January 22 marked the very first PGA Lot Delegate Lunch. The networking event was the brain-child of AP Council members Karen Covell and Jethro Rothe-Kushel. It was held for PGA members working for the Walt Disney Company Disney at their Studio Lot in Burbank California. 

The Delegate Lunch program is designed to connect the PGA members on each lot so they have friends and associates to network with and hire.  It also provides the PGA with a more viable presence at each studio creating a linked community of member producers, and serves as a way to reach new potential members.

Thanks to Vice President of Digital Media Studio, Disney/ABC Television Group, Chris Thomes (also PGA New Media Council Chair and VP of New Media for the Guild) the event reached producers from divisions all over the Walt Disney Company including Television, Motion Pictures, Interactive and Imagineering. "It was a great way for PGA members to find each other in a Studio," says Thomes, "It's not easy to identify PGA members or connect with them at work. This program is a first step in that vein and will be a real value to PGA members moving forward. Karen and Jethro have the right idea here."