AFVS Alumni Gatherings: Agnes Chu

The Carpenter Center is pleased to present a new series of Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) Alumni professional practice gatherings in our level-3 contemporary art galleries. These intimate, public conversations will bring together AFVS and Harvard students to engage directly with distinguished alumni from the department.

The student-focused series—supported by the Provostial Grant for Critical Humanities at Harvard and the Mignone Center for Career Success—will center on questions of professional practice, interdisciplinary trajectories, and life after the AFVS program. The gatherings aim to foster dialogue between current students and alumni who are shaping the field in diverse and innovative ways.

These sessions are free and open to the public, with priority given to Harvard students. Refreshments will be offered. To RSVP, please email us at [email protected].

Agnes Chu (VES '02) builds lasting brands through the power of storytelling. As a 20+ year executive in the entertainment industry, Agnes has a prescient eye for identifying talent, cultural trends and transformative businesses that connect multigenerational audiences with enduring creativity. At The Walt Disney Company, Agnes led the content launch of Disney+, the fastest growing streaming service in media history with a $1 billion content budget including brand-defining series Star Wars’ The Mandalorian and Marvel Studios’ Wandavision. At Condé Nast Entertainment as President, she founded a film, television, and audio arm around iconic publishing brands The New Yorker, Vogue, and Vanity Fair, garnering 9 Academy Award nominations. Her digital video content strategy, including for Vogue’s Met Gala, cemented Conde Nast brands’ cultural authority on every social media platform, generating 20B video views in 2023. Starting her career as a feature film, documentary, and music video producer, Agnes served as Bob Iger’s Chief of Staff (2013-2016) at Disney and as a network executive in daytime and primetime programming at ABC Television. An executive branch member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she holds an A.B. from Harvard University, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Feature Credits:

• Producer, Bucking Fastard (2026)
• Dir: Werner Herzog Executive Producer, High and Low: John Galliano (2023)
• MUBI Producer, Spiderhead (2022), Netflix

Television Credits:

• Executive Producer, Breath of Fire (2024)
• HBO Executive Producer, In Vogue: The 90s (2024)
• Disney+ Executive Producer, Black Twitter: A People’s History (2024)
• HULU Executive Producer, The Secrets of Hillsong (2023)
• Max Associate Producer , Martin Scorsese presents: THE BLUES (2003), PBS