Both in her role in the broader industry and within Disney+, for which she helped grow subscribers by 40% since joining in 2022, Bowen is dedicated to championing and empowering women. Notably, she recognized the challenges women and working parents faced during the pandemic’s early days and found ways to create supportive spaces for them to cope and process their difficulties.

“Advancement for women takes relationships and allies of all kinds, support with family and caregiving, an incredible team of colleagues, a dynamic range of communication styles and boundless resilience.”

What’s something you admire about Gen Z? I try to avoid stereotypes in general, but I see a profound shift in the social justice mindset of this generation on virtually every dimension. Their ability to look beyond differences, see biases in plain sight, engage with each other empathetically and hold their judgement is so strikingly different to my own generation. It makes me very optimistic for the future.

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