Kathryn Galan is Executive Director of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, a membership organization dedicated to Latino/a media professionals and to increasing the success of their projects and employment. NALIP has nearly 800 producers, directors, writers and other members working in film, documentary and new media. She sits on the Board of Women Makes Movies, and is an independent producer (FRENCH KISS, SQUANTO, DAYBREAK), and former studio executive. She was head of production for Atlantic Entertainment Group and a production Vice President at Walt Disney Studio’s Hollywood Pictures, then ran Meg Ryan’s Prufrock Pictures and her own consultancy firm, EKR Strategies.