From Nashville's Co-President

By Cece DuBois

Hey everybody, Happy New Year to y’all! Think about this: Jan. 1, 2013, marked the day when, for the first time we, as union members, stepped into the year as one union! Yup, it’s a monumental moment, one that we or our predecessors have striven for since the 1930s. It is now. We are here.

As I have said many times through the years, here in Nashville we are the same community of performers that we’ve always been. When I was first elected president of this local back in 1993, the Nashville office housed both AFTRA and SAG. Then in 2003, SAG took its boots off the ground in Nashville, and AFTRA was flying solo. But in 2012, members of SAG and of AFTRA across this nation made their voices heard … and SAG-AFTRA was born. 

So dream big, brothers and sisters. We are who we are, doing what we do creatively. Members of our union family are the ones honored at the SAG Awards, the CMT Awards, the CMAs, the Oscars, the Grammys, the ACMs, the Emmys — every award given to any performer in video, film, digital and sound recordings of any stripe comes to take its place on the family mantle of SAG-AFTRA’s members. Welcome home.