Gabrielle Carteris was elected president of FIA in May 2021. She is the immediate past president of SAG-AFTRA, where for more than five years she headed the union of 160,000 actors, recording artists, dancers and broadcasters. Before SAG and AFTRA merged in 2012, Carteris served in leadership positions in both unions, as well as on the merger committee. She became a household name playing Andrea Zuckerman on Beverly Hills, 90210 and her resume includes work in television, film and the stage. Carteris was elected in August 2016 as a vice president on the AFL-CIO’s executive council, re-elected in 2017, and co-leads a sexual harassment workgroup. She also is a founding ambassador of ReFrame, an initiative of Women In Film and Sundance Institute to further gender parity in the media industry. In 2017, Carteris was appointed commissioner to the Hollywood Commission on Eliminating Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality. She is a board member of the Solidarity Center, the largest U.S.-based international worker rights organization, and the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.