08/10/2026
Join us August 22 at 4pm to hear from these amazing women!
Nicole Paradis Grindle joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1995 as producer of the “Toy Story Activity Center” interactive computer game. Since then, she has played various production management and producer roles on many of Pixar’s feature films, including “A Bug’s Life,” “Monsters, Inc.,” “Monsters University,” and Academy Award®-winning films “The Incredibles,” “Ratatouille” and “Toy Story 3.” She more recently produced the feature film “Incredibles 2,” which grossed over $1.2 billion in global box office. Grindle most recently produced Pixar’s feature film “Hoppers,” released in March, 2026, a critical success as Pixar’s most recent original film. In 2015, Grindle produced the short film “Sanjay’s Super Team,” for which she was nominated for an Academy Award®. In 2014, Grindle partnered with Pixar colleague Mary Coleman to create a mentoring program for potential women directors, which bore fruit with the premiere of director Domee Shi’s Academy Award®-winning short film “Bao.” Grindle graduated from The University of Pennsylvania and holds a Master of Arts degree in Documentary Film from Stanford University. She currently resides in San Francisco, CA, where she and her husband raised a son and a daughter.
Beth Albright has worked in animation since Space Jam (1996). She joined Pixar Animation Studios in 2009 as a character shading and groom artist, contributing to Toy Story 3, Brave, Monsters University, Finding Dory, Coco, and Incredibles 2. She became Pixar’s first female character supervisor on Luca and most recently served as the Visual Effects Supervisor for Hoppers. Albright blends technical expertise with artistic sensibility, leading cross-disciplinary teams to realize a director’s vision. She holds a BFA from the University of Notre Dame and an MFA from The Ohio State University, and lives in Oakland, CA.
