Christopher Bell, Ph.D. is the former Director of Creative Inclusion at Skydance Animation Studios and a nationally-recognized TEDx speaker and David Letterman Award winning media scholar in the area of representations of gender in children’s media. He also serves as the Executive in Residence in the College of communication, Media, Design and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Bell’s executive story and worldbuilding consultant and writer's credits include Pixar’s Onward and Soul and Skydance Animation’s Luck, Spellbound, WondLA, and Pookoo.