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Origin of Rainbows Foundation, Inc [“Company”] was founded in
July 2008 as a non-profit entity in order to educate the world
on colorism's impact on our history and future. The founders,
Chimene Davis-White and Bonnie L. Franklin have committed
themselves to the continued awareness of colorism and
encouraging new generations to re-evaluate self-worth based on
skin tone. In 2009, the founders brought in Robin McDougal
to provide a much needed educational facet to the project scope. In addition to sensitivity and awareness
training seminars as planned initiatives for K-5 to corporate
citizens, the Company plans to develop, produce, and
distribute the feature length documentary film, Origin of
Rainbows: Colorism Exposed. The founders have worked
steadily developing the documentary project since 2003.
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Chimene Davis, Co-Founder
Chimene graduated with a BFA degree in Communication Arts in 1985 from
New York Institute of Technology in Westbury, NY. As a veteran of the
entertainment industry for 16 years, Chimene has produced: programming,
music videos and national advertising campaigns, which include radio,
print and television commercials for fortune 500 hundred companies.
After years of producing commercials for Young & Rubicam, a major client
at New York’s Tulchin Studio (Now Metro Studios), the advertising agency
offered her the opportunity to lead both the creative and accountant
management team on national fortune 500 company accounts such as
Colgate-Palmolive, American Home Foods, Jell-O, Eastman Kodak, Lever
Brother, Whitehall and Estee Lauder. Chimene is a New York Institute of
Technology Alumni media business mentor for the last 10 years.
The long-standing relationships with Corporate Advertising community
lead Mrs. Davis to play a lead management role in the in-house commercial
division at NBA Entertainment. Her responsibility at NBA Entertainment’s
includes acting as head producer for both the creative division and
client account management teams, overseeing the location shoots and
managing production budgets for NBA in-house corporate advertisers such
as: Nike, Logo Athletics, and Champion Sports Apparel to name a few. Ms.
Davis leveraged her high level access to fortune 500 corporate
advertisers with her extensive relationships as a team leader to produce
a trend setting live performance music video program called Video Zone
which was based in New York City. This one hour weekly television
program targeted the lucrative urban youth market. Ms. Davis secured the
national distribution of the program on NBC and negotiated the program’s
Multi-Million dollar sponsorship deal with Heineken USA.
Bonnie L. Franklin, Co-Founder
Bonnie has a powerful and innovative vision for business growth. She has extensive experience in
the business world,
in the telecommunications, online retail, and entertainment industries.
Mrs. Franklin moved to the Los Angeles area from Northern Virginia in
March 2001 to pursue her passion for filmmmaking as a producer and
screenwriter. Since that time, she has worked at major film studios:
20th Century Fox, Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal, MGM, Lions Gate,
and several studio-based production companies. In the past 14 years, she
has owned and operated three successful online businesses, while
maintaining full-time employment. With a Master’s Degree in Business
Administration from Averett University and Bachelor’s Degree in
English Literature/Concentration in Fiction Writing from the University
of Virginia, Bonnie brings a creative and business mind. She has been a highly rated
Better Business Bureau Member since 2003, having founded a
successful screenwriting consulting firm to improve the quality of the
film and television content seen by the next generations.
Robin McDougal, Educator
Robin is a certified educator and founder of Educators 2.0, Inc. is an
advocacy organization that promotes tech savvy educators using science,
math and technology to lead World Class Schools. An Educator for over 25
years, she designs curriculum and instruction for learners from all
communities and age groups. As a certified Advanced Academic Specialist,
Mrs. McDougal has conducted space flight simulations, developed critical
thinking and problem solving curriculum for Challenger Center for Space
Science Education, conducts trainings for clients for National
Geographic JASON Project and TCI, a Washington, DC based Training
Corporation. As senior executive for an international education
association boasting over 150,000 members worldwide, she was director of
Annual Conference education content that spotlighted forward thinking
skills and techniques which ultimately impacted the course of global
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