Founder of the largest—and one of the only—diversity and inclusion initiatives focused exclusively on women of color in the film and television industry, Cheryl L. Bedford sees no use in maintaining the status quo.
With a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA from The American Film Institute, and twenty years of experience as a producer, line producer and production manager, Bedford has the industry savvy, determination and tremendous power of will to see and enact the changes the rest of Hollywood needs to embrace.
Bedford’s organization, Women of Color Unite, began as a relatively small networking event; invitations enjoined, “Women of Color…UNITE,” and Bedford funded the event herself—because of her deep belief that women of color needed a place to meet and support each other.
