Kiona Owens is a multi-disciplined creative and Global Diversity Officer with over 10 years of combined experience in both public and private sectors supplying strategic diversity inclusion programming. An expert at gathering performance data to help remove barriers to inclusion in the sports, entertainment, and art industries. Kiona’s current work includes producing an Industry Report that focuses on inclusion in the entertainment industry for underrepresented groups. Kiona seeks to provide qualitative and quantitative data and analysis on the realities of working in the entertainment industry based on gender and race, barriers and impediments to entry, and provide solutions for industry change, to include a trade festival. Having graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University in Communications (Audio Production), and a Master of Science degree in Entertainment Business Management from Full Sail University, Kiona’s most notable accomplishments include serving as the Director of Research for CBS Radio’s, WPGC 95.5 FM, where she managed a team that provided business intelligence and data analysis to program and promote diverse music on-air; securing minority talent for a booking on “Orange is the New Black,” a Netflix original series; and providing creative direction to the Washington Fusion, DC’s first mixed-gender basketball team comprised of players from both the NBA and WNBA. Kiona currently serves as the Principal Creator of Creative Enterprise Consults, a boutique consultancy that provides business solutions to DC’s creative economy.