Microsoft’s Entertainment and Digital Media President Nancy Tellem at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast on Wednesday Oct. 30, at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills
Many of entertainment’s most influential women attended TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast
TheWrap founder and CEO Sharon Waxman welcomes attendees
President of Production at Columbia Pictures Hannah Minghella and Tellem
Waxman and Tellem who said the two years after leaving CBS were “the most difficult two years and the most important two years of my life”
Waxman and Tellem
Waxman and Courage Award winners journalists Bopha Phorn of Cambodia, Edna Machirori of Zimbabwe and Najiba Ayubi of Afghanistan
Phorn speaks at the breakfast: “You believe in yourself and what you’re doing”
Ayubi speaks during the breakfast
Machirori, Zimbabwe’s first black female editor, said she was not deterred by adversity and harrassment: “You just keep going”
Attendees enjoy the discussions
Politician Wendy Greuel and Waxman
Ayubi greets breakfast attendees
Screen Actor’s Guild executive Ilyanne Modren Kichaven and actress Sharon Lawrence
Waxman greets breakfast attendees
Donation cards were given to each attendee
Janet Janjigian and Waxman
Kilchaven asks a question during the panels
L.A. Works Founder Donna Bojarsky, Director of Programs for the Milken Institute Nancy Ozeas, ESN President Janice Arouh and Executive Producer Carolyn Folks
Jewelry was part of the charity auction
A Ferragamo purse was auctioned for charity to raise funds for women journalists and the International Women’s Media Foundation
Carolyn Folks
Kichaven, Lawrence and guest chat at Power Women Breakfast
Dean of USC School of Cinematic Arts Elizabeth Daley
Michelle Satter from the Sundance Institute and producer Nancy Collet
Breakfast attendees discuss over breakfast
Producer Christine La Monte
Attendees in line for the breakfast buffet
Bank of America SVP Garrett Gin with other bank executives
Attendees converse
Cinedigm’s Chief Marketing Officer Jill Calcaterra
The scene at TheWrap’s Power Women Breakfast
