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HISPANICIZE 2013 SAG-AFTRA co-sponsored the fourth annual Latino trends event, Hispanicize 2013, an intensive gathering of Latino journalists, marketers, bloggers, filmmakers, musicians and entrepreneurs that took place April 9-13 in Miami Beach, Fla. Among the attendees were telenovela actor Ernesto LaGuardia, left; Univision Vice President of Programming and Programming Operations Sandra Smester, center; SAG-AFTRA Director, Spanish Language Media Industry Relations Carlina RodrÃguez, right; and SAG-AFTRA South Region Director, Contracts and Operations Leslie Krensky. MEMBERS MARCH IN EQUALITY PARADE On June 11, SAG-AFTRA members, along with members of Actors' Equity, joined Women Stage the World at the Equality Parade in New York. Women Stage the World is a new initiative from the Advocacy Committee of the nonprofit League of Professional Theatre Women. The initiative targets ticket-buyers and theater decisionmakers to support and promote awareness of gender equality in entertainment and media. Signs and suffrage-style sashes were handed out and the women marched down Broadway through the busy Theater District in Times Square. EXPANDING ROLES FOR PERFORMERS WITH DISABILITIES SAG-AFTRA's Equal Employment Opportunities & Diversity Department and the Performers with Disabilities Committee hosted an unveiling on June 28 of a new way to allow casting directors to easily find actors with disabilities. Designed in collaboration with Breakdown Services, Inclusion in the Arts, and Casting Directors and Media Task Force, a new template was created for ActorsAccess.com to allow performers with disabilities to easily self-identify by using a checkable interface. Those who attended the Los Angeles event, titled Actors Access for Performers with Disabilities, had the opportunity to watch a demonstration of the website and see how casting views submissions made by agents and actors. SAG-AFTRA National Performers with Disabilities Committee Co-Chair Robert David Hall (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) and U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy Assistant Secretary of Labor Kathleen Martinez attended the Los Angeles event, along with Gary Marsh, President of Breakdown Services/Actors Access and Casting Director Pam Dixon, past president of Casting Society of America. JEFF COLEN PHOTOGRAPHY Robert David Hall, co-chair of the National Performers with Disabilities Committee, and U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy Assistant Secretary of Labor Kathleen Martinez Co-chair of the National Women's Committee and Chair of the New York Local Women's Committee leslie Shreve, left, marches with union members at the Equality Parade in New York. For more information about Women Stage the World please visit womenstagetheworld.org SAGAFTRA.org | Summer 2013 | SAG-AFTRA 15A