Our Mission
BRIC Foundation has one main goal: to increase representation in Entertainment, Gaming, Media and Tech. By strategically engaging with leaders across these industries, along with Government and Education Partners, BRIC strives to Break, Reinvent, Impact and Change the foundations of these businesses and create inclusive opportunities for women and underrepresented people to be successful.
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Our History
BRIC’s story began with Alison Mann, who after spending 17 years working creative talent recruitment in the entertainment industry, was inspired to help drive change around how entertainment companies approach and discuss hiring around diversity. Rather than focusing on the current hiring pool, Mann believes that if we don’t start engaging individuals earlier in their lives, the evolutionary equality the entertainment industry desperately needs will never exist.
With this desire for change, Mann reached out to similarly impassioned producers Jill Gilbert and Nicole Hendrix to join forces and inspire others to re-examine how current talent pipelines and infrastructure in the entertainment industry function. BRIC, which stands for Break, Reinvent, Impact, and Change, was born in July 2018 with the goal of creating inclusive opportunities for women and underrepresented people within leadership roles in the entertainment industry.
As BRIC continued to have their yearly Talent + Innovation Summit, which gathers creative, activist, educator, industry, government, and non-profit partners to solve questions around inclusion for underrepresented humans, it became clear that BRIC needed to focus on creating new pathways of access. During the 2021 BRIC Summit, an Industry Advisory of 60 Animation, Visual Effects, and Gaming professionals came together with the California Department of Education to create a new vision of public education that turns out industry-ready employees.
This advisory group worked to re-write the Arts, Media, Entertainment (AME) Animation, Visual Effects, and Gaming (AVG) Career Technical Education (CTE) curriculum standards and registered the first Youth Apprenticeship Program for Animation, Visual Effects, and Gaming pathways. BRIC’s Apprenticeship now serves as an alternative career pathway to costly college/university programs and enables youth the opportunity to obtain the skills needed to succeed while earning a livable wage. Learn more about our registered career pathways and how to get involved here.
BRIC Board Members
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Advisory Council Members
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BRIC Partners
We are so thankful for our partners and the dedication they have shown in helping us bring more inclusion and belonging into the entertainment industry.
Members of
BRIC Creative Academy Coaches
BRIC’s Creative Academy partners students with industry experts and allows them to get hands-on experience and guidance in a fun, creative, work-focused environment. We are always looking for more coaches, so please contact us at contact@bricfoundation.org if you’re interested in joining us.
