Ana-Christina Ramón, Ph.D.

Director of Entertainment and Media Research Initiative (EMRI)

Dr. Ana-Christina Ramón is the inaugural Director of the Entertainment and Media Research Initiative (EMRI) at UCLA.  The initiative is housed in the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), which is a unit of the UCLA Division of Social Sciences.  Dr. Ramón is a social psychologist who has worked on social justice issues related to equity and access in higher education and the entertainment industry for two decades.  As the founding director of EMRI, she manages the research initiative, which produces the UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report, and additional research projects on entertainment and media.  Since October 2022, she has been the lead author of EMRI’s bi-annual UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report, along with other publications related to this research.  She also co-edited a book (with Dr. Darnell Hunt) titled Black Los Angeles:  American Dreams and Racial Realities (New York University Press, 2010).  She is the inaugural Latino Film Institute Scholar.