Another Oscar winner, Wall•E, was Feinberg’s first movie directing the lighting in her role as Director of Photography for Lighting. It was heaven for someone whose greatest inspiration is using technology to make art. She went on to oversee the lighting on two more Oscar-winning films, Brave (featuring Pixar’s first film with a girl as the main character) and Coco, celebrating the Mexican holiday, Día de los Muertos. For her next film, Turning Red, Feinberg took on the role of Visual Effects Supervisor. She was the first woman in 20 years to hold this position at Pixar, using both her technical chops and her aesthetic skills, to help push the film to new places. (With three women rising to the same role on subsequent films!)

Feinberg gives talks around the world about the challenges behind bringing Pixar films to the screen as well as her own life experiences. She also gives talks to girls of all ages, encouraging them to pursue code, math and science by showing them the magic found in combining art and technology to create movies. In 2016, she was able to bring that message to a broader audience with her TED talk that was part of the PBS “Science and Wonder” presentation for TED Talks Live. It was named one of the top TED talks of 2016.