Sue Hen and Megan Rapinoe’s Manufacturing Firm Names Camille Bernier-Inexperienced as Head of Growth (EXCLUSIVE)

A Contact Extra, the manufacturing firm based by world-renowned athletes Sue Hen and Megan Rapinoe, has introduced the hiring of trade veteran Camille Bernier-Inexperienced as its head of improvement.

Final December, Selection solely revealed that Hen, a five-time Olympic gold medalist and basketball legend, and Rapinoe, a two-time FIFA World Cup-winning soccer celebrity, would develop their affect past sports activities and launch the manufacturing firm in partnership with Togethxr.

The label’s title is a reference to its mission to “carry a contact extra understanding, connection, leisure, and dialog to the evolving media panorama” by granting a platform to underrepresented voices of ladies, LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC creators.

Information of Bernier-Inexperienced’s appointment comes after Rapinoe bid farewell to worldwide soccer on Sunday, main the US. Girls’s Nationwide Group to a 2-0 conquer South Africa.

“I’m excited to be becoming a member of such a strong staff and to work alongside Megan and Sue,” Camille Bernier-Inexperienced mentioned in an announcement. “The A Contact Extra staff is obsessed with telling tales from underrepresented communities and creating house for extra voices, an effort that’s close to and expensive to my coronary heart. I’m thrilled and humbled by this dream alternative.”

Within the new function, Bernier-Inexperienced might be liable for constructing out the corporate’s inaugural programming slate of each scripted and unscripted initiatives. A Contact Extra was concerned with launching the profitable ESPN “30 for 30” podcast “Pink Card,” a four-part sequence from Peabody-winning producer Shima Oliaee, which adopted the lives of ladies in Iran preventing for the fitting to look at soccer. 

Bernier-Inexperienced joins A Contact Extra after serving because the director of documentaries for Disney’s Onyx Collective and has produced and developed initiatives for Bravo, HBO, Fb and ABC Information. All through her profession, Bernier-Inexperienced has helped shepherd such initiatives because the Emmy-wining sequence “Purple Desk Discuss,” the Peabody Award-winning documentary “Aftershock,” Critics Alternative award-nominated “9 Months with Courtney Cox” and the docuseries “Fairly Child: Brooke Shields,” which is presently nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Bernier-Inexperienced additionally produced “Miso,” an impartial brief movie that follows the growing friendship between a lady and her doula.