Fee: $15,000 - $25,000

Topics: Celebrity

 

Travels from: CA

Ananda Lewis

Provocative.  Opinionated.  Real.  These are a few of the many monikers associated with this San Diego native, an award-winning broadcast personality whose years on-air with BET, MTV and Kingworld's “The Ananda Lewis Show” earned her recognition from her peers and the adoration of a worldwide fan base who continue to watch her star rise.  Recognized as one of our country's new generation of leaders, this Howard University graduate has long been committed to social activism and youth causes that bridge the generation gap, including race and prejudice, mental health, literacy, prevention of worldwide childhood starvation, and animal cruelty prevention.  

Highlights of her accomplishments over the years:

* 100.3 The Beat's Morning Show "John Salley Block Party with Ananda Lewis" - Co-Host

* The Insider – Correspondent

* The Young & the Restless – Herself          

* BET Top 25 Hottest Women – A Guest Host

* NEXT Fashion Show - Host

* California Black Women's Project – “Women Who Dared” Award - Honoree

* Prism Awards - Presenter

* NAACP Awards - Presenter

* Grammy Awards Pre-Show – Co-Host

* VH1 Big in 04 Countdown - Host

* Break Through Artist Awards - Host

* Celebrity Mole Yucatan (Stone Stanley Entertainment) - Participant

* National Association for the Prevention of Starvation (N.A.P.S) – five-day mission of feeding and clothing children orphaned by AIDS - Ambo, Ethiopia

* 74th Academy Awards - Co-Host of Red Carpet pre-show

* Pepsi Spokesperson

* Secretary of Defense/USO Holiday Tour 2000 - Host (Bosnia, Kosovo, Germany)

* MSNBC's Live Race Relations Forum from the historical 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL - Featured panelist

* United Nation's International Day of Ending Racial Discrimination with Mary Robinson and 200 young adults - Host

* White House Teen Suicide Prevention Forum with former Surgeon General Satcher - Host

* National Mental Health Awareness Campaign - White House launch - Featured speaker with Tipper Gore

* BBK Healthcare Spokesperson - Launch of national campaign to raise awareness of Type II Diabetes epidemic in children

* Reading is Fundamental (RIF) Spokesperson 

* PRISM Award 2002 – The Ananda Lewis Show “Clearing the Air with Christy Turlington”

* MTV Music Awards - Presenter

* NAACP Image Award 2001 – MTV  'True Life:  I Am Driving While Black"

* Teen Choice Awards – “Best TV Personality” nomination 2002

* Voted one of People Magazine's “50 Most Beautiful People” 2000

* Voted one of Cosmopolitan Magazine's “Fun Fearless Females” 2001

* Voted a “Cosmo Girl of the Year” 2001            

Magazine features include:

* Vogue

* Essence

* Self

* Cosmopolitan

* Allure

* W

* US

* Honey

* TV Guide

She has also been a frequent guest on the celebrity talk circuit with appearances on:

* Weekends at the DL – Guest

* Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher

* The View

* The Howard Stern Show (TV and radio)

* The Chris Rock Show

* The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

* Hollywood Squares

* BET Tonight with Ed Gordon

Fee: $10,000

Topics: Entertainment, Media, Celebrity, Women in Society

Industry specialties: Entertainment, Media

Travels from: CA

Julie Dash

PRODUCER - WRITER - DIRECTOR

Julie Dash was born and raised in New York City; she has toured nationally and internationally with her work, and she has received numerous awards since embarking on her film career. With the debut of "Daughters of the Dust" in January 1992, Julie Dash became the first African American woman to have a full-length general theatrical release in the United States. "O" magazine included 'Daughters" among it's 50 Greatest Chick Flicks, and in 1999, the twenty-fifth Annual Newark Black Film Festival honored Julie and her film "Daughters of the Dust" as being one of the most important cinematic achievements in Black Cinema in the 20th century.   

December 2004, The Library of Congress placed "Daughters of the Dust" in the National Film Registry; "Daughters of the Dust" joins 400 American films preserved as National Treasures.

        Ms. Dash recently directed a short film designed to screen for a very long time at The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Museum in Ohio. The HD production of, "Brothers of the Borderland is not only a feast for the eyes, viewers also feel the spray of river water, they feel pulsating wind, and experience the smell of the deeps woods in the museum's environmental theater. "Brothers of the Borderland" is total sensory experience, playing every twenty-minutes during museum hours for the next four years.

Ms. Dash also directed the NAACP Image Award winning CBS Network Television Movie, "The Rosa Parks Story" the winner of The Family Television Award, The New York Christopher Award, and Angela Bassett received an Emmy Nomination for her performance as "Rosa Parks." For the 55th Annual Directors Guild Awards, Julie Dash was nominated for her Outstanding Directorial Achievement on "The Rosa Parks Story," and she became the first African American woman nominated in the category of Primetime Movies Made for Television at The Directors Guild of America.

Her long form, dramatic narrative films include: "Love Song," an MTV original feature starring R&B singers Monica, Tyress and TLC's Chili; "Incognito," a romantic thriller staring Richard T. Jones, Vanessa Williams, Phil Morris, Ron Glass with Rodger Guenveur Smith; and the ENCORE/StarZ3 "Funny Valentines" starring Alfre Woodard, Loretta Devine and C.C.H. Pounder. She wrote and directed an episode of "Women" for ShowTime Cable Network, as well as "Sax Cantor Riff", HBO's "Subway Stories" for Producers Jonathan Demme and Rosie Perez.

Ms. Dash has a book published by The New Press, and a novel published by Dutton-Signett Books. She is currently working on a romantic trilogy for Dutton-Signett Books.

Ms. Dash earned her M.F.A. in Film & Television production at UCLA; received her B.A. in Film Production from CCNY, and she was also a Fellow at the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies, the AFI conservatory at Greystone Mansion.

When not working on her projects, Ms. Dash is a frequent lecturer at many of the leading universities across the United States.