Prior to accepting the Skoll Scholarship and attending Said Business School, Christie George was the Theatrical and International Broadcast Sales Manager at Women Make Movies, a non-profit media arts organization and the world’s leading distributor of films by and about women. With more than six years of experience in non-profit arts management, her responsibilities have ranged from the theatrical release of the company’s slate of independently produced social-issue documentaries to most recently managing all the company’s sales and marketing efforts for the theatrical, broadcast and ancillary markets. Since joining WMM in 2001, she has played a key role in helping set strategic direction for the organization and launching new initiatives, including curating and releasing ‘The Girls Project’, a critically acclaimed series of films celebrating girls’ lives around the world and one of the most successful collections in the organization’s history. As an advocate for women directors, she has represented WMM at festivals worldwide and has served on numerous screening committees and program juries including the Denver International Film Festival and the Media That Matters Film Festival among others. She was an Associate Curator for Tribeca All Access, a Venman Fellow at the Institute for Arts Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and serves on the Advisory Board for the National Museum of Women in the Arts Film Festival. Previously, she was a consultant for NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and worked for Mediacom Ventures, LLC, a venture capital firm with holdings in media and online businesses. She received her BA in Political Science from Yale University.