Supporting underrepresented voices & increasing media representation.

Vanessa Ferlaino is an award-winning artist with Hispanic and Italian-immigrant roots. Her show, The Human Challenge, features underrepresented voices and community members, with over 90% stories women-led stories and 70% diverse representation. Her books and music have raised funds for Indigenous communities, and she founded The Being Human Foundation to work toward accurate media representation. Vanessa is an inspirational and motivational speaker, sharing her journey as a multicultural artist increasing media representation. Learn how her ethnicity contributes to the stories she shares in her work, and why it's so important for her to share stories by underrepresented community members.

Other highlights:

• A lack of media representation impacted Vanessa’s life and upbringing, from the products she used to career choices she made — but also finetuned her 6th sense and made her resilient.

• Vanessa’s immigrant upbringing contributed to her work ethic as a “jack of all trades” solopreneur, award-winning artist, and host/producer.

• Vanessa learned about the true power of community by collaborating with underrepresented community members.

• Hearing and sharing stories from underrepresented voices is more important now than ever, and actively contributes to social change.

• Bring diversity to your own media and/or social media channels, from pre to post production. Plus the #1 question Vanessa asks herself in the editing room!