Ligiah Villalobos

Ligiah Villalobos is a writer, producer, consultant, educator and lecturer. She wrote and executive produce the indie film Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna) which was acquired by Fox Searchlight and The Weinstein Company at the Sundance Film Festival. Villalobos has developed projects and written on TV series for multiple American studios, networks, and streaming services, including ABC, NBC, F/X, Showtime, HBO Max, Neflix and STARZ. She was a Cultural Consultant on the Academy Award winning Pixar movie, COCO and she is the recipient of the Humanitas Prize for writing. Currently, Villalobos is a writer on the animated series Rosie’s Rules and she is Executive Producing 20 animated shorts for Dreamworks TV Animation. The animated feature film Koati, which she co-wrote and is associate producer on, was released in theatres on October 15, 2021.