Jessica Johnson is National Director of Entertainment Contracts, TV/Theatrical and New Media for SAG-AFTRA. A manager in SAG-AFTRA’s Entertainment Contracts department for six years, she’s been working for the union since 2014. Prior to SAG-AFTRA, Johnson was an associate at a boutique law firm specializing in production legal services. She’s a graduate of Florida Gulf Coast University’s Lutgert College of Business and Pepperdine University’s Caruso School of Law. She was part of the team that achieved SAG-AFTRA’s “billion-dollar deal” that brought an end to the historic, 118-day actors’ strike of 2023.

Sue-Anne Morrow is the National Director of Contract Strategic Initiatives & Podcasts at SAG-AFTRA, where she is responsible for spearheading initiatives, addressing challenges, and engaging with opportunities that arise from developments and shifts in the entertainment and advertising industries, particularly those driven by new technologies and platforms. She brings over two decades of experience as a performer to her work.

Douglas Mirell is a litigation partner at the Los Angeles law firm of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP. His practice focuses on First Amendment and entertainment industry lawsuits, defamation and invasion of privacy claims, publicity rights disputes, copyright and trademark infringement actions, and other new and traditional media law issues. Most recently, Doug has testified as a technical legal expert on behalf of SAG-AFTRA at various legislative committee hearings in support of Assembly Bill 1836 that seeks to require informed written consent from the heirs or other representatives of deceased performers prior to the creation or distribution of AI-generated or other digital simulations of the voices or likenesses of those performers.

Dade Hayes is the New York-based Business Editor at Deadline, where he has worked since 2017 covering corporate finance, streaming, technology, advertising and a range of other topics affecting the world of entertainment. He is the author or co-author of three books, most recently Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2022). Dade previously was on the editorial staff at Variety, Entertainment Weekly and the Associated Press. His freelance writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Canada’s Globe & Mail and he has contributed original scripts to the popular Wondery podcast Business Wars.