The #ChangeHollywood Writer’s Room Database of Experts and Anti-Racist Trainer Directory are resources aimed at helping the industry fulfill all its anti-racist pledges made following the national social justice protests last year.
The database’s experts, which the nonprofit civil rights advocacy organization notes mostly includes those who are “Black, people of color and/or women” or are organizations run by them, will come with “deep knowledge and first-hand experience” in various areas.
That includes law enforcement tactics and procedures; the justice system including immigration; science and technology such as surveillance, forensics and medicine; and social issues ranging from the influence of big tech to workers and the economy. American history, Black culture and social activism are also among the areas of expertise that the Writer’s Room Database offers to productions, with the organization noting that it will operate like a living tool that will continue to be updated to “fill in gaps in representation and topical expertise.”
While there are a growing number of expert databases developed by similar organizations within and outside of Hollywood, Color of Change’s database takes a different approach to how it vets and defines an expert. “We realize that ‘expertise’ is too often synonymous with reinforcing the authority and influence of white men,” the