Malik Ducard ’91
As a child growing up in the Bronx, Ducard loved football, baseball, and board games. But storytelling was his true passion. As a teen, he was selected to attend Pomfret by A Better Chance Program, a non-profit that finds and places high-performing students of color in top schools. On the Hilltop, he remembers spending countless hours lugging around film equipment, all the while learning how to tell stories through the lens of a camera.
After graduating from Pomfret in 1991, Ducard went on to earn a BA in Film and African American Studies from Columbia and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. After a brief stint as an account executive with the New York-based marketing firm Young & Rubicam, Ducard took a job on the West Coast at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in the home entertainment acquisitions and business development division. Later, he worked at Lions Gate Entertainment, before eventually moving to Paramount Pictures as the senior vice president of digital distribution.
In 2011, Ducard left Paramount to join YouTube. During his decade with the company, he served as the global head of family and learning and the vice president of content partnerships. Then, in November 2021, Ducard was named Pinterest’s first chief content officer. Since taking the reins, he has worked tirelessly to make the image-sharing juggernaut a force for social good.