The wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom touted her latest documentary film about AI and sexism — as she faces criticism over her powerful husband’s hand in financing her activist pet projects.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom said her upcoming documentary, “Miss Representation: Rise Up,” explores “tech-facilitated violence” such as AI and deepfakes that exacerbate sexism and misogyny, according to an Instagram post shared Tuesday.
“Today I had the privilege of attending the Maker’s Circle Summit in Santa Barbara, where I showed a sneak peek 10 min segment of my upcoming documentary, Miss Representation: Rise Up,” Siebel Newsom boasted.
“It was an honor to preview the film clip in a room full of incredibly talented women who are committed to a better, safer, and more equitable world both on and offline.”
The details of the new doc come after The Post revealed that Newsom’s education department promoted Siebel Newsom’s gender-obsessed films in struggling California public schools, where a shocking proportion of students are unable to read or do math at grade level.
Siebel Newsom draws a $150,000 annual salary from her nonprofit behind the activist films, The Representation Project, according to tax filings.
In addition, she earns about $150,000 more per year from her for-profit film company, Girls Club Entertainment LLC — which is the largest independent contractor of The Representation Project.
Her films and “curricula” exploring themes such as toxic masculinity and gender identity have been used in at least 1,000 California schools and more than 5,000 schools nationwide, her nonprofit boasted in tax filings.
“Given the Newsoms’ pattern of intertwining personal and official dealings, it’s no surprise Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s nonprofit is under fire for apparent conflicts of interest,” said Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust.
“The Newsoms continue to launder their progressive ideas through their various nonprofit associations and in turn use the Governor’s Office as a conduit for supplementary income. Taxpayers deserve accountability and transparency for how their dollars are being spent to enrich the governor and his wife.”
Newsom exploited a loophole, known as “behested payments,” to fund Siebel Newsom’s other gender-focused charity, the California Partners Project.
“Behested payments” allow elected officials to steer money to favored nonprofits by requesting that corporations or other special interests donate the money directly, at their “behest.”
The Post’s reporting revealed that Newsom steered $4.4 million to the California Partners Project from donors such as Silicon Valley Bank ($100,000), the wealthy Pritzker family (almost $572,000), the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and San Manuel Band of Mission Indians ($1.9 million combined), Blue Shield of California Foundation ($50,000) and New Venture Fund ($100,000).
Some of those donors benefited from decisions Newsom made as governor, such as a no-bid contract he awarded to Blue Shield during the pandemic.
Newsom’s office denied that the donations to his wife’s nonprofit had any role in his decision-making.
The governor’s “decisions are based solely on serving the best interests of all Californians,” said a spokesperson.
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