For the first eight years of my SAG-AFTRA membership, I paid my dues so I could work union jobs. I didn’t take advantage of all the ways it could have saved me money, made me a better artist, provided me with resources to bring passion projects to life, helped build meaningful relationships with other actors, or help me grow my profile as a personality in our industry because I just wasn’t aware of the opportunities.
That all changed two years ago when I got more involved. Today, I volunteer on a number of initiatives, including member education in Los Angeles, as a committee member and head of the commercial department for the SAG-AFTRA L.A. Conservatory, supporting the commercials organizing and recapture initiative to bring non-union commercials under union contracts, working to make casting director Workshops a service provided by our union, and bringing other entertainment unions together with ours in creative fellowship and solidarity, like with the WGA to do regular joint table reads, bringing skilled professional writers and actors together in amazing collaboration.
I have only one goal with all my union participation: to make our union membership as tangibly valuable as possible.
I want every
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