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OnBoard, which debuted as a Tribeca World Premiere Special Screening, is a brilliant chronicle of the rise of Black women on America's boards! The film unpacks the evolution of board diversity from Patricia Roberts Harris in 1971 - the first Black woman to serve on a Fortune 500 board and a hidden figure of America's corporate boardrooms, to the present day, as seen through the eyes of a group of fearless women organized during the Summer of 2020 to create change.   The film shares the story of two friends, Merline Saintil, a former Tech COO, and Robin Washington, a former CFO, who were well-known in the boardrooms of America and kept getting calls to join boards but were at capacity. During an ordinary phone call between the two women, something extraordinary happened– the movement to create an organization to expand the opportunity and exposure of Black women who can impact America's boards was born. Black Women on Boards was conceived after inviting 18 women to a Zoom happy hour to hatch a plan. Fast forward 18 months and 200+ Black women later, they ignited a global movement that re-tools the boardroom's age-old board member process and increased the presence of Black women on the boards of public and private companies while lifting the aspirations of generations of young women of color to come.  Written and directed by Deborah Riley Draper (Coffee Bluff Pictures), known for critically acclaimed films, including Twenty Pearls: The Story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., fashion cult classic Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution, and the seminal sports documentary Olympic Pride, American Prejudice.    Executive Produced by Shannon Nash, an award-winning filmmaker whose film Colored My Mind won the American Pavilion Film Award in Cannes, public company board member, tech CFO, attorney, and CPA, and former Tech COO and prolific board member Merline Saintil, who has taken six companies public.   "OnBoard," the groundbreaking documentary, garnered widespread acclaim, including the Jury Award: Social Impact Stories at the 2023 Essence Film Festival.

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OnBoard: Story of Black Women On Boards