Candidate Statement

National Board incumbent. Committees: Executive, Sound Recordings Standing, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Honors and Tributes, Singers, Seniors, Industry Advancement Cooperative Fund, AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund. Negotiating committees: Sound Recordings, TV-Theatrical, Uptown Animation. Vested singer and voice actor in Oscar films and hit series, touring recording artist (19 albums, 5000 concerts), hit songwriter  (Benatar’s “We Belong”), still working, still qualifying. Our landscape changes daily, wildly, unpredictably — AI, industry economics, delivery systems, public policy, global production, politics, all spawning threats. I have 25 years of collegial activism across professional and political lines, eyes on the horizon, before industry, legislatures and the press, to chart a bold course and ensure our livelihoods. We matter that much.