So how does Marvel scout for talent, how do you find these new, diverse voices to help you tell diverse stories?

SA: It's hard. The reality is, no one is sending me a picture of themselves when they're sending in a pitch. You can't be like, "Oh are you a POC, or a woman?" We don't necessarily want to think in those terms, we want the person's work to speak for itself. That being said, now that we have more opportunities to engage with potential or new creators, our eyes are always open. I'm not gonna pretend I'm not looking for more female voices, I am. I am actively doing that, I am actively trying to get more minorities, talent that I feel have fresh, new voices, working with us as much as I feasibly can. But it's difficult right? You have to be able to sort of wade through who is good, who needs help, and who might just not be there yet. A lot of it is, you know, the Women Of Marvel panels and now that we have the podcast, it's a really good platform to start engaging with those audiences a lot more. I know it's a little bit deceiving because we say Women Of Marvel, but it's much more than the women, it's a celebration of diversity, it's a safe haven for those diverse voices and those potential new voices that can come at Marvel. That's where I meet a lot of people. I think Marguerite, I met you at the tail end of a panel at NYCC and Kelly Sue introduced us?

MB: Yeah I think so!

SA: Yeah, so it's a lot of that. The industry as much as it's growing, is insular in the sense that once you get to know one person you get to know another person, etc etc. For example, we just announced the Captain Marvel And The Carol Corps series, which is super exciting! The idea we've been talking about in all these Women In Marvel panels about you know, connecting with one another and working together in order to get your first gig in comics, and bringing in Kelly Thompson as a co-writer is really the epitome of that. It's Kelly Sue DeConnick sort of passing the baton to this newer writer, working together on The Carol Corps; it's all sort of coming together in that series.

The opportunity really began with us sitting down and talking to somebody who knows someone, who knows another person. Networking, that support system is very important. That's something we're really trying to continue to do no matter how big of a company we get. That's something with us as editors, that's something that we will always make an attempt to do.