Netflix, including nine years as vice president of original content, where she oversaw the teams behind “House of Cards,” “Orange Is the New Black,” “Stranger Things,” “The Crown,” “When They See Us,” “The Queen’s Gambit” and more.
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Jenkins is a professor of practice at Harvard Law School, where he teaches courses on race and the law, communication and Supreme Court jurisprudence. Before joining the law school faculty, he was president and co-founder of The Opportunity Agenda, a social justice communication lab; the assistant to the solicitor general at the U.S. Department of Justice; director of human rights at the Ford Foundation and associate counsel to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s legal defense and educational fund.
Landgraf is chairman of FX Content and FX Productions. He oversees all aspects of original programming for FX, a global multiplatform brand of The Walt Disney Company. His work has helped enforce the production of shows like “Rescue Me,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Damages,” “Sons of Anarchy,” “American Horror Story,” “Fargo,” “American Crime Story,” “Atlanta,” “Better Things,” “The Bear,” “The Old Man,” “Welcome to Wrexham” and “Shōgun.”
“We are grateful for the leadership, as well as the unique perspective and depth in content production and law, that Cindy, Alan and John will be bringing to the board,” Hill, Lennedy and Shaw said in a joint statement. “As we set our agenda for the medium and long term, their brilliant minds and clear-eyed view of the state of the industry will be invaluable.”
The Hollywood Commission is an organization that partners with 26 of the entertainment industry’s most influential companies, unions and guilds, academies and talent agencies to end harassment, discrimination, bullying and abuse.
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