Creative executive. Strategy leader. Partnership builder.

Anna-Kay Thomas is a creative executive with 13+ years of experience spanning unscripted television, digital media, and communications strategy. She currently directs media and impact partnerships at the Mental Health Storytelling Initiative (MHSI), connecting entertainment, media, and philanthropy to drive real-world impact.

She has developed and produced series including The Great American Baking Show (ROKU) and Ladies Who List: Atlanta (OWN), along with projects for Amazon, A+E Networks, NBCUniversal, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Condé Nast brands like Vogue and GQ. At Love Productions (The Great British Bake Off), she adapted global formats for U.S. audiences and created original concepts across reality, competition, sports, and social experiment.

Her career began in New York in private wealth management, where she directed communications strategy for a $2B-AUM advisory firm, before a VH1 hosting competition opened the door to on-camera work with Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter. She moved to Los Angeles to help launch STEVE, Steve Harvey’s Emmy-nominated daytime talk show.

As the only child of a hardworking single mother, Anna-Kay is proud to be a first-generation Ivy League graduate of Dartmouth College, where she studied Neuroscience. She is now pursuing her Executive MBA at UCLA Anderson.

Anna-Kay has been featured in a number of publications including Vogue and HuffPost.