MARIE CLAIRE'S 6TH ANNUAL NEW GUARD

Over half a million travelers in more than 18 major global cities have signed up for experiences through Peek, which also provides booking tech for excursion companies. Bashir recently announced a partnership with Google, meaning we’ll see Peek’s food tours, DJ lessons, and waterfall hikes on Google’s Search, Maps, and Trips functions. Fun fact: Bashir was the second Asian female president of Oxford University’s debate society. (Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was first.)

Make history? Oh, yes, she did. The in-demand auteur was the first African-American woman to direct a film that had a $100-million-plus budget and grossed over $100 million (A Wrinkle in Time). Now on her to-do list: directing the DC Comics movie The New Gods, another $100-million-plus project, and producing and/or directing a series about the Central Park Five for Netflix, a CBS racial-crime drama, and a comedy based on Colin Kaepernick’s life. Just one Q: When can we expect that Rihanna/Lupita/Issa project?

Nearly every year since 2012, the notoriously private Ellison has had at least one of her production house’s films nominated for a best-picture Oscar, including Her, American Hustle, and, most recently, 2017’s Phantom Thread. Next year, the mogul is slated to produce Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut, Booksmart.

The former deputy communications director for NYC comptroller Scott Stringer, who grew up with Lena Dunham and was reportedly the inspiration for Girls’s Marnie Michaels, opened the Wing in New York in 2016. Now, the women’s-focused, Instagram-bait social club/coworking space is also in D.C. and San Francisco, and its signature blush-pink scheme and color-coordinated libraries will soon take flight in L.A., Seattle, London, and Toronto.

If you did (screen) time at Litchfield Penitentiary and obsessed over Eleven, thank Holland, who oversaw development of a slate of Netflix’s acclaimed, highly bingeable shows, from House of Cards to Orange Is the New Black to Stranger Things. She’s nailed exclusive contracts with Shonda Rhimes, Ryan Murphy, Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, and, oh, the Obamas. Netflix’s 130 million subscribers can’t be wrong.

Four years after she dominated ABC’s Thursday-night lineup, Rhimes and her venture Shondaland have conquered the entertainment world. She signed a $150 million deal with Netflix this summer and is working on two series, one based on grifter Anna Delvey and another based on Ellen Pao’s tale of sexism in tech, Reset; a documentary on choreographer Debbie Allen; and an adaptation of The Warmth of Other Suns, an award-winning book about black migration to the North. In other words, is there anything Rhimes can’t do?

Salke, who left her role as president of NBC Entertainment (where she shepherded This Is Us) to run Amazon Studios in February, has wasted no time. She’s locked in contracts with Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele and Lena Waithe, as well as the rights to Pulitzer Prize–winning author Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.

You may have never heard of Max & Harvey and Raegan Beast, but hundreds of thousands of rabid Gen-Z fans have. Valiando Rojas’s music-festival company, backed by Ryan Seacrest and Madonna’s manager, Guy Oseary, makes top vocal talent from YouTube and Music.ly even bigger via concerts. Her experience working with digital influencers helped inform her first book, Selfie Made: The Ultimate Guide to Social Media Stardom, out last month.