COVID, Corruption, and the Screen Actor's Guild.

<p>Namakula's career was derailed by the entertainment industry's COVID mandates. Now she's fighting back by running to be the NY president of SAG-AFTRA. Victory, however, may require exposing <em>shocking</em> levels of corruption within the union.</p><p>Namakula is a&nbsp;multimedia artist who graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She went on to develop a robust career spanning over 20 years in NYC, working throughout the US and Europe as a commercial video editor, creative producer, actor, VO talent, writer and casting director,&nbsp;at a high&nbsp;level. She's supported and spearheaded commercials, industrials, webseries, art films, live events and has worked with top tier ad agencies and production companies, on accounts&nbsp;ranging from multi-million&nbsp;dollar prestige brands to indie projects. She's also a bass player, known as "Nasejje", currently&nbsp;in the indie rock duo, FINE PRINT.</p><p>In the last&nbsp;few years, she and 1000s of SAG-AFTRA members have suffered work stoppage due to the union pushing unscientific, medical mandates as a contingency for employment. This, and the discovery of rife corruption within the guild, has been the impetus for her SAG-AFTRA NY Local Presidential candidacy, (August 2023).&nbsp;<a href="https://www.namakula.com/artivist" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.namakula.com/artivist</a></p><p>0:00:00 -- Intro.</p><p>0:03:37 -- Renaissance Woman and Citizen of the World.</p><p>0:18:54 -- Curiosity, Openness, and Being an Outlier.</p><p>0:23:51 -- On Pandemic Skepticism.</p><p>0:52:12 -- The Onset of the Mandates.</p><p>1:02:35 -- Dysfunction &amp; Corruption in SAG-AFTRA?</p><p>1:27:58 -- On the Future of Show Business.</p><p>-------------------------------------------------------</p><p><strong>SUBSCRIBE TO <em>THE STATE OF THE ARTS</em></strong>: cliftonduncan.substack.com</p><p><strong>BUY TWIN ENGINE COFFEE</strong>: https://twinenginecoffee.com/?aff=4</p><p><strong>DONATE VIA VENMO</strong>: https://account.venmo.com/u/CliftonDuncanArt<