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Lots of stars stepped out to join fashion brand Brunello Cucinelli at ‘Una Serata Italiana’ (an Italian evening), an event hosted by the Cucinelli family.

Chris Pine, Luke Macfarlane, and more were in attendance for the soiree on Thursday evening (December 8) at a private residence in Los Angeles.

While enjoying cocktails such as negronis and Campari spritzes, and hors d’oeuvres, guests were treated to a DJ set by Myles Hendrik.

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Charlize Theron, Issa Rae, and Margot Robbie were among the many stars who stepped out for The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Breakfast Gala!

Many stars walked the red carpet for the annual event on Wednesday morning (December 7) at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

The annual breakfast coincided with the publication of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Power 100 Women in Entertainment list, and celebrated the accomplishments of entertainment leaders and changemakers in Hollywood.

Charlize was honored with the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award and Issa was recognized with the Equity in Entertainment Award.

Seth Rogen presented the award to Charlize and she said in her acceptance speech, “I take this leadership award less as a mark of accomplishment, but more as a challenge to keep doing the work. I want us to keep each other accountable, use each other as resources and push each other to keep using our voices and platforms for something greater than ourselves.”

Issa‘s Insecure co-star Yvonne Orji presented the award to her and said, “There are a few things you can bet that Issa Rae will always do…But what stands out most for me, is her unfailing support of the marginalized, her extreme selflessness, her dogged belief that everyone can win and people of color should have the same opportunity to fail and be given another chance at success—because that’s true equality.”

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Mandana Dayani, the founder of the “I am a voter.” campaign, has landed an exciting new position working with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry!

The fashion and tech executive will be the first COO of the couple’s organization Archewell.

Fortune reports that Mandana will “oversee growth strategy and day-to-day operations at the organization, which includes the nonprofit Archewell Foundation as well as the media businesses Archewell Audio and Archewell Productions.”

Mandana already has experience in podcasting thanks to her The Dissenters podcast, which she launched last year with friend Debra Messing.

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Debra Messing and Mandana Dayani have a new podcast launching this week – The Dissenters!

The longtime friends teamed up for the new project in which they speak to one of their heroes each week. The name for the podcast was inspired by Ruth Bader Ginsburg‘s iconic “I Dissent” slogan. The idea of dissent is saying “No, I will not have this. There is a better way and I am here to build it.”

Each of the 20 Dissenters featured on the podcast just made the decision one day to dissent: to challenge the status quo, stand up to an injustice or make a tremendous difference in their communities. Some of the special guests include Hillary Clinton, Jane Fonda, Sophia Bush, Eva Longoria, Jameela Jamil, Christian Siriano, and more.

“We’re both nerds, we’re very much into activism and organizing and we realized all of these people that re inspiring us, we wanted to share with other people. we wanted to meet our heroes,” Debra told Deadline. Mandana added, “We have both worked as social justice advocates. There are so many people that want to get off the sidelines and give back, but they either feel like activism is something that other people do, they’re not qualified or they don’t have enough followers. But the more we learned was that most of these people had any prior experience.”

Debra is an actor and philanthropist, best known for her work on Will & Grace. Mandana is an entrepreneur, attorney and the creator/co-founder of I am a voter. The podcast is produced by the Dear Media podcast network.

You can subscribe to The Dissenters podcast right now on Apple Podcasts. New episodes will be released weekly on Thursdays!

Actress and activist Sophia Bush poses for photos in her plaid power suit while attending a celebration of her new podcast “Work in Progress” at The AllBright West Hollywood on Wednesday (February 5) in Los Angeles.

The new private women’s social club was the perfect setting for Sophia‘s dinner party with some of the powerful women in her life – like actresses Connie Britton and Retta, I Am a Voter founder Mandana Dayani, CNN’s former White House correspondent Jessica Yellin, and more.

Sophia‘s podcast “highlights real-life humor, professional, personal and sometimes even political conversations where guests share inspiration for growth, success, failure and achievable goals.”

FYI: Sophia is wearing a Dorothee Schumacher outfit.

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Jordana Brewster, Amber Heard, Ashley Madekwe, and Sophia Bush pose for a photo with gun control activist Shannon Watts at the launch of her book “Fight Like a Mother” on Monday (June 10) at a private home in Brentwood, Calif.

The stars all stepped out to support the Moms Demand Action founder and volunteer at the home of fashion designer Mary Alice Haney Davidoff.

Jaime King, Brooklyn Decker, Kendrick Sampson, June Diane Raphael, AnnaLynne McCord, cute couple Lyndsy Fonseca and Noah Bean, PR exec Sahar Sanjar, and I Am a Voter founder Mandana Dayani were among the other guests at the event.

Shannon talked with THR at the event about the recent successes of Moms Demand Action.

“Bills were just sailing through state houses that were just so dangerous and so insidious that the gun lobby had been writing for years and we now have a 90 percent track record of killing those bills every year. We killed over 1,000 last year. Guns on college campuses, arming teachers, permitless carry, stand your ground,” she said.

“Fight Like a Mother” is currently available on Amazon and wherever books are sold!

Amber Heard poses for a photo with I Am a Voter founder Mandana Dayani while attending the Create & Cultivate conference on Saturday (May 4) in New York City.

The event, presented by Mastercard, brings women together to discuss key topics surrounding entrepreneurship, the digital space, and life as a modern working woman.

I Am a Voter is a public awareness campaign that aims to create a cultural shift around voting and civic engagement. At the event, Amber opened up about being “a part of a vast army of voices that are not accepting silence.”

“The world that’s better for someone else is going to be an inherently better world for you,” she said.

She added, “Only the people who benefit from the status quo don’t want to change it.”

FYI: Amber is wearing a Johanna Ortiz look.