Jeanell English is leaving the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences lower than a yr after being named to the newly put up of EVP Affect & Inclusion. She had been with the group since becoming a member of as VP Affect & Operations in 2020.
Phrase of English’s exit comes hours after information broke that Warner Bros. Discovery North America DEI government Karen Horne is leaving her put up amid that firm’s wide-ranging layoffs.
English was upped to EVP in July 2022. She was charged with main the Academy’s initiatives designed to handle underrepresentation throughout the trade and to find, empower and advance the work of rising and numerous movie artists, per AMPAS.
English has labored for greater than a decade within the areas of world range and inclusion technique, worker engagement, company social accountability, cross-cultural coaching and expertise administration. Earlier than coming to AMPAS, she was a director at Discovery Inc. (now Warner Bros. Discovery).
Her exit comes after the Academy has promoted Kendra Carter to SVP Affect and International Expertise Improvement in Could.
