In 2022, producer Janet Yang was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization’s Board of Governors.  A member of the Academy’s Producers Branch since 2002, Yang most recently served on the Board as vice president and chair of the Membership Committee, and before that, the Membership and Governance Committee.  She is also co-chair of the Academy’s Asian Affinity Group. Yang’s extensive film producing credits include The Joy Luck Club, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Zero Effect, High Crimes, Dark Matter, Shanghai Calling, and the Oscar-nominated animated feature Over the Moon.  She won an Emmy for the HBO film Indictment: The McMartin Trial.