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What do QD, MSU and LBWL smokestacks have in common? If you know...then you must be from Lansing!

What do QD, MSU and LBWL smokestacks have in common? If you know...then you must be from Lansing!

I went to school for story — for english — and then i got pregnant, right after college, and i had this baby and i was like, "what am "i going to do?" and somebody told me there was a job called reading, and i was like reading isajob!? sign me up! i get paid to read? so that's what i did, and thatjust created an opening into the world of cinema for me. and then women — it was amy pascal and dawn steele — and they recognised my affinity for writing and for analysing material and they promoted me, and the first thing i did was find somebody to replace me in the story department because i...

What do QD, MSU and LBWL smokestacks have in common? If you know...then you must be from Lansing!

And i was like reading is a job!? sign me up! so that's what i did, and that just created an opening into the world of cinema for me, and then women — it was amy pascal and dawn steele. they recognised my affinity for writing and for analysing material they promoted me, and the first thing i did was find somebody to replace me in the story department because i was the only person of colour there. keri, stephanie says two women were instrumental in helping her. what about you 7 what helped you succeed? i would say i didn't have the luck to have a woman boss early on. but the big boss of origi...