Emily Sandifer
A Touch More, the manufacturing firm based by world-renowned athletes Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe, has introduced the hiring of business veteran Camille Bernier-Green as its head of growth.
Last December, Variety solely revealed that Bird, a five-time Olympic gold medalist and basketball legend, and Rapinoe, a two-time FIFA World Cup-winning soccer celebrity, would increase their affect past sports activities and launch the manufacturing firm in partnership with Togethxr.
The label’s identify is a reference to its mission to “bring a touch more understanding, connection, entertainment, and conversation to the evolving media landscape” by granting a platform to underrepresented voices of ladies, LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC creators.
News of Bernier-Green’s appointment comes after Rapinoe bid farewell to worldwide soccer on Sunday, main the US. Women’s National Team to a 2-0 conquer South Africa.
“I’m excited to be joining such a powerful team and to work alongside Megan and Sue,” Camille Bernier-Green stated in a press release. “The A Touch More team is passionate about telling stories from underrepresented communities and creating space for more voices, an effort that is near and dear to my heart. I’m thrilled and humbled by this dream opportunity.”
In the brand new position, Bernier-Green will likely be chargeable for building out the corporate’s inaugural programming slate of each scripted and unscripted tasks. A Touch More was concerned with launching the profitable ESPN “30 for 30” podcast “Pink Card,” a four-part sequence from Peabody-winning producer Shima Oliaee, which adopted the lives of ladies in Iran combating for the proper to look at soccer.
Bernier-Green joins A Touch More after serving because the director of documentaries for Disney’s Onyx Collective and has produced and developed tasks for Bravo, HBO, Facebook and ABC News. Throughout her profession, Bernier-Green has helped shepherd such tasks because the Emmy-wining sequence “Red Table Talk,” the Peabody Award-winning documentary “Aftershock,” Critics Choice award-nominated “9 Months with Courtney Cox” and the docuseries “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” which is presently nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. Bernier-Green additionally produced “Miso,” an unbiased brief movie that follows the creating friendship between a girl and her doula.
