Samantha Wright

Biography

Samantha Wright is the Senior Vice President of Social Impact at Participant, where she is currently building campaigns around narrative and documentary films covering a range of issues from public health to racial equity to environmental justice. Previously, she worked closely with filmmaker Jeff Orlowski to build the impact arm of Exposure Labs. In this role, she produced impact campaigns around the Emmy-award winning film Chasing Coral (2017), and launched the climate film accelerator, Unstoppable. Samantha's fascination with storytelling for social change began when she lived in China running TEDxBeijing, and it turned into an obsession while leading Girl Rising's expansion to India. She has an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, and lives in LA with her husband and 2 year old daughter.