
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

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