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Before the Covid-19 pandemic wiped out 2020’s live events calendar, Leah Harper-Lane was preparing to help produce a tentpole event for a media brand that typically draws around 20 million online impressions. During a planning meeting, Harper-Lane noticed something that’s been common in her 20-year career producing live broadcast events.
“We were in a meeting with more than 80 people, and there were only two Black people—I was one of them,” she said.
As a Black woman who’s spent much of her career as a freelance producer, Harper-Lane considers herself fortunate to have worked her way up to a senior position in the broadcast event space that’s not limited to just multicultural programming.
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