On Sept. 12, Brooke Shields, the new president of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), spoke at a National Press Club Headliners luncheon. The event included a one-hour interview led by National Press Club president and CNBC journalist Emily Wilkins. The lunch took place in Washington, D.C., where Shields spent time on Sept. 11 lobbying government leaders on Capitol Hill.
As Shields shared during her talk with Wilkins, her Sept. 11 meetings included advocacy for national arts funding and the Performing Artist Tax Parity Act (PATPA). “Yesterday was about getting more cosponsorship [for PATPA] and finding the right people to push that through,” Shields said, noting that the bipartisan bill already has 90 cosponsors but needs more to be enacted.
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