SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris Joins Solidarity Center Board of Trustees

LOS ANGELES —  SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris has joined the Board of Trustees of the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center.

Carteris’ appointment was announced along with two other new Board members: Rory Gamble, president of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) and Alvina Yeh, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA). They will join current Board of Trustees members guiding the Solidarity Center as it strives to empower workers to raise their voice for dignity on the job, justice in their communities and greater equality in the global economy.

SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris said, “I am honored to accept this appointment and thrilled to join the extraordinary labor leaders who serve on the Solidarity Center’s Board of Trustees. Strengthening the bonds between unions is one of the most important things we can do as union leaders to achieve our collective goals for worker’s rights,” said Carteris. “I am especially honored to be appointed to this position because The Solidarity Center acts on a global level by strengthening the economic and political power of workers around the world. Protecting workers and their right to organize is needed now more than ever.”

Carteris became SAG-AFTRA president in 2016, after serving two terms as executive vice president. She became a household name playing Andrea Zuckerman on Beverly Hills, 90210 and recently starred in BH90210, a revival of the iconic show. Her extensive resume includes work in television, film and the stage, with recent credits including a recurring role on Code Black and guest-starring roles on Criminal Minds, Make It or Break It, The Event, Longmire and The Middle.  As a producer, Carteris created Lifestories, a series of specials, and Gabrielle, a talk show that she also hosted. In her role as SAG-AFTRA president, Carteris chairs the National TV/Theatrical Contracts Negotiating Committee and leads the President’s Task Force on Education, Outreach and Engagement. She represents SAG-AFTRA with the International Federation of Actors (FIA), where she works to bring actors together across borders.

The Solidarity Center is the largest U.S.-based international worker rights organization helping workers attain safe and healthy workplaces, family-supporting wages, dignity on the job, widespread democracy and greater equity at work and in their community. Allied with the AFL-CIO, the Solidarity Center assists workers across the globe as, together, they fight discrimination, exploitation and the systems that entrench poverty—to achieve shared prosperity in the global economy.

About SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other entertainment and media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. A proud affiliate of the AFL-CIO, SAG-AFTRA has national offices in Los Angeles and New York and local offices nationwide representing members working together to secure the strongest protections for entertainment and media artists into the 21st century and beyond. Visit SAG-AFTRA online at SAGAFTRA.org.