Biographie
Yulin Olliver (she/her) joined Wasserman in 2019 and is an agent in the Action Sports group. With a commitment to elevating and empowering Black, women, and gender non-conforming skateboarders, snowboarders and surfers to experience extraordinary careers, Olliver represents Olympians, young phemons and legends including back-to-back SLS world champion and legend Leo Baker (they/them), Olympian and two-time X Games gold medalist Mariah Duran (she/her), pro skater Jenn Soto (she/her), and Olympian Bryce Wettstein (she/her).
Prior to Wasserman, Olliver founded her own agency, Yunexis, in 2014 and was committed to identifying and managing emerging talent in women's professional skateboarding. In December 2018, she also co-founded and launched the first-ever Skate Exchange event in Japan showcasing the top womxn skateboarders in the world gathering for the first time to visit the host city, Tokyo, with the intention of creating community, empowerment, and public interest prior to the 2020 Olympic Games.
In addition to serving as an agent to her clients, Olliver also co-produces story-driven, documentary style sports content. She executive produced and self-distributed 'Gorging' and contributes to Red Bull Media House's 'Out of Frame' series, the new Leo Baker documentary produced by Drew Barrymore's Flower Films and a new women's skateboarding documentary with award-winning director Jessica Edwards. Olliver is also the executive producing and developing 'Fabric', a unique 5-part docuseries that chronicles the stories of a professional womxn athletes, artists, and advocates for whom sport is the vehicle, not the destination. Look for her latest doc short called "Mariah Duran's Olympic Debut", an Outside Magazine Originals.
in 2021, Olliver was executive producer for Fabric. Fabric is a documentary series that chronicles the stories of a group of athletes, artists, and advocates for whom sport is the vehicle, not the destination. A first-of-its-kind documentary series chronicling the lives of an elite group of female athletes, artists, and activists across snowboarding, surfing, and skateboarding, Fabric is the story of connection to place, people, and pursuit.
In five episodes centered on the topics of Knowledge, Connection, Activism, Cultural Heritage, and Community, this group of groundbreaking women use sport as the vehicle, not the destination, and purpose as the fabric that binds them. The brainchild of Canadian big-mountain snowboarder Robin Van Gyn -- star of such films as Travis Rice's Depth Perception and Full Moon Film -- Fabric sets out to break tradition in the action sports filmmaking by making its own -- through narrative, world-class action footage, and candid insights into real-world issues.
The series stars long list of influential women, including but not limited to, Paige Alms, Izzi Gomez, Leah Dawson, Sanoa Olin, Textured Waves, Mainei Kinimaka and Hanna Scott in surf; Estelle Pensiero, Robin Van Gyn, Jessa Gilbert, Marie France Roy, Irie Smith, Spencer O'Brien, Leanne Pelosi in Snow; and Kristen Ebeling, Juliette Pelchat, and Hannah Eddy in Skate. Debuting fall 2021, Fabric captures a level of talent, athleticism, and grit seldom seen in men's or women's action sports, and highlights the ways in which individual experiences are more connective than we can ever imagine.
Once a semi-professional snowboarder, Olliver moved to Los Angeles and received her MBA at Pepperdine University. She built her business after the success of launching the Street League Skateboarding brand in 2010 with serial entrepreneur Rob Dyrdek and creating both the Event Marketing and Snow Partnership programs at Fox Sports/FUEL TV.
Olliver is a proud Bostonian and enjoys hiking in the backcountry with her snowboard, pit bulls and family. She resides in Los Angeles and calls Mt Hood, Big Bear and Brighton Resort her home mountains.
