Sandra J. Evers-Manly | Producer

Sandra J. Evers-Manly, President & Founder - Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center and former president of the Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP in Los Angeles, California. Evers-Manly founded the Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) in 1996. As a nonprofit, public benefit organization, BHERC is designed to advocate, educate, research, develop, and preserve the history and future of Black images in film and television. Through film festivals, award ceremonies, book signings, script readings, contests, scholarships, other programs, and special events, BHERC recognizes the contributions of Black men and women in front of and behind the scenes in the entertainment industry. Evers-Manly is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). In the corporate world, Evers-Manly is vice president of Global Corporate Responsibility for Northrop Grumman Corporation and was instrumental in founding, and, subsequently building, the thriving Northrop Grumman Foundation, of which she is President.