Raeshem Nijhon is an Emmy, NAACP, Critics Choice and IDA Award nominated filmmaker and founder of Culture House - a Black, Brown and Women owned media company and cultural consultancy. We create film and television, immersive experiences, content for brands and oversee cultural consults for the creative and corporate sectors across content, events, campaigns and programming and curation. Raeshem is a Director and Executive Producer of the Netflix Top 10 docu-series, Ladies First, about women in hip hop. She is an Executive Producer of The Hair Tales, a premium doc series for Onyx/Hulu about Black hair and beauty hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross and EP’d alongside Oprah Winfrey, Growing Up, a doc-narrative hybrid series for Disney+ with Brie Larson, about revisiting our adolescence and Black Twitter for Hulu, directed by Prentice Penny and in partnership with Conde Nast. Her film (as Director), The Agreement, a feature documentary about the UN Sustainable Development goals following Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed was selected to premiere at the UN General Assembly 2023. Raeshem works closely with the United Nations Department of Partnerships to champion the Global Goals through her work and advocacy.

Raeshem sits on the board for the New York Center for Communications, an organization dedicated to bringing more diversity to the media and entertainment industry, serving over 4500 students from 185+ colleges and universities annually. She serves on the Creative Council for EMILY'S List and is an active member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the Dell Women’s Entrepreneurship Network.

Raeshem began her career as a Producer at MTV Desi, MTV Chi and MTV K - some of the first linear channels featuring Asian American and global diasporic talent and content. She went on to hold multiple creative leadership positions including Executive Producer of Viacom’s MTV World where she produced Clio/Webby winning nonfiction series Rebel Music, about youth using art for change in conflict zones, and The Music Experiment, featuring artists like Of Monsters and Men, Santigold and Arcade Fire. Select pro-social work includes partnerships with Planned Parenthood, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Nicole Galovski is Co-Founder and Executive Producer at Culture House. She is one of the creators and the showrunner of Growing Up, a hybrid docuseries for Disney+ with Brie Larson, she is also the executive producer of The Hair Tales for Hulu and OWN and an upcoming Netflix docuseries about race and gender in America. She produced 2022 Tribeca premiere Of Medicine and Miracles about Dr. Carl June's ground-breaking cure for childhood leukemia, and Netflix's What Would Sophia Loren Do which was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Scripted feature film credits include NYTimes critic pick All Creatures Here Below (Samuel Goldwyn) and Tribeca premiere Poor Boy (Indican Pictures). Credits also include Showtime Documentary Tough Guys, and Jon Stewart’s Emmy Nominated HBO special Night of Too Many Stars. She has produced award-winning brand work for Toyota, Microsoft, Apple, Orangetheory, Serena Williams, University of Utah, and Visit Philadelphia. Nicole’s work has received support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UN Foundation, Impact Partners, Artemis Rising Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Utah Film Center.

Carri Twigg is Co-founder and Head of Development for Culture House Media, a Black, Brown, women owned, premium film and TV production services and immersive experiences company that specializes in storytelling about the cultural questions that shape society, politics, and identity.

Before her pivot to entertainment, Carri spent 15 years working at every level of American politics and government. Carri went on to serve in the Obama White House as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Public Engagement for then Vice President Biden.

In 2022, Carri was appointed by President Biden to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts and the Kennedy Center board, where she will advise the administration and the Kennedy Center on diversifying national programming and arts funding. Carri has been a featured speaker at SXSW, TEDx Women, Boston College, Goldman Sachs, The Aspen Institute and many more.

Mikhael Tara Garver is a pioneer in the immersive field. For 20 years she has led the way in creating, directing, and developing transformative live experiences across the globe.

She has worked across brands, national arts organizations, social justice organizations, and civic centers. She has created work in rock clubs, mile-long riversides, national parks, theaters, and most recently her biggest adventure yet… a galaxy far far away. Mikhael was the Director of Immersive Experience creating the THEA award-winning Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser.

Starcruiser fulfilled her dream of 20 years: a two day, 3 night immersive narrative experience that meets people where they are and gently involves them in the epic possibilities of our world. Not having been a Star Wars fan before she landed on the ship…. Mikhael has always been a believer of the potential of this craft in creating transformative experiences. And Starcruiser shows her everyday how the power of high-quality immersive narrative + performance can bring us together…its like being a part of “the force.”

She has built award-winning experiences for AMC Television, Amazon, The National Park Service, Bloomberg, Serino/Coyne, BBDO, Hormel, Tentrr, & Smirnoff. She has also done work for brands such as IDEO, Facebook, and Virgin. Garver was the Creative Director for the band, Great Caesar, and developed an immersive journey through 18 hidden shows over 8 days at SXSW!

Her journey along the way has seen her at the center of many of the major immersive junctions: a director on American Repertory Theater’s Initial Production of Sleep No More; a founding board member of the Immersive Experience Institute; awarded the first ever immersive commissions from The Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland; a multi-year grantee of Pop Culture Collaborative - identified as a leading Pop Culture Leader making culture change; an International Sacatar Fellow in Bahia, Brazil writing her book on immersive; and a Lead Creative Consultant for Walt Disney Imagineering.

Garver has been at the forefront of developing the massive business potential of live immersive entertainment. She has spent her career consulting and building multiple business models that leverage the unique diversity of revenue in this entertainment field while fundamentally centering artists, audience, and culture change. She has seen, first-hand the potential of this multi-billion dollar industry, and believes that immersive’s power is the scale of what and who it can include. It is not a silo’d entertainment industry. She is proof that the work extends and can connect across businesses, brands, live entertainment, podcasts, streaming, civic spaces, new technology, music, and more.

Garver created the advanced program in Making, Directing, and Leadership for NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has spoken and taught on Arts and Democracy at North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale, Columbia University, Harvard, DePaul, Montclair State, as well as other universities. Her speaking and thought leadership around Innovative Experiential Content - where digital and live platforms work in concert - has been a keynote at the Immersive Design Summit, Switchpoint, Lincoln Center, and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas. She has an MFA with honors from Columbia University. She most recently spoke at NAMT on innovation in curriculum to shift the pipeline of higher arts education. She is currently an associate professor at the Johnny Carson Center for the Emerging Media Arts where she teaches “How Live Entertainment Experiences Lead Culture Change.” Mikhael worked at many of the theaters across the country as a director and creator including The Public Theater, Steppenwolf Theater, The Playwrights Center, among many others.

She resides in Los Angeles. And is proud to be the Head of (newly launched) Culture House Immersive

Jaimie Woo is Culture House's VP of Development & Consultancy, in which she leads the company's premium documentary and unscripted slate, serves as lead consultant within Culture House's consultancy, and manages cross-functionally with Culture House Immersive on project development and fundraising.

Jaimie started her career as a community organizer before working for then-Vice President Joe Biden on gender violence policy at the Obama White House. She later served as a communications director in the U.S. House of Representatives. After co-authoring New York Times best-seller YES SHE CAN, Jaimie endeavored to use film, television, and creative storytelling to affect cultural change and amplify underrepresented voices. Jaimie is also an adjunct instructor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism graduate program.

Prior to her work at Culture House, Jaimie worked as a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) consultant and facilitator, produced social impact campaigns, associate-produced Emmy-nominated short films for Oscar-winning Breakwater Studios, and supported Emmy-nominated director, Sam Esmail. She serves on the Associates Board of the Hollywood Radio & Television Society (HRTS) and is a founding board member of Young Entertainment Activists (YEA). Jaimie has previously served as a judge for the Austin Film Festival's Script Competition, a writer’s mentor for the CineStory Foundation, and script reader for The Black List.

Jaimie is a proud daughter of Chinese immigrants and is a graduate of both Duke University and the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

Kierna Conner was a part of the original creative development team for Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, and played an integral leadership role in the show’s maintenance as an immersive trainer and stunt captain. Kierna has directed, coached and performed internationally across Europe, China, and throughout the U.S. Her work has been featured in No Proscenium, the NY Times, Polygon and more. Past clients include Buzzfeed, Walmart, Adobe, Virgin, Yayapa Children’s Theatre, and Marvel.