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On March 31, 2014, she made history as the First trans person to speak about transgender issues at the iconic TED Conference main stage. In August 2019, she made history as the First trans Asian Playboy Playmate. Her Playboy article is nominated for a 2020 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Article. She made history as the First Trans woman 2020 Playboy Playmates of the Year. She made history as the first trans woman Ambassador for Miss Universe Nepal, an honor that’s been bestowed to her as part of the Miss Universe Organization pageant system accepting trans women into the competition. Bajaria has been honored by the “I Have a Dream” Foundation of LA, The March of Dimes Foundation, and was given the Industry Leadership Award from the LA Indian Film Festival. She currently serves on the LA Board of Governors for the Paley Center and the Board of LA’s Saban Community Clinic she was honored with its Lenny Somberg Award in 2018. Earlier, she held two key posts simultaneously: Senior Vice President, Cable Programming for CBS TV Studios, and Senior Vice President of Movies and Miniseries for CBS Network.īajaria has been honored by THR’s Women in Entertainment list, Variety’s LA Women’s Impact Report, and named one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in 2020. There she shepherded creative programming including the Emmy-nominated Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, as well as hit primetime broadcast series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mindy Project, and Chicago Fire. Previously, Bajaria was President of Universal Television, where she made history as the first woman of color to oversee a studio. Bajaria also oversaw some scripted originals such as the hit series Never Have I Ever and YOU.

Previously, she oversaw local language originals, managing the teams behind shows such as La Casa de Papel (Spain), The Witcher (Poland), Lupin (France), Dark Desire (Mexico), Sacred Games (India), Kingdom (Korea), Blood & Water (South Africa), and Sintonia (Brazil).īajaria joined Netflix in November 2016 to oversee Netflix’s push into unscripted programming including the critically acclaimed Queer Eye, Nailed It!, and Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, as well as talk series with David Letterman and Hasan Minhaj. Bajaria leads the team for all of television, responsible for hit series including Bridgerton, The Queen’s Gambit, Lupin, and Cobra Kai. Bela Bajaria was named Head of Global TV in 2020, overseeing English language and local language scripted and unscripted series around the world.

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