Dear Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to attend the sixth Committee of 100 Conversations – “Recollections, Pioneers and Heroes” event that will feature Janet Yang who will talk about being “A Pioneer In Film and Entertainment” on September 8, 2025 at 6 pm ET.

Janet Yang, an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Hollywood producer, President of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, a keynote speaker, and a trailblazer and advocate for the AAPI community. She came to prominence through her collaboration with Steven Spielberg on Empire of the Sun, followed by partnerships with Oliver Stone and Lisa Henson. Her extensive Film and TV credits include The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Shanghai Calling and High Crimes. She is a member of the Committee of 100.

This Committee of 100 Conversations program features interviews of Chinese Americans who have contributed to the success of America through their pioneering efforts, heroic achievements, or recollections of important events. Each interview will feature a live broadcast. The video and podcast recordings of the interview will be made available as part of a library of the interviews.

Chinese Americans have contributed greatly to advance the success of this country in many walks of life – science, the arts, agriculture, philanthropy, political leadership, architecture, business, and more.

Peter Young, Committee of 100 Member and Board Member and Chair of the Conversations Program will moderate. The broadcast will be on September 8 from 6 pm Eastern Time to 6:45 pm Eastern Time. There is no fee for the webcast. Please register at https://c100-9-8-2025.eventbrite.com. The video recording and podcast will be published thereafter and will be available on the Committee of 100 website.We hope you will join us. Thank you!Best regards,Committee of 100

Upcoming Committee of 100 Conversations – Recollections, Pioneers and Heroes

July 29, 2025 at 6 pm ET – Linda Tsao Yang, Governance Pioneer, Former U.S. Ambassador and the first woman and the first minority to represent the United States on the board of a multilateral financial institution, she will talk about her pioneering efforts and the challenges of good governance. Please register at https://c100-7-29-2025.eventbrite.com.

August 11, 2025 at 6 pm ET – Gary Locke, is Chairman of the Committee of 100. As Governor of Washington State (the first Chinese American to be elected governor in United States history and the first Asian American governor on the mainland), U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke has been a leader in the areas of education, employment, trade, health care, human rights, immigration reform, privacy, and the environment. Register at https://c100-8-11-2025.eventbrite.com.

October 7, 2025 at 6 pm ET – David Henry Huang, is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays FOB, Golden Child, and Yellow Face. He has one Tony Award (M. Butterfly) and two other nominations (Golden Child and Flower Drum Song). Three of his works (M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, and Soft Power) have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

November 25, 2025 at 6 pm ET – Elaine Chao, former U. S. Secretary of Transportation and U. S. Secretary of Labor, she is the first Asian American woman to be appointed to the President’s cabinet in U.S. history. Secretary Chao was also President and CEO of United Way of America and Director of the Peace Corps. She had previously served as Deputy Secretary of Transportation; Chair, Federal Maritime Commission; Deputy Maritime Administrator; and White House Fellow.

Committee of 100 ConversationsRecollections, Pioneers and Heroes

September 8, 2025 Webcast

▦ Speaker

Janet Yang

Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Hollywood producer

Committee of 100 Member

▦ Moderator:

Peter Young, CEO, Young & Partners

Committee of 100 Member and Board MemberChair of the Committee of 100 Conversations Program

▦ Time:

6:00 pm Eastern Time

The interview will be moderated by Peter Young, Committee of 100 member and Chair of the Committee of 100 Conversations Program. The broadcast will be 45 minutes long.

There is no fee and you can register at: https://c100-9-8-2025.eventbrite.com▦ Speaker Bios:

Janet Yang

Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Hollywood producer

Committee of 100 Member

An Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Hollywood producer, Janet recently completed three oneyear terms as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, ending her tenure on June 30, 2025.

Yang has worked with some of the most formidable filmmakers and talent in the world. She came to prominence through her collaboration with Steven Spielberg on Empire of the Sun (Warner Bros). That was followed by a long partnership with multiple Academy Award-winner Oliver Stone—where she served as Executive Producer on the iconic The Joy Luck Club (Disney), and as a Producer of The People vs. Larry Flynt (Columbia Pictures). Her most recent credit is as an Executive Producer on the Oscar-nominated animated feature, Over the Moon. Based on her original story, the film was directed by legendary animator Glen Keane and released on Netflix in 2020.

Among her many other credits are: the Sundance award-winning Dark Matter (Universal Pictures) with Meryl Streep; The Weight of Water (Lionsgate) directed by Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow with Academy award winner Sean Penn; Savior (Lionsgate) with Dennis Quaid; South Central (Warner Bros.) directed by Steve Anderson; High Crimes (Fox) with Morgan Freeman; a Chinese adaptation of the acclaimed Disney franchise High School Musical; cult favorites Zero Effect, by Jake Kasdan, and Shanghai Calling with China Film Group. Yang won an Emmy and Golden Globe Award for the HBO movie Indictment: The McMartin Trial.

Most recently, Yang was named one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood” by the Hollywood Reporter, Variety’s Power of Women 2023, and was featured on the Forbes 2024 “50 over 50” List. Yang began her career by running the first distribution company to market Chinese films into North America. She also brokered the reintroduction of American cinema to the Chinese marketplace on behalf of several studios after a decades-long hiatus.

Committed to fostering global understanding, Yang is a co-founder of Gold House, the nonprofit collective of influential Asian cultural leaders; a long-standing member of the Committee of 100, an organization of the most prominent Chinese-Americans; and an advisory board member of Asia Society Southern California where she also chairs its highly regarded US-Asia Entertainment Summit. Yang serves on the IMAX China Board, the Forbes APEX VIP Founding Advisory Board, and the board of Unified Youth, a mental-health-focused organization.

Yang is the first Asian American president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and also has a pillar dedicated to her inside the Renzo Piano-designed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. In April 2025, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures established the Janet Yang Endowment, honoring her historic tenure as President of the Academy. The endowment will support programming that explores and elevates the contributions of filmmakers from historically underrepresented communities, with a special emphasis on Asian American and Pacific Islander artists.

Yang holds a B.A. from Brown University in Chinese studies and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. She was appointed as a Presidential Fellow at Loyola Marymount University and recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree in Humane Letters from Bowdoin College.

▦ Moderator and Chair of the Committee of 100 Conversations Program

Peter Young

CEO, Young & Partners

Committee of 100 Member and Board Member

Chair of the Committee of 100 Conversations Program

Peter Young is CEO of Young & Partners, a boutique investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He manages the firm and is actively involved in client transactions and financings. Under his leadership, Young & Partners has established and maintained its position as a highly regarded firm serving the corporate strategy, M&A, restructuring and financing needs of clients worldwide. He was previously head of industry groups at Salomon Brothers, Schroders and Lehman Brothers, a senior private equity executive with J.H. Whitney & Co. and a senior member of Bain & Co., the corporate strategy firm.Mr. Young received a BA in Economics from Yale, an MS in Accounting from NYU, and MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated with Distinction as a Baker Scholar. He is a CPA and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He serves on a number of boards of directors, both corporate and non-profit and is a board member of Société de Chimie Industrielle, a leading life science and chemical industry non-profit organization and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Pharmaceutical Executive.

The Committee of 100The Committee of 100 (C100) is a non-profit, non-partisan leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans in business, government, academia, and the arts founded 36 years ago.

The Committee’s purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in the dual mission of:

• Promoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community
• Advancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China

To learn more about the organization, please go to https://www.committee100.org.