Tara Lee Ford runs Oddball Films, the San Francisco stock footage archive holding over 50,000 film elements of the strange, beautiful and forgotten. A theater and dance performer who spent four decades alongside founder Stephen Parr, she now keeps the 'oddball' in Oddball Films.
Judene Jean-Louis is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz's Cultural Leadership Fund - the first VC fund comprised exclusively of Black cultural leaders committed to Black wealth generation. A Jamaican immigrant and Brooklyn native who trained professionally as a dancer, she brought dual MFA and MBA credentials to Silicon Valley's most ambitious experiment in cultural capital. At a16z, she bridges world-class entertainers, athletes, and cultural icons with early-stage technology investments, while funneling all management fees and carry back into nonprofits that funnel Black talent into tech.