Heather Fipps

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ABOUT HEATHER FIPPS

Heather architects community experiences and media projects that transform environmental narratives into cultural movements. As Co-Founder of the Hollywood Climate Summit, she has worked alongside an incredible team to build a global platform that has engaged over creative professionals across film, TV, video games, and social media to take climate action through storytelling. Through prestigious partnerships with The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Netflix, NBCUniversal, and CAA, Hollywood Climate Summit catalyzes industry-wide narrative movements for climate action. As Senior Program Director at The Redford Center—one of the only US nonprofits dedicated to environmental impact filmmaking—she led the development of the organization\'s five-year strategic plan. She guided and operationalized the strategy for the organization\'s grantmaking in support of environmental films and impact campaigns. She also developed the \"Bridging Environmental Values\" initiative to foster bipartisan storytelling on environmental issues. She established strategic partnerships, including collaborations with REI Cooperative Action Fund, Mountain Film, Energy Foundation, and the League of Conservation Voters. Her work provided crucial support for over 50 documentaries that have reached millions, changed policy, and mobilized environmental self-determination in communities. As a filmmaker, she worked as Head of Video Production at the Studio of Mark Bradford, where she directed Process Collettivo, a documentary that supported social cooperatives reforming Italy\'s prison system. The Global Campus of Human Rights awarded special recognition to the film and the team\'s social impact work. Her creative producing spans collaborations with PBS, League of Conservation Voters, the US Department of Health, and California Air Resources Board. Previously, as Professor of Film and Television at California State University Los Angeles, she founded Community Impact Media, a first-of-its-kind impact media training program incubated with a $1 million grant from Hauser & Wirth. She curricularized impact-driven media implementation and measurement strategies. She\'s spoken on media\'s essential role in climate response at the United Nations, Clinton Foundation, and National Science Foundation. Her work has been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, LA Times, New York Times, Forbes, and Rolling Stone. She is currently developing gaming sector climate toolkits with UNEP\'s Playing for the Planet initiative and NRDC\'s Rewrite the Future.