SAG-AFTRA has named the recipients of the George Heller Memorial Award gold playing cards, which acknowledge contributions to the guild and its members.

Sheila Ivy Traister, Michele Proude, Janice Pendarvis, and Stacey Travis are set to obtain the dignity introduced each two years at SAG-AFTRA’s nationwide conference. The Nationwide Honors and Tributes Committee members from across the nation choose the honorees.

Traister, a SAG-AFTRA Former Nationwide Board Member, is a union advocate who has devoted greater than 44 years of cumulative service to the labor motion, having served on the SAG-AFTRA Nationwide Board, as president of the Colorado Native and as a present member of 5 nationwide committees. The honoree has centered on committees that assist promote inclusiveness of her business and the labor motion and increase equal alternative within the business, together with for performers who’re Asian American and Pacific Islander, and performers with disabilities.

Proude, the SAG-AFTRA Nationwide Vice President, Mid-Sized Locals, has served on native and nationwide committees and as New England Native president. She was first elected by her fellow SAG-AFTRA conference delegates because the nationwide vp of the mid-sized locals in 2019, and was elected to her third time period in 2023.

Pendarvis, the SAG-AFTRA Nationwide Vice President, Recording Artists/Singers, is a singer and voice actor who has spent years preventing for singers legislatively and inside the union. Her precedence has been to create extra union work for SAG-AFTRA members — particularly these working within the recording business. Pendarvis is at the moment serving her second time period as SAG-AFTRA’s nationwide vp, recording artists/singers.

Travis, a Former SAG-AFTRA Nationwide Board Member, who for over three a long time has been devoted to union service. She was first elected to the SAG Board in 2008 and fought for over a decade to take away ages and birthdates from IMDb. She additionally devotes her time and power to making sure that members are educated about contract modifications and alternatives and helps to drive SAG-AFTRA’s legislative agenda in California and Washington, D.C.