Romain Vakilitabar

Biography

Romain Sepehr Vakilitabar is the Executive Director of Pathos Labs, a non-profit focused on building initiatives that leverage the power of entertainment and media to shift dominant narratives.

One initiative is PopShift, which has intimately introduced 250+ of Hollywood’s influential TV writers to the world's leading experts on variety of social issues to use television to catalyze new prosocial behaviors and communicate new ideas to millions of people.

In 2024, Pathos Labs is teaming up with 8 influential media and storytelling organizations (such as MTV and Participant) to work together, as a coalition, to mobilize new narratives that can help rebuild faith in democracy.

Romain was awarded the "Erase the Hate" fellowship from NBCUniversal for his effort to eradicate hatred in America, he is a fellow at Stanford's Polarization and Social Change Lab, he spoke at the world's biggest TEDx event, and has been featured in several best-selling books and academic journals.