Anita Schillhorn is Director of Strategy at McKinney, where she has led strategy Blue Diamond, Choice Hotels, Columbia, and Samsung, and manages the growth and culture for the Los Angeles office. She has worked at agencies in New York and Los Angeles including Grey, Havas, TBWA Chiat/Day, and Digitas, and also run her own consultancy servicing brands and agencies. She shares thought leadership and mentorship through various channels, including serving on the lead team of Ladies Who Strategize, a global online community of women in strategy; mentoring start-ups at the UCLA Venture Accelerator; writing about culture and marketing at her newsletter, Framing; and occasionally volunteering as a tutor at 826LA’s center for creativity. Throughout her career, Anita has been an advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion.

At Chiat, she began the Women’s Initiative, a diverse group of women in the Los Angeles office. She is a member of McKinney’s Agents of Change EDI committee. Prior to the ad industry, she worked in non-profits like the Asian Arts Initiative where she produced cultural events by and for the Asian American community, and the Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians where she advocated for immigrant communities. She also produced documentary films, including a short about the Indonesian diaspora in Philadelphia, and a feature about an abortion doctor who serves in countries where abortion is illegal.

She has her Master’s in communications from Temple University, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude, and is pursuing her Executive MBA at UCLA.