Meet the
Lear Center team

LEADERSHIP

HOLLYWOOD, HEALTH & SOCIETY

Senior Content Developer
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Marty Kaplan

Director
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Johanna Blakley

Managing Director
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Kate Folb

Director
Hollywood, Health & Society
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Erica Rosenthal

Director of Research
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NORMAN LEAR CENTER

Mark Leong

Business Manager
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MEDIA IMPACT PROJECT

Veronica Jauriqui

Research & Communications
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Uju Okechukwu

Budget/Business Analyst
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Adam Amel Rogers

Research Operations
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Cristian Hurtado

Content Developer
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Francesca Marie Smith

Senior Fellow
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Armine Kourouyan

Senior Project Manager
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Roberta Cruger

Senior Outreach Specialist
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Russell DeVita

Writer/Editor/Communications
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NamQuyên (Q) Võ Lê Sugiyama

Brandon Hall

Program Administrator
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Soraya Giaccardi

Senior Researcher
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Erica Watson-Currie

Research Associate
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Eun Jung (Kristin) Jung

Project Administrator
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Shawn Van Valkenburgh

Project Associate
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Ksenia Korobkova

Project Associate
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Dana Weinstein

Project Specialist
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Gracie Fletcher

Program Specialist
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