Program Overview
The Young Entertainment Professionals (YEP) program nurtures the development of talented individuals at the start of their media and entertainment journey with mentoring and education, introductions to industry leaders, invitations to events, and access to resources that will further their careers. Through active participation in HPA, YEPs gain lifetime access to a community of peers and other professionals to help set the course of their careers in this industry.
The 2025 YEP Class
Anna Steele, Light Iron
Ben Abergel, Entertainment Technology Center (ETC)
Casey Spellman, Paramount Global
Dylan Forman, Prime Focus Technologies
Emily Vail, FotoKem
Francisco Ramos Zavala, Gunpowder
Julianna Rogoff, Apple TV+
Kiana Sales, Apple Fitness+
Lisa Marie Erickson, Liberal Eye Productions
Madison Hu, Disney
Maggie Jensen, The Walt Disney Company
Mallory Owyoung, 3BMG
Marie Claire “MC” de Martino, Sony
Maya Roseman, Streamland Media
Miranda Nicusanti, Fox Studios
Natalie Cueva, ArsenalFX Color
Nicholas Camardo, University of Southern California Digital Repository
Paige Ford, Apple
Rodrigo Curiel, Light Iron
Savannah Lew, Flawless AI
Victoria Law, NBCUniversal
YEP participants are chosen in an annual selection process.
YEPs have frequent opportunities to take center stage. YEPs have been seated on panels at the HPA Tech Retreat and at the SMPTE Annual Technical Conference, produced a webinar series, and contributed columns to the HPA NewsLine e-newsletter.
Incubated in 2016 by the Women in Post committee, YEP advances the organization’s goal of cultivating and encouraging the next generation of worthy entertainment professionals to follow a career in the media content industry.
