RHIAN MOORE

Head of Programs | CAPE

Rhian Moore is the Head of Programs at CAPE, where she oversees pathway programs that champion Asian American and Pacific Islander diversity in entertainment such as the CAPE New Writers Fellowship and the CAPE Leaders Fellowship. Since joining in January 2021, she has helped launch the CAPE Animation Directors Accelerator, CAPE Showrunners Incubator, CAPE Emerging Executives Committee, and Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge in partnership with Janet Yang Productions.

Rhian is a second generation Burmese American from the San Gabriel Valley and graduated from Pomona College with a Bachelor of Arts in Music, completing her undergraduate thesis on Burmese music in diaspora. Her experience also includes a Fulbright Award in Ipoh, Malaysia, during which she obtained a United States Embassy grant to host a statewide English camp centered around music education and performance for secondary school students. Rhian has most recently worked at grassroots nonprofit organizations such as VietRISE in Orange County and the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative in the Bay Area to promote Asian American political representation in the 2020 Census and Election.