Cheryl Boone Isaacs is the Founding Director of The Sidney Poitier New American Film School at Arizona State University, leading the School in Arizona (Tempe Campus and the MIX Center in downtown Mesa) and ASU California Centers Broadway and Grand. She is a past president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences serving 24 years as a board member, and holding all officer positions; also serving as President of the Academy Foundation.
As President and CEO of CBI Enterprises, Inc. Boone Isaacs has consulted for companies such as MTV Films, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Lionsgate and Sony Entertainment. She previously served as president of theatrical marketing for New Line Cinema and was executive vice president of worldwide publicity for Paramount Pictures.
Boone Isaacs has been an adjunct professor at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, as well as at the USC Cinema and Television, Columbia College Chicago, and Mount Saint Mary’s College. She has been a guest lecturer at USC, UCLA, Harvard’s Kennedy School, Loyola Marymount, Dubai International Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Singapore Film Festival and Korea’s Busan International Film Festival.
She has an Honorary Doctorate from Chapman University Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. From 2013 through 2016, Boone Isaacs served as Chair of District 16, Rhodes scholarship selection committee. Boone Isaacs was inducted into the NAACP Hall of Fame and a Trustee Emeritus of AFI Board of Trustees.