Stacey Abrams is a five-time New York Times bestselling author, entrepreneur, and political leader. A prolific author that navigates a multitude of genres, she has written two political thrillers, two illustrated children’s books, three non-fiction books that provide readers a guide to leadership, entrepreneurship, and protecting the right to vote based on her own experiences, and eight romantic suspense novels. She is the award-winning producer of the documentary "All In: The Fight for Democracy," which made the 2021 Academy Award shortlist for best documentary. Abrams also received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for her role in “Black-ish”. A tax attorney by training, Abrams served eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as Minority Leader, and became the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia in 2018 and 2022. Committed to the pursuit of equity, she works to break barriers for young people, people of color and the marginalized through her work in the public, nonprofit and corporate sectors. Abrams received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and Yale Law School.
Adriana Martínez Barrón is currently Head of TV and Film for Stacey Abrams’ Sage Works Productions. Previously she was Vice President of Drama Series Development at CBS Entertainment. Prior to that, she served as Vice President of Film at Eva Longoria’s UnbeliEVAble Entertainment where she Executive Produced the film “Let’s Get Merried” starring Mishel Prada, Xosha Roquemore and Tahj Mowry for ViacomCBS and VH1.
Before that, she was simultaneously Manager, Latin American Original Series and Manager, Latin America Content Acquisitions at Netflix where she oversaw a large slate of films and TV series in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Spain spanning over 25 titles launched to date, including “Madre Sólo Hay Dos”, “Luis Miguel: The Series”, “Nicky Jam: El Ganador”, and “Como Caído del Cielo”. Prior to joining Netflix, she worked as Creative Executive at Mexican Superstar Eugenio Derbez's production company 3Pas Studios where she oversaw the feature "Cómo es Él" for Pantelion and the first season of "LOL: Laugh Out Loud Mexico" for Amazon.
She was a CBS diversity writing program mentor and an LFI Inclusion Fellowship mentor, as well as an WIF Advanced Executive Fellow in 2023. She has been involved with organizations and initiatives such as TV Academy, HRTS, JHRTS, WIF, Colour Entertainment, LATB, Latinx List, LALIFF, NWFLA, Hola México, WOCUnite throughout the years, in her quest to advance other women, Latinx and people of color.
A graduate of the Peter Stark Producing Program MFA at USC, Martínez Barrón got her start in the U.S. as a Development Assistant for Sofia Vergara's Latin World Entertainment and was assistant to a Co-Producer for ABC's "Killer Women". She began her career in her native Monterrey, Mexico working her way up on set.
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