Debra Martin Chase is an influential and powerful force in the film industry. She has been responsible for producing some of the most well-known films that speak to an entire generation of young women and people of color. If you’ve seen Sparkle, The Princess Diaries, Cheetah Girls, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Just Wright or Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, then you are familiar with her vision of female power and diversity in film and television.

Chase was the first African-American female producer to have a deal with a major studio.

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