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Summer 2011

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ILCA Honors SAG Communications S creen Actors Guild has once again been recognized for communications excellence by the International Labor PROMOTIONS ADAM MOORE has been promoted to interim national director, Affirmative Action & Diversity. Moore began his tenure at Screen Actors Guild in 2005 as associate national director of Affirmative Action & Diversity and held that position until his promotion in May 2011. Moore has worked in arts advocacy for the past 10 years. He has moderated panel discussions and lectured at film festivals, colleges and high schools throughout the U.S. STAFF MILESTONES Congratulations to our Screen Actors Guild employees who reached a milestone in the second quarter of 2011. Reaching 25 years of service is Silvia Perez. Kamau Talbott, Steve Otroshkin, Mauricio Carbajal, Nancy Mosher and Camara Price celebrate 10 years, and reaching five years with the Guild are Melissa Antuono, Igor Pantelyuk, Jamie Stemmons, Amy Beresford and Leif Larson. SAG FOUNDATION NAMES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR executive director. For the past 20 years, Seltzer has been involved with nonprofit organizations and much of her work has focused on the creative arts. Most recently, she served as vice president of institutional T advancement for WBEZ Chicago Public Media, where she completed a successful capital campaign that surpassed program goals. Prior to WBEZ, she worked at the Weingart Foundation in Los Angeles, which followed a 10-year term as the executive director of the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation in Chicago. Marcia Smith, who served as executive director for 16 years, resigned in January 2011. he Screen Actors Guild Foundation has named Jill Seltzer as its new Communications Association, winning four awards for communications efforts that took place during the 2010 calendar year. "It is an honor to be recognized by our peers and we are all quite proud of the achievement," said SAG Communications Executive Director Pamela Greenwalt. In a category that included international and national labor organization publications, Screen Actor magazine won first place for Best Publication Design. The Guild also won first place for Best Profile for its story on SAG Life Achievement honoree Ernest Borgnine (Screen Actor, Fall/Winter 2010). The Summer 2010 cover, The Kids Are All Right: Protecting Our Young Performers, won third place for Best Cover/Front Page. Screen Actor, a members-only publication available in print and online, benefits greatly from content advisement and other voluntary service provided by the National Communications Committee. SAG AWARDS ® PREVIEW Volume 51, Number 4 Screen Actors Guild Magazine FALL/WINTER 2010 ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE Ernest Borgnine LIFE In a category that included the websites of international and national labor organizations, the Guild's Young Performers website (SAG.org/YoungPerformers) won first place for Best Content. The site launched in 2010 under the stewardship of the National Young Performers Committee and was funded through a grant from the SAG-Producers Industry Advancement and Cooperative Fund. The website features video interviews, an interactive on-set feature, quizzes, FAQs and an online version of SAG's Young Performers Handbook. SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS: Union Plus has awarded scholarships to four people who are SAG members or who have a parent who is a member: Evan Griffith of New York, N.Y.; Jan Neuberger of Newtown, Conn.; Culley Schultz of Glen Ridge, N.J.; and Hatsumi Yoshida of Bronx, N.Y. Visit UnionPlus.org/education for more. SAG.org Summer 2011 - SCREEN ACTOR 21

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