Vavani Productions develops and produces ethos-driven films and television that move the conversation forward. Our documentaries and narratives compel audiences to confront some of the deepest issues of our time while spotlighting authentic stories and their tellers, steeped in lived experience. We partner with diverse creators, producers, financiers, and distributors to make moments matter.

The Impact Guild is a professional network for people who create, use, or distribute media, arts, or entertainment for social good or healthy democracy. Our mission is to connect, support and activate our members and their work to address the toughest issues facing our field and the world at large. The Impact Guild consists of 19 Peer Groups, each representing specific fields of impact expertise in the media, arts, and entertainment industry and each establishing criteria for membership in their group. Members include hundreds of media executives, independent content creators, academics, artists, campaigners, strategists, funders, influencers and others who share common set of values and promote them through their work.

KaleidoCollective is a curated network of queer and trans creatives, executives, and other professionals in media, arts, and entertainment, who aim to make the world a safer, more enriching place for our community through narrative change and culture-shift efforts. We envision a world where queer and trans communities can see the breadth of our diversity authentically reflected in the media milieu; where empathic representations forge broad acceptance and embrace; where the careers of queer and trans storytellers and culture-makers are thriving and sustained; and where no content about us is made without us. We are empowered to contribute to the collective discourse. We make greenlight decisions. We foster emerging talent and celebrate established success. We are durable, scalable, and adaptable. We exist to (1) expand the market share of queer and trans content that gets professionally produced and distributed, and (2) ensure that members of our community are creatively propelling those works and getting paid for their efforts. In other words, we work to get more queer and trans content made, and more of our people paid.

The Lightspark Foundation (est. 2016) is a 501(c)(3) private foundation dedicated to improving social equity and environmental sustainability in Utah and strengthening democracy in the United States. Our grants focus on organizations doing meaningful work with tangible results that directly improve outcomes in their communities. Before Lightspark narrowed its focus to efforts that improve Utah and strengthen democracy, the Foundation supported various startup initiatives like the Lightspark Media Summit in 2017 and 2018, the Impact Guild in 2019 and, in 2020—in response to the COVID-19 pandemic—the Nourish to Flourish Initiative. In 2022 and beyond, the majority of Lightspark’s activities have transitioned to grantmaking in our core areas of focus.

The University of San Diego is a top-100 private Roman Catholic research university in San Diego, California with colleges in the Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, Law, Leadership and Education Sciences, Nursing and Health Sciences, and Peace Studies. The College of Arts and Sciences, founded along with the University in 1949, features 28 majors and 35 minors, four graduate programs, 20 departments, 225 full-time faculty, and 19 honor and professional societies. Led by Dean Noelle Norton, PhD, the College offers one-on-one faculty mentoring, practical experience, and global research opportunities for students in the arts, humanities and social sciences to help prepare graduates for a meaningful career and a purposeful life.