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WINTER 2023 17 T H E C L I M B member, and she was active in the Writers Guild of America's Committee of Black Writers, LGBTQ+ Writers Committee, and Latinx Writers Committee. She is on the steering committee for the Think Tank for Inclusion & Equity, and she also founded and chairs TAG's POC Writers Subcommittee with co-chair Nick "Rocket" Rodriguez. The goal of the committee is for members to help each other with information, advice, and resources so that hopefully they can all become story editors and showrunners. Valle says the group also strives to "help bring up other people who look like us or maybe don't look like us but who have been on the sidelines for a long time." It's an important part of Valle's life and career as a writer not to be "the only one," she says. "Part of the legacy I want to leave is that I want people who haven't seen themselves as the hero onscreen to be able to see themselves now. More of us need to have a voice and have a say." – Evan Henerson below, clockwise from top: Table read for Valle's first Elena of Avalor episode to air, "Prince Too Charming"; Valle's graduation from Rutgers Law School–Newark with her mother who passed away earlier this year; Think Tank for Inclusion & Equity (TTIE) special picket at Disney with Tawal Panyacosit Jr. and Brusta Brown; TAG POC Writers Subcommittee mixer; Disney name badge Valle received after starting on Elena of Avalor; Characters from Mech Cadets; Character Amara from Elena of Avalor is based on Valle's niece, Amara; (center) Mini Mech Cadets reunion on the Disney picket lines with Head Writer/EP Aaron Lam and writer David Shayne.