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Bringing the world’s most fascinating people together with Hollywood’s most influential storytellers to imagine the future.

Privately and intimately.

NEW DOORS TO

CREATIVITY

We invite the world’s most fascinating people + reputable thought-leaders to meet Hollywood’s most influential storytellers. Why? To tell more imaginative, creative, and impactful stories.

(And to build a collective imagination of a better world.)

WE OFFER

WHAT

CREATIVE
CATALYST

WRITERS’ ROOM SESSIONS

Meant to catalyze new creative ideas (for those in between projects), we curate a diverse room of experts on a variety of critical topics.

Open to all members.

Meant to help generate specific ideas, you select the topic(s), we curate a list of experts and facilitate a private convening for your writers’ room.

Privately, just for you.

INFLUENTIAL WRITERS

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TOP EXPERTS

No panels,

A session of

no presentations,

private 1-on-1

meetings

no platitude.

between:

Instead...

a selection of

the world’s most fascinating minds

Hollywood’s

most influential

storytellers

So far,

WE’VE WORKED WITH

350+ SHOWRUNNERS

AND WRITERS

SOME OF OUR EXPERTS

HAVE includeD:

ADAM GRANT

Author of NYT Bestselling books “Give and Take” and “Originals”, Host of WorkLife podcast with TED

Motivation & Meaning

Expert in:

DESMOND MEADE

President of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC)

Voter Disenfranchisement

Expert:

AUSTIN CHANNING BROWN

NYT Bestselling Author of “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness”

Racial Justice

Expert in:

SUSAN STRYKER

American professor, author, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality

Trans Rights

Expert in:

JENNIFER EBERHARDT

Stanford professor studying psychological associations between race and crime

Racial Bias

Expert in:

SUJATHA BALIGA

Director of the Restorative Justice Project, expert on restorative justice

Restorative Justice

Expert in:

DAN ARIELY

Author of bestselling book “Predictably Irrational” and psychology and behavioral economics at Duke

Behavioral Economics

Expert:

JANE ELLIOTT

American educator known for her “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” experiment

Racial Justice

Expert in:

Chase Strangio

Lawyer and transgender rights activist, staff attorney with the ACLU

Transgender Rights

Expert in:

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Sociologist forcused on race, gender, education, and digital technology. Professor at UNC Chapell Hill

Race & Education

Expert in:

OUR convenings

MAY 19-21, 2025

The Futures Basecamp

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Omidyar Network

1 ROOM

Author of “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness”

Austin Channing Brown

EXPERT IN: Black Womanhood, Racial Justice.

Bringing the world’s most influential storytellers together with humanity’s most insightful, interesting, and important people. Privately and intimately.

Austin Channing Brown

OUR FORMAT

...and many others

*NEXT convening*

The Futures Basecamp

What's next

Date

TOPIC

IN PartnerSHIP With

Previous convenings

EVENT

TOPIC

What showrunners

HAVE SAID

Our partners

FAQ

Why 1-on-1’s?
We believe that by creating a space where showrunners and writers can personally engage with experts & fascinating people new relationships will emerge. We believe that it’s relationships, not information, that catalyze creativity.

Can I watch a past session?

We do not record our convenings. We believe that by making these sessions private, we foster a safe space for folks to speak freely and honestly, and focus on building meaningful connections.

How do you know PopShift works?
On average, 77% of showrunners and writers who attended a PopShift covening have said that they will write their shows differently because of the new connections they made at PopShift.

Stay tuned

We're excited to hear from you! Send us a message and when applicable, we’ll get back to you in 24-48 hours.

Bringing the world to Hollywood to inspire the best stories.

PopShift is a project of Pathos Labs

a non-proﬁt (501c3) laboratory focused on ﬁnding ways that media and entertainment can shift norms in order to create a more empathetic, compassionate, and pluralistic society. PopShift (by Pathos Labs) is not affiliated or associated with Popshift Media.

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