
shikha jha
product manager in los angeles, she/her/hers
About
product manager at The Walt Disney Studios, with prior consulting experience at Accenture within their West Media group. graduate from Amherst College with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Five College Certificate in Culture, Health & Science.
avid consumer of Marvel movies, long-form video game analyses, and extremely niche TikTok memes.
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Work Experience
- lead product strategy and development for an application that manages cinematic canon across Studio banners — empowering creatives as they develop future storylines across major Disney franchises.
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co-led the larger Walt Disney Studios' StudioLAB team at Accenture, managing various tasks including: continuation of my role as Product Owner/QA Analyst for a product that manages cinematic canon for Studio banners, oversight on an AI/ML project regarding procedural image generation for pre-production processes, marketing for Accenture to showcase the innovation projects developed in collaboration with StudioLAB, company activations at CES 2024 and SXSW 2024, and the development of new talent for the West Media account through our Analyst Rotational Program.
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co-led the Disney Product CoE, which hosts monthly events that improved Product-related capabilities within the Disney and West Media account.
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co-led the larger SoCAT group across four committees (Social, Recruitment & Integration, Community Service, & Professional Development), fostering community among local analysts and senior analysts during monthly events and local office initiatives.
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served as Product Owner and QA Analyst for a product that manages cinematic canon for Studio banners and stakeholders, providing leadership and oversight across design and development teams
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joined the Walt Disney Studios' StudioLAB team as an Analyst on the Analyst Rotational Program, supporting program leads on various project and management tasks
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co-led the Professional Development committee for the local analyst engagement group, hosting 1-2 events per month that shared resources and tips on advancing career trajectories for analysts and senior analysts in the Southern California offices
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served as the representative for the Asian Students Association, meeting with President Biddy Martin on a weekly basis to discuss campus policy and working towards a more inclusive administration
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met with various administrators, such as Deans of Admission and the Board of Trustees, to communicate student opinions on topics including the hidden costs of attendance, inclusive recruiting focusing on Native and Indigenous students, disarming the campus police, academic policy reform, and prioritizing the mental health of the student body
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led and directed the student-run hip-hop dance team, and created the theme and programming for the weekend showcase each semester that consistently drew 200-300 people each night
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choreographed and taught a dance each semester, and monitored other choreographers to ensure they fit the artistic vision for the semester as well as observed dancers to ensure timelines and deadlines were met
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prioritized education on the styles of dance of the Black community and the larger Black diaspora, and showcased these styles to help foster representation of the Black community on campus
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conducted public health research on stress, discrimination, mental health, and the workplace environment pertaining to people of color which was presented at the CDC during their CUPS Program Showcase
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worked as a intern with A Community of Friends (ACOF), an organization in Los Angeles that provides permanent supportive housing to the local unhoused population
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presented on disability rights and mental health to the UCLAPH Scholars Cohort, and facilitated a panel with mental health professionals
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assisted in research on healthcare accessibility and costs pertaining to neuropsychiatric diagnoses to support the creation and implementation of Sphere, a mental health alternative that bypasses current insurance pricing and provides individual and group therapy plans to employers at a reduced cost
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networked with various DPC and telehealth providers to gain insight on increasing accessibility, and assisted with the creation of a pitch deck used to request funding from MindMed and its investors
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researched alternative therapies for opioid addiction, with a particular focus on ibogaine and LSD as viable treatments, and met with various researchers and patients to catalog their experiences with these therapies
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worked with another research intern to compile all accessible information on the development of NAD+ and its potential as a treatment for addiction, citing work from Abram Hoffer and Joseph Goldberger as well as other figures historically related to the research of NAD+ and niacinamide
Education
Awards
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aided in preparation for a pilot study exploring the hostile attribution bias with children aged 4-5, and currently run and code trials for further analysis
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assisted with a study investigating how 3-year-old children react to a “broken human” telling them incorrect information to understand how they form assumptions about sources of information
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ran trials over Zoom assessing whether children relied on appearance when establishing trust, manipulating facial features and seeing how it affected children aged 4-5 in determining trustworthiness