Nicole Starr

Biography

Nicole Starr is SVP, Content Representation and Impact at Participant, the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that stands at the intersection of art and activism. In this newly created role, Starr ensures that Participant’s narrative, documentary, and episodic content aligns with the company’s impact priorities and authentically reflects the world around us. This includes applying a lens of impact, issue-based insights and representation at the beginning of the development process and carrying that perspective through production and into the project’s social impact campaign. In her previous role as VP, Social Impact, Starr oversaw the development and execution of impact campaigns for numerous films such as Sundance winner Descendent, Judas and the Black Messiah, RBG, and the Academy Award® winner Roma. Notably, the impact campaign around Roma helped shift the narrative around domestic workers and inspired the cultural conditions for policy change in the US and Mexico.