Yvette M. Miley is Executive Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for NBCUniversal News Group, reporting directly to the Chairman, Cesar Conde. During her 31-year career with NBC, she has received many of journalism’s highest honors including: five Emmy Awards; ten Edward R. Murrow Awards; a Society of Professional Journalists’ Award; a DuPont-Columbia University Award; a George Foster Peabody Award; and four Associated Press Awards. Ms. Miley is co-founder of the Miley Miller Foundation, Inc., an organization focused on bridging the gap that often keeps individuals of color from achieving their educational goals by awarding scholarships to those in need.
Odessa Rae (Producer) is an Academy Award and BAFTA winning producer who was key in the formation of Ivanhoe Pictures, which produced the box office hit, CRAZY RICH ASIANS. Since finishing her multiyear First-Look deal at Ivanhoe Pictures in early 2019, Rae has been producing independently. Odessa has become widely known for producing the Academy Award winning documentary, NAVALNY (CNN Films/Warner Bros.) that premiered at Sundance (2022), winning “Best of Fest” and “Audience Award”. Odessa’s films have been shown at festivals around the world, most recently opening Venice Film Festival with the critically acclaimed award winning film HOLLYWOODGATE. She has received multiple honors including PGA, Dupont, Greirson, Cinema Eye and Critics Choice Awards. Odessa is the recipient of the 2023 UN Sustainable Goals Impact Through Film Award.
Christina DeConcini ‘18 graduated from Sacred Heart Greenwich in 2018 and went on to earn a B.A. in Cinema Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. While in New York, Christina worked as a Film Unit intern and Production Assistant for Season 47 of Saturday Night Live, among other internship positions at Superprime Films, ImageMovers, and PAPER Magazine. Christina currently is a creative freelancer in London, primarily working at the British Film Institute as a BFI Film Academy Young Programmer. There, she curates film submissions and programs industry events for the BFI Future Film Festival, the UK’s largest festival for young and emerging filmmakers. She also interviews filmmakers, writes editorial content for social channels, and continues her work on independent filmmaking projects.
Peter Marshall came out of the LORT A theater world and performed in plays at The Hartford Stage Company, Baltimore Center Stage, The Guthrie, The Yale Rep, and others in the 1980’s. He fell sideways into producing telefilms for HBO, Showtime, USA Networks, in the 1990’s before becoming the head of production at Trimark Television, a tenure perhaps most notable for a CBS telefilm The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn. Mr. Marshall moved on to become the second in charge of feature film production at Lionsgate in its arthouse film period. Since 2006, Mr. Marshall has risk managed and insured hundreds of feature films around the world, currently doing so for over thirty films each year from an outpost in Greenwich. Mr. Marshall is a proud parent of Alexandra '23 and a former Trustee of Sacred Heart Greenwich.
