Biography
Mimi Valdés is an American film and television producer. She began her career in journalism, serving as editor-in-chief of Vibe magazine and later Latina magazine.
She is chief creative officer at i am OTHER, the multimedia company founded by Pharrell Williams, where she oversees film and television projects. Valdés has produced or executive produced Dope (2015), Hidden Figures (2016), Roxanne Roxanne (2017), North Hollywood (2021), Swan Song (2021), Carmen (2022), Harlem (2021–) and Piece by Piece (2024). In 2023 she co-founded the production company Fly Green Socks with Nina Yang Bongiovi.
She won a Primetime Emmy Award as executive producer of the 2020 HBO documentary We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest.
