Theresa Kang

Interned for California Senator Barbara Boxer. She also was accepted to intern with the US State Department at the US Embassy in Burma (Myanmar) but did not end up participating due to a career change into entertainment. She was the first Asian American to be promoted to Partner at WME. Additionally, she co-founded Empower, an agency-wide program promoting diversity, inclusion and mentorship. In 2019, she was appointed to Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti's Entrepreneurs in Residence for the Evolve Entertainment Fund focused on increasing diversity initiatives in the entertainment industry. In the same year, she supported the $330M California tax production credit requiring the addition of diversity provisions including above-the-line diversity reporting.