Anita Hill to head up Hollywood's new anti-harassment efforts

The idea for the group—formally known as the Commission On Sexual Harassment And Advancing Equality In The Workplace—was put forward by some of the biggest names in the industry, including The Nike Foundation’s Maria Eitel, attorney Nina Shaw, and Kathleen Kennedy, the LucasArts president whose shepherding of the Star Wars franchise has made her one of the most powerful people in Hollywood, period. The commission—which will also feature contributions from various bigwigs like Bob Iger and Ted Sarandos—says its goal is to “tackle the broad culture of abuse and power disparity.” It’ll reportedly reconvene early next year, in order to begin developing a broad array of strategies to reinvent a system that’s shown itself to suffer from a systemic susceptibility to abuses of power in recent months.