SUMI SEVILLA HARU is a producer, actor, electronic and print journalist, writer and poet. Her company, Iron Lotus Productions, specializes in festival production. She produced large events for the Cultural Affairs Department, including the Central Avenue Jazz Festival, Mariachi Festival, L.A. Fiesta Broadway, Bolero Festival, five Millennium Festivals, a drama/improvisation program with at-risk Central City youth, L.A. Arts Care-A-Van touring program, Se Habla Everything variety shows, and big band concerts.

  HARU was a co-producer and co-host of L.A. Arts Mix a Cable-ACE award-winning television magazine program on the arts and culture of Los Angeles and anchor of L.A. News Brief on City Channel 35. She also served as grants coordinator for the Department Cultural Grant Program. HARU has been a national board member of the Screen Actors Guild since 1974. She served as acting president in 1995, first national vice president with Bill Daniels, Richard Masur and Barry Gordon, and as national recording secretary in four two-year terms with presidents Edward Asner and Patty Duke.

  HARU was a cofounder and national chair of SAG's Ethnic Employment Opportunities Committee and a co-drafter and negotiator of the "American Scene" language and affirmative action clauses of the national Theatrical and Commercials contracts. HARU originated the EEOC Career Day and helped develop SAG's affirmative action conferences. She chaired the Legislative Committee and has served as a legislative advocate on the national state and local levels. She is a trustee and former president of the SAG-Producers Industry Advancement and Cooperative Fund, and is a former board member of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.