Bonnie Abaunza
Producer - Impact Producer | The Conversation
Bonnie Abaunza is a social entrepreneur, filmmaker and pioneer in the emerging field of Social Impact Entertainment (SIE), which leverages the power of entertainment to catalyze change on some of the world’s toughest challenges.
He was the founding Executive Director for the Skoll Center for SIE in Hollywood — the first center in the world of its kind. Here, with his partner Participant Media, he published The State of SIE, the first book on the topic, featuring articles by industry leaders like Pat Mitchell, Gus Van Sant, Don Cheadle and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Peter is the founder and director of The Power of Story, a new SIE consultancy and production company. Its first project — a documentary series and integrated social impact campaign based on The Conversation, Robert Livingston’s eponymous book about a radically non-judgmental approach to ending systemic racism.
He has created and led numerous social impact campaigns while Head of Communications and Development for the World Economic Forum’s think and do tank (the Global Agenda Councils), charged with tackling the world’s most pressing environmental, social and geopolitical issues.
Before that, Peter was Head of Development for Paramount Pictures’ The Ladd Company, directed Entropy Films’ feature length documentary Beyond our Differences and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2007.
He earned his MBA from the University of Oxford, an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, both focused on social entrepreneurship, and a BFA in Film and Television from NYU’s Tisch School of Arts.