Kim Roberts Hedgpeth
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Kim Roberts Hedgpeth is the National Executive Director of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists {AFTRA}. She is first woman and the first African-American to be named chief executive of a major media industry labor organization.[1]
She joined the AFTRA staff in 1981 and has served in a number of important executive positions within the union. From 1981-86, she was with the New York Local, first as a contract administrator, then as Assistant Executive Director/House Counsel, and later as the Local's Co-Executive Director. From 1987 to 1992, she served as Executive Director of AFTRA’s San Francisco Local and the Screen Actors Guild's San Francisco Branch.
Ms. Hedgpeth joined AFTRA's national staff as Assistant National Executive Director, News and Broadcast in 1992, and was appointed by the AFTRA National Board to the post of Associate National Executive Director in 1997. In 2005, she became National Executive Director of AFTRA.[2]
She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, and is admitted to the California and New York state bars. She has served as Director of Labor and Employee Relations for Harvard University and Vice President of Human Resources of Safe Horizon, the nation's leading crime victims support and advocacy organization. Organizations in which Ms. Hedgpeth has held membership include the New England Human Resources Association, the Massachusetts Governor's African-American Advisory Commission and the San Francisco Mayor's Film Advisory Council. She has also served as Executive Secretary of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America, the umbrella organization for the major performing arts unions in the United States.[3]
