Nicolette Bruining

Nicolette Adriana Bruining (27 August 1886 – 12 April 1963) was a Dutch theologian and founding president of the Liberal Protestant Radio Broadcasting Corporation () (VPRO). She was also a teacher and humanitarian, assisting Jews during the Second World War. Her aid was acknowledged by the state of Israel, which posthumously awarded her as Righteous Among the Nations in 1990.
Biography.
Nicolette Adriana Bruining was born on 27 August 1886 in Stompetoren, Netherlands to Aida Helena Elisabeth (née Huygens) and Albertus Bruining. She graduated from Barlaeus Gymnasium in Amsterdam and decided to follow in her father's footsteps, pursuing her university studies in theology. She enrolled at the University of Amsterdam, where her father was a professor, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1912. That same year, she began teaching religion at various schools, including the teacher training school of the Haagsch Genootschap (The Hague Society). In 1916, she presented her dissertation on the Dutch dogmatic Lutheran theologian Franz Hermann Reinhold von Frank ("De Theologie van F.H.R. von Frank"). She joined the Association of Liberal Protestants and served as chair of The Hague's chapter. She also began preaching in various municipalities for both the liberal branch of the Dutch Reformed Church and the Netherlands Protestant Association.
In 1923, she helped establish the Vrijzinnige Geloofsgemeenschap NPB to broaden the scope of the church. In particular, she proposed that the new medium of radio be used to disseminate the liberal Christian view. In 1925, Bruining and E. D. Spelberg set up a committee to investigate the possibility of broadcasting programming in support of their cause; they discovered that the government body responsible for broadcast licensing would only grant airtime to legally established organizations. As a result, the Central Committee went on in 1926 to establish the Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep "(Liberal Protestant Radio Broadcasting Corporation, VPRO)"; Bruining was president, and Spelberg secretary. Bruining publicized their approach both in their broadcasts and in the articles frequently published in the radio magazine "Vrije Geluiden" (Free Sounds), advocating non-sectarianism and inviting all intellectual movements to participate. During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, VPRO was banned from broadcasting.
Bruining had been teaching Hebrew to upper level classes at the municipal high school in The Hague, but in 1941, all Jewish students were expelled and she quit teaching in protest. She agreed to continue teaching students in her home. When one of her students, Elisabeth Waisvisz and her family, were threatened with deportation, Bruining acted as an intermediary with the underground to help them find safehouses, provided ration coupons, acted as a go-between for delivering letters between the family members and personally delivered the message to Waisvisz that her parents had been betrayed and sent to Westerbork transit camp. Both Waisvisz daughters survived the war, thanks to Bruining's intervention.
In 1945, VPRO was allowed to go back on the air. Bruining and Spelberg were fully reinstated in 1947. In 1951, when the Dutch Television Foundation was established, Bruining served on its board as a representative of VPRO. Throughout the 1950s, she hosted a program known as "Today"; owing to her preferences, the program was broadcast live. She retired in 1956 and was made honorary president of VPRO for life. Bruining died on 12 April 1963 in The Hague. Posthumously, she was honored by the government of Israel on 7 March 1990 as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, an award granted to recognize non-Jews for assisting Jews in surviving the Holocaust, for her assistance to the Waisvisz family.


Marie Louise Kirkland

Sister Marie Louise (October 1899 – July 10, 1999) was a Roman Catholic nun and sports commentator in Washington, D.C. "Weasie" appeared on WUSA-TV with sportscaster Glenn Brenner.
Early life.
Born in Washington, DC, to Rose Virginia Kreamer Kirkland (1858–1944) and William L. Kirkland (1848–1918), with siblings William Louis Kirkland (1892–1955) and Camille Rose Kirkland Fisher (1901–1982), she played basketball in high school in Montgomery County, Maryland. She earned a degree from Immaculata College and worked as a courthouse clerk in Rockville, Maryland until her 30s. She entered Georgetown Visitation Monastery on January 5, 1935, and remained there as a semi-cloistered nun for the rest of her life. Although she initially worried that she'd have to give up sports, she was permitted to follow them avidly, especially her favorite, football.
Work with Glenn Brenner.
Brenner was a Roman Catholic who graduated from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, a Jesuit institution. When he heard from Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School alumnae that Sister Marie Louise had a talent for sports predictions, he invited her to call into his "Mystery Prognosticator Contest" in 1989. After she beat Brenner's other celebrity sports predictors including (according to her "Washington Post" obituary) "newscasters Dan Rather, Maureen Bunyan and Connie Chung; boxer Sugar Ray Leonard; actors William Shatner and Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens); members of the Temptations; and football stars Sonny Jurgensen and Mark Rypien -- "People" magazine and other publications came courting." Brenner made her a regular, thanks to the permission of Mother Mary DeSales, who happened to be an avid fan of football, and the story was picked up internationally. "People" magazine put her story on its cover. She won $1,000 for each correct prediction, and donated it all to Visitation school.


Joni DeRouchie

Joni DeRouchie (born 1973) is an American film and video music director, from Portland, Oregon.
Biography.
Early life.
A self-taught writer, director and photographer from Portland, Oregon, DeRouchie began painting in high school and progressed to photography due to the frustration she felt at the inability to capture what she saw. After a couple years, photography progressed into a desire to capture what she saw in moving form, including stage direction and film.
Film career.
She first received major attention as a 2001 Project Greenlight semi-finalist with her feature-length script "The Frank Principle". In 2002, she directed a 20-minute short film adaptation of scenes from "The Frank Principle", which premiered at the Split.ID Film Festival in Hollywood in January 2003.
In 2003, she directed Rick Emerson's one-man stage show, "", which debuted to a sold-out, standing-room-only audience that summer and was later returned for a successful run in 2004. She combined with Rick Emerson again on a short thriller called "Remote Control", which played in 2004 at both the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival and the Portland Underground Film Festival.
In 2005, DeRouchie worked with Emerson in the DVD production of "Bigger Than Jesus", which was performed at Portland State University's Lincoln Hall. Later in 2005, she produced a two-part television pilot with Emerson called "Rock Roundtable" which aired on a local station. She produced the documentary, "I Was a Teenage Dirtbag". She directed her first music video in 2006 for the gothic metal band Nicodemus. December 2007/January 2008 saw another DeRouchie and Emerson collaboration when they wrote and produced a live radio play, "Ebenezer? I Barely Knew Her!", which was first broadcast on CBS Radio on December 21, 2007, and re-broadcast the following week.
External links.
Films
Misc


Jennie Blanche Newhall

Jennie Blanche Newhall (1874–1943) was an American attorney. She was the second woman admitted to practice law in the state of New Hampshire.
Early life and education.
Newhall was born in Concord, New Hampshire, on June 8, 1874. She graduated from Concord High School and took correspondence courses at Hamilton College's Law School. She also studied under New Hampshire attorneys and worked as a secretary for the New Hampshire Attorney General.
Legal career.
Attorney Newhall petitioned for bar admittance in 1919 and passed the New Hampshire bar examination in 1920. On June 30, 1920, Newhall was admitted to practice in the state of New Hampshire. She was the first woman law clerk in the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office and served in that role for more than 25 years. During this time, she argued many cases before the New Hampshire Supreme Court and became an expert in New Hampshire corporation law.
In 1927, Newhall applied to become a Justice of the Peace. Her application was sent to the New Hampshire Supreme Court to determine if a woman could hold this title. Newhall argued before the court pro se. The Court ruled that although there was not a constitutional bar to appointing women to this office, legislation first needed to be passed to allow it. In response, Newhall drafted the appropriate legislation and successfully lobbied for its passage in 1929. In February of that year, Newhall was the first woman to be appointed Justice of the Peace in New Hampshire, by Governor Charles W. Tobey and the New Hampshire Executive Council.
Newhall also served as the Vice President of the National Association of Women Lawyers.


Carmen Lomas Garza

Carmen Lomas Garza (born 1948) is an American artist and illustrator. She is well known for her paintings, ofrendas and for her papel picado work inspired by her Mexican-American heritage. Her work is a part of the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of Mexican Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Mexican Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Oakland Museum of California, among other institutions.
Biography.
Garza was born in 1948 in Kingsville, Texas. She is the second of five children. This small community is near the Mexico-United States border. Garza loved watching her mother paint, and felt like what her mother did was magic. Garza had also seen her mother painting picture cards for a game that is similar to Bingo around the time she was 8, which increased her love of art even more. Garza wanted to be an artist from the time she was thirteen when she started drawing every day. Garza helped her grandmother create embroidery patterns using paper cutouts as a young child. The influence of her mother's and grandmother's art-making was very strong and by age thirteen Garza had decided she would be an artist. Her parents encouraged her to pursue her interests in college.
Most of the families living in her community growing up were Mexican-American just like her family. When Garza and her brother started to attend school, speaking Spanish was not tolerated. They were often teased by other children who did not understand their culture. Even when Garza attended high school, speaking Spanish was still not tolerated. She and her friends were hit with a paddle as a punishment if they spoke Spanish.
Garza first attended Texas Arts and Industry University (now Texas A&M University, Kingsville). Her parents had been involved in political organizing through the American GI Forum, and Garza followed in their footsteps by organizing a book store Chicanos on her college campus. In 1972, she received a BS in art education and a Texas Teaching Certificate at Texas Arts and Industry. During her undergraduate studies, she decided that it was important for her to create art that would be understood by people of all ages. Garza learned to be proud of her culture and wanted to educate others using her art.
Later, Garza received a Master of Education in 1973 at Juarez-Lincoln/Antioch Graduate School and a Master of Art in 1981 from San Francisco State University.
As of 1976, Garza lives in San Francisco, California.
Art and children's books.
The initial roots of Garza's artwork lay in her family, to whom she is close, and in the Chicano Movement. Garza later wrote that the Chicano Movement nourished her goal of being an artist and gave her back her voice. She says that her artistic creations helped her "heal the wounds inflicted by discrimination and racism." Garza also feels that by creating positive images of Mexican-American families, her work can help combat racism. Her choice to use personal and family images to combat racism is a departure from more political works by many Chicano artists. The creation of her narrative, rather than one that is forced on her, however, speaks against racism on its own.
Garza incorporates little figures ("monitos") in her artwork. The figures and their interactions with the spaces they inhabit show how Chicano/a identities are connected to the places she paints. Her paintings are also idealized and the figures become archetypes. Her flattened figures and sense of space create "a sense of immediacy," letting the viewer interact directly with the subject matter.
Garza has made Day of the Dead "ofrendas", or ritual altars, to honor not just family members, but also people from history. She has made "ofrendas" for Frida Kahlo, Doña Sebastiana, and Tenochtitlán.
She has created eight paintings for the San Francisco Water Department and a sculpture at San Francisco International Airport. In Chan Kaajal Park, a park opened in 2017 in San Francisco's Mission District, features renderings of a California condor and a great blue heron by Garza, commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission.
As an author-illustrator, Garza has authored bilingual children's books that are notable for the bilingual text and vivid illustrations. She draws on Chicano culture, family stories, memories, and her heritage. Her archives are held by the Benson Latin American Collection.
Exhibitions.
In 2013, Garza's "Cama para Suenos" (1985) and "Loteria-Tabla Llena" (1972) were included in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
Garza was also featured in the University of Texas at Austin's 7th Annual ¡A Viva Voz! where she talked and exhibited over 20 of her works. The exhibit ran from April through August 2009.
"Carmen Lomas Garza: A Retrospective" was Garza's first retrospective and featured work from the mid-1970s to the present. It was organized by the San Jose Museum of Art, where it was on view from January to April 2001; it later traveled to the San Antonio Museum of Art, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Ellen Noël Art Museum, National Hispanic Cultural Center, and the Polk Museum of Art.
Awards and honors.
A primary school in Los Angeles, the Carmen Lomas Garza Primary Center, is named in Garza's honor.


Pearl Carter Pace

Pearl Carter Pace (January 25, 1896 – January 1970) was elected sheriff in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1938–1941.
Early years.
Pearl Carter was born into a family devoted to public service in Tompkinsville in Monroe County, Kentucky. Her father, James C. Carter, Sr., had served for forty years as a circuit judge in south central Kentucky. James C. Carter, Jr., the brother of Pearl Carter Pace and U.S. Representative, Dr. Tim Lee Carter, also served in political office for many years.
Pearl Carter married Stanley Dan Pace, the owner of a profitable roadbuilding company and relocated to his neighboring Cumberland County.
Political career.
Originally a schoolteacher and a businesswoman, Pace had a great philosophy of life: "Anybody can do anything he wants if he just wants enough to make the effort." This thinking took her into areas of life largely uncharted for rural southern women. She was the sheriff of Cumberland County from 1937 to 1941. During her four-year term as sheriff, she came to be known as "Pistol-Packin' Pearl."
Pace's husband, Stanley Dan Pace, had been "drafted" in 1933 to run for Cumberland County sheriff by county citizens determined to control rum-running and organized crime during prohibition. He was elected as the first Democrat to hold that office since the 19th century. When his term ended, he was unable to succeed himself; so Pearl was drafted to run and was elected. Stanley Pace died in a car accident, leaving Pearl Carter Pace to raise their children and to pursue her career in local, state, and national politics.
During World War II, her son, Stanley Carter Pace, a fighter pilot and first lieutenant, was taken as a prisoner of war by the German Reich. Upon returning from the war, Stanley C. Pace put his aerospace engineering degree to work and rose to the chairmanship of TRW. After being pulled from retirement in the 1980s, he assumed the position of restoring the giant defense contractor, General Dynamics, to credibility after grievous ethical lapses brought the company to near dissolution.
Through Pearl Carter Pace's activism in the Republican Party, she became a tireless supporter and friend of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1953, she brought national attention to Kentucky when President Eisenhower appointed her to the War Claims Commission (later the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission). Near the end of his administration, Eisenhower elevated her to the commission chairmanship, making Pearl Carter Pace the third highest ranking woman in his administration, next only to the Treasurer of the United States and the new position of United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the first Kentucky woman appointed by a president to a national post. Pace was active in the GOP for many years, including a stint from 1948 to 1957 as her state's Republican national committeewoman.
Death.
Pace died in 1970 at the home of her daughter, Patty-Nell Pace Keen, in Burkesville, the seat of Cumberland County. Pace is interred beside her husband at the former Pace-Allen Cemetery, now Grider Memorial Cemetery, in Waterview in Cumberland County at a site overlooking Pace Farms.


Sharon Gaetz

Sharon L. Gaetz is the first woman elected mayor of Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. She had previously served as acting mayor prior to being elected. Mayor Gaetz also served as director for the Fraser Valley Regional District. She was elected mayor during the 2008 British Columbia municipal elections. In 2018, she lost to incumbent city councilor Ken Popove whilst seeking a fourth term.
In 2007, then-Councillor Gaetz presented information about cannabis cultivation to Chilliwack's social issues advisory committee. Also that year, she supported the densification of the city through the construction of an apartment building containing 71 units.
Before entering politics, Mayor Gaetz was a pastor at the Southside Church in Chilliwack.
Family.
Gaetz and her husband, Jim, have a son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren.


Jane Swisshelm

Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (December 6, 1815 – July 22, 1884) was an American journalist, publisher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate. She was one of the first women journalists hired by Horace Greeley at his " New York Tribune." She was active as a writer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and as a publisher and editor in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where she founded a string of newspapers and regularly wrote for them.
While working for the federal government in Washington, D.C., during the administration of President Andrew Johnson, Swisshelm founded her last newspaper, "Reconstructionist". Her published criticism of Johnson led to her losing her job and the closing of the paper. She published her autobiography in 1881.
Biography.
Early life and family.
Swisshelm was born Jane Grey Cannon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., one of several children of Mary (Scott) and Thomas Cannon, both of Scotch-Irish descent. Her father was a merchant and real estate speculator.
In 1823, when Jane was eight years of age, both her sister Mary and her father died of consumption, leaving the family in straitened circumstances. Jane worked at manual labor, doing lace making and painting on velvet, and her mother colored leghorn and straw hats. At twelve, she was sent to boarding school for several weeks, as there were no public schools at the time. When she returned home, she learned that the doctor thought she was in the first stage of consumption. Her mother had already lost four of her children to illnesses. She moved with her children to Wilkinsburg, a village outside Pittsburgh, and started a store. After more formal study, Jane started teaching classes for village children in 1830. That year her family learned that her older brother, William, much loved by all, had died of yellow fever in New Orleans, where he had gone for work.
On November 18, 1836, at age 20, Cannon married James Swisshelm, from a nearby town. Jane was strong-willed making the circumstances of marriage difficult. They moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1838, where James intended to go into business with his brother, Samuel. This is where Jane first encountered slavery, which made a strong impression on her. Nearby was a man who had sold away his own mixed-race children. She wrote in her autobiography of some of the sights she saw and stories she heard.
In 1839, against her husband's wishes, she moved to Philadelphia to care for her ailing mother. After her mother's death, she headed a girls' seminary in Butler, Pennsylvania. Two years later, she rejoined her husband on his farm, which she called Swissvale, east of Pittsburgh. (Today the area is Edgewood).
Activism and newspaper writing.
During this time, Swisshelm began writing articles against capital punishment, and stories, poems, and articles for an anti-slavery newspaper, the "Spirit of Liberty", and others in Pittsburgh. Prompted by the demise of the "Spirit of Liberty" and the similarly themed "Albatross", Swisshelm founded the newspaper "Saturday Visiter" ["sic"] in 1847. It eventually reached a national circulation of 6,000, and in 1854 was merged with the weekly edition of the Pittsburgh "Commercial Journal". She wrote many editorials advocating women's property rights.
On April 17, 1850, while working for the "New York Tribune", she became the first female reporter admitted to the reporters gallery of the U. S. Senate. Both her presence and her account of that day's fracas, in which Mississippi Senator Henry Foote drew a pistol when Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton charged at him, were widely noted. According to a Wisconsin newspaper, "nobody but a regular woman could make a description of such a scene so interesting. That jerking, nervous, half breathless excitement which would embarrass the narrative of a man only adds piquancy and grace to that of a woman".
In 1857, Swisshelm divorced her husband and moved west to St. Cloud, Minnesota, where she controlled a string of newspapers. She promoted abolition and women's rights by writing and lecturing. The city was a developing center of trade, located on the Mississippi in the central part of the eastern border of the state.
Writing in "The Saint Cloud Visiter", Swisshelm waged a private war against Sylvanus Lowry, a Southern slaveholder and Indian trader who had settled in the area in 1847. Politically influential, he had been elected to the Territorial Council, and as the city's first mayor in 1856. By then he reigned as Saint Cloud's Democratic political boss. Swisshelm was especially infuriated that Lowry owned slaves, as Minnesota was a free state.
But, in 1857 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Dred Scott case that slaves had no standing as citizens to file freedom suits, and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, so the state's prohibition against slavery could not be enforced. More Southerners migrated to St. Cloud and Minnesota with slaves. After the outbreak of the Civil War, most Southerners returned to the South, taking their slaves with them.
Writing in "The Visiter", Swisshelm accused Lowry of swindling the local Winnebago as a trader, ordering vigilante attacks on suspected land claim jumpers, and abusing his slaves. He started a rival paper, "The Union", later called the "St. Cloud Times", to offset her influence.
After one of her fiery editorials, Lowry formed a "Committee of Vigilance", broke into the newspaper's offices, smashed the printing press, and threw the pieces into the nearby Mississippi River. Swisshelm soon raised money for another press and raised her attacks to a fever pitch. Formerly being groomed for the state post of Lieutenant Governor, Lowry saw his influence over Saint Cloud politics lessened but was elected to the state senate in 1862. He died young in 1865 in St. Cloud.
Civil War years.
When Abraham Lincoln was nominated for the presidency, Swisshelm spoke and wrote in his behalf. When the American Civil War began and nurses were wanted at the front, she was one of the first to respond. After the Battle of the Wilderness, she had charge of 182 badly wounded men at Fredericksburg for five days, without surgeon or assistant, and saved them all.
In 1862, when a Sioux Indian uprising in Minnesota resulted in the deaths of hundreds of white settlers, Swisshelm was among those demanding the federal government punish the Indians. She toured major cities to raise public opinion about this issue and, while in Washington, D.C., met with Edwin M. Stanton, a friend from Pittsburgh and then Secretary of War. He offered her a clerkship in the government. She sold her Minnesota paper and continued to work as an army nurse during the Civil War in the Washington area until her job became available.
Later life and death.
After the war, Swisshelm founded her final newspaper, the "Reconstructionist." Her attacks on President Andrew Johnson led to her losing the paper and her government job. In 1872, she attended the Prohibition Party convention as a delegate.
Swisshelm published "Letters to Country Girls" (New York, 1853), a collection of newspaper columns she had launched in 1849, and an autobiography entitled "Half of a Century" (1881).
Swisshelm died on July 22, 1884 at her Swissvale home and is buried in Allegheny Cemetery. The city of Pittsburgh neighborhood of Swisshelm Park, adjacent to Swissvale, is named in her honor.
A new edition of Swisshelm's autobiography was published in 2005.


Deborah Needleman

Deborah Needleman, is an American editor and writer. She was editor in chief of "T: The New York Times Style Magazine" from September 2012 to December 2016. Prior to that she was editor in chief of WSJ. Magazine, and the creator of the paper's weekend lifestyle section and before that, the founding editor in chief of domino magazine.
Early life.
Needleman grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and graduated from George Washington University where she studied philosophy and art history.
Career.
Needleman worked as a photographer's assistant for a freelance photographer before becoming the photo editor at "The Washington Post" Sunday magazine. She wrote about gardens and design for "The New York Times", "Slate", and "House & Garden", where she was editor-at-large, before becoming a magazine editor.
T Magazine.
Deborah Needleman was named editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine in September 2012.
The first issue of T under Deborah Needleman in March 2013 featured Lee Radziwill on the cover, for which she and Sofia Coppola produced a short film. As part of the 10th Anniversary issue of T in October 2014, the magazine ran 10 different covers and the website looked back on some of T's most memorable covers.
In October 2015, Needleman was sharply criticized by T Magazine readers and then-New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan for conflicts of interest created by Needleman's decision to assign Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen—wife of billionaire Marc Andreessen—a feature that appeared in the Oct. 12, 2015 issue of T titled "Five Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World" without any disclosure that Arrillaga-Andreessen was "not only married to a major player in the tech world, but one who is a major investor in one of the companies she featured." Needleman, when asked to respond to the controversy by Sullivan, replied that she "agree[d] that we should have had a disclosure, and it was my mistake in not asking her if there were any potential conflicts. This was an oversight on my part." Needleman's rationale for not perceiving the conflicts as controversial was that Arrillaga-Andreessen is extraordinarily wealthy: "[S]he is, separately from her husband, a billionaire (making her through marriage a billionaire twice over) and for that reason I think I failed to consider any monetary conflict in her case." Media critics observed that upon closer examination, four of the five profiles Arrillaga-Andreessen had written for the issue were "poisoned by conflicts of interest."
Needleman and T Magazine were also sharply criticized by Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple for having "disappeared tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes" from the Oct. 12, 2015 feature on tech visionaries after the Wall Street Journal reported that Holmes and Theranos—the blood testing company Holmes founded and was then chief executive of—appeared to be misleading consumers and investors as to the effectiveness of technology the company had claimed to pioneer. Wemple noted that T Magazine appended italicized text at the bottom of Arrillaga-Andreessen's article stating there had been ""new developments involving Theranos"," but didn't account for the discrepancy between Needleman's heralding of Holmes, in a letter to readers that appeared in the issue, as a "brilliant" entrepreneur who "has already had an enormous impact" and the lack of any "tagline informing readers that Holmes has gone poof." Holmes was subsequently charged with perpetrating "massive fraud" by the Securities and Exchange Commission and resigned in disgrace.
One of Needleman's last issues, in October 2016, was themed 'The Greats' and had 7 different covers featuring Michelle Obama, Zadie Smith, William Eggleston, Kerry James Marshall, Junya Watanabe, Lady Gaga and Massimo Bottura. To celebrate the issue, the magazine held a salon-like dinner party at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan where the honorees and guests could converse in an intimate way without many of the usual distractions of organized 'events', such as a red carpet, social media bloggers, or outside press coverage. , , , , , .
In November 2016, T launched its first Virtual Reality film, executive produced by Needleman and directed by the Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name; I am Love; A Bigger Splash) on the working process of artist Rob Pruitt, the first in a series titled 'The Creators'.
WSJ.
The newspaper section Needleman created called 'Off Duty' publishes on Saturdays, and covers fashion, tech, design, and food. The name was suggested by her husband. While launching the section for the paper, in 2010, Needleman agreed to become the editor in chief of "WSJ. magazine", the paper's then quarterly glossy magazine. In 2012, Needleman went to the New York Times to become editor in chief of "T: The New York Times Style Magazine", .
domino.
Launched by Condé Nast Publications in Spring 2005, "domino" was a decorating style magazine centered on the home. In its first year, "domino" was honored with The Hot List Startup of the Year by "Adweek", Top Launch of the Year by "Media Industry Newsletter" and The A-List 10 under 50 by "Advertising Age". In its third year, the magazine grew to a rate base of 800K by the time of its closing, it reached a circulation of 1 million. The magazine received two 2008 National Magazine Award nominations from the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). In October 2008, "domino" released its first book, domino: the book of decorating, published by Simon & Schuster.
It was announced on 28 January 2009, that Conde Nast would cease publishing "domino", and that Needleman had left the company. The New York Times published a story about the 'mourners' decrying the magazine's demise. Condé Nast tried to revive the title but floundered, and sold domino to St. Louis-based digital publisher Multiply in June 2018.
Personal.
Needleman lives in Manhattan with her husband, Jacob Weisberg, the CEO and co-founder with Malcolm Gladwell of Pushkin Industries, a podcasting and audio production company, and their two children. She is the author of The Perfectly Imperfect Home, an illustrated treatise on decorating in a style that allows for the vagaries of life and is welcoming, rather than picture perfect and co-author of the New York Times bestselling Domino: The Book of Decorating. She is on the board of the National Book Foundation and the Modernism Advisory Council of the World Monument Fund.


Ofentse Pitse

Ofentse Pitse (born c. 1992) is a South African conductor. She is the first black South African woman to conduct and own an all-black orchestra, Anchored Sound.
Life.
Ofentse Pitse was born in Mabopane. Her grandfather Otto Pitse was a jazz conductor and trumpet player. She first played an instrument at the age of twelve, when an uncle gave her a flugelhorn. She played in the Salvation Army band in Mabopane, though much of her musical education was informal.
In 2017 Pitse started a youth choir in Katlehong, hand-picking classically-trained young people. Discovering that there was no all-black classical orchestra in the world, Pitse grew the choir into an orchestra. Boosted by established classical musicians, the ensemble grew from 8 to 19 to a 40-piece symphony orchestra. In 2019 Pitse contacted Thami Zungu, head of music at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), and Gerben Grooten, the conductor of the University of Pretoria Philharmonic, who each provided her with mentoring in conducting. By 2021 Anchored Sound consisted of a 45-piece orchestra and 30-member choir, and had tackled music from Sibelius to Vivaldi to Dvořák. Pitse has kept the orchestra practicing though the COVID-19 pandemic, though orchestra members in disadvantaged communities have faced especial technological challenges.


Dawn Butler

Dawn Petula Butler (born 3 November 1969) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent Central since 2015.
Butler sat as the MP for Brent South during the fifty-fourth Parliament from 2005, serving in the Brown ministry as Minister for Young Citizens and Youth Engagement from 2009 to 2010.
She lost her seat in 2010 to Sarah Teather from the Liberal Democrats. She returned to Parliament in 2015, and in October 2016, she was appointed to the new role of Shadow Minister for Diverse Communities by Jeremy Corbyn after his election as new Labour Leader, later becoming a close ally of him.
In February 2017, she resigned from the frontbench to vote against the triggering of Article 50, which formally launched the Brexit negotiations. From August 2017, Butler again returned to the Shadow Cabinet and was promoted Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities. She stood in the 2020 Labour Party deputy leadership election and came last; in fifth place, before being sacked by new Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer. She left her Shadow Cabinet position in April 2020 and returned to the backbenches.
Butler appeared on British "Vogue"'s 2020 list of 25 influential women.
Early life.
Butler was born in Forest Gate in East London, to Jamaican immigrant parents Milo and Ambrozene Butler; she has one sister and four brothers. She was educated at Tom Hood School in Leytonstone and Waltham Forest College, both in London.
She worked as an officer of the GMB Union, including time as a national race and equality officer. Butler was also an adviser to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, on employment and social issues.
Parliamentary career.
First term (2005–2010).
Butler first sought selection to be the Labour candidate in Hackney South and Shoreditch, where she featured on an all-women shortlist but was unsuccessful. Butler put herself forward for selection for West Ham in 2005 but was not selected. Following the retirement of Paul Boateng to become British High Commissioner to South Africa, she was selected as the Labour candidate in Brent South and retained the seat for her party at the 2005 general election with a majority of 11,326. She was the third black woman to become a British MP after Diane Abbott and Oona King.
Interest in youth services continued as one of her main interests in Parliament. On 24 October 2006, she was appointed chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs, and she is an honorary vice president of the British Youth Council. After Gordon Brown became prime minister in June 2007, Butler was made one of the Labour Party's six vice chairs, with particular responsibility for youth issues.
In 2006, Butler voted against investigations into the Iraq War. She subsequently voted against investigations a further six times up until 2016. She explained that this was because she believed that it would be wrong to hold investigations "while we still had troops in Iraq ... If you held an inquiry while the troops were still out there doing their best to fight for the country, it would have been soul-destroying for them."
She was appointed to the Select Committee on the Modernisation of the House of Commons shortly after her election, and served on standing committees. In November 2007 she was appointed to the Children & Families Select Committee. Earlier (in November 2005), she had been promoted to Parliamentary Private Secretary to the health minister Jane Kennedy, but decided to stand down from this post in early 2006.
She was promoted to Assistant Whip on 12 September 2008.
Butler was named female MP of the year at the 2009 Women in Public Life awards. Following her appointment as Minister for Young Citizens and Youth Engagement, Butler became the first black woman to speak from the despatch box in the House of Commons in December 2009. She later said that Conservative MPs "tried to belittle me at that moment in history", specifying that one Tory MP "took great delight in telling me that ‘upskilling’ was not in the English dictionary".
Boundary changes.
Butler's constituency of Brent South was abolished at the 2010 general election. Its territory was mostly divided between two constituencies: a new Brent Central seat and a re-drawn Brent North. Butler was selected as the Labour candidate in Brent Central but lost to Sarah Teather, the Liberal Democrat candidate, who had been the MP for Brent East which had also been abolished at the general election.
During her time outside of Parliament, she worked creating learning programmes for other companies.
Second term (2015–present).
In 2013, Butler was selected as the Labour candidate for Brent Central at the general election in 2015. Prior to the election, Teather had announced she would stand down from parliament, so she did not contest the seat. Butler was returned to parliament with a majority of more than 19,000 votes.
Butler is a former chair of the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party. Following a vote in September 2016, she was succeeded by Jess Phillips.
2015 leadership election.
Butler supported Andy Burnham in the 2015 Labour Leadership Election. However, she 'lent' her nomination to Jeremy Corbyn to ensure he was on the ballot.
After Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected leader in 2016, Butler was appointed as Labour's Shadow Minister for Diverse Communities in October 2016.
Resignation from Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet.
In February 2017, Butler resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet before the vote on the second reading in the House of Commons of European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2017 which triggered Article 50. The vote carried a three-line whip instructing Labour MPs to vote in favour.
In March 2017, Butler used British Sign Language to ask a question in the House of Commons about giving this language legal recognition. She was reappointed as shadow minister for diverse communities in June 2017. In the same month, she launched a new cross-party parliamentary group, the Parliamentary Black Caucus, concerned with ethnic minority issues.
Return to the Shadow Cabinet.
In August 2017, following the resignation of Sarah Champion, Butler became the Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities. In February 2018 she appointed businessman Anthony Watson as an LGBT+ advisor.
In September 2018, she argued that the actions of the Militant-dominated Liverpool City Council in the early 1980s could be an inspiration for current Labour councils faced with public sector funding constraints. In the same month, Butler was promoted to a Shadow Secretary of State title, as it was announced that Women and Equalities would be upgraded to a full government department under a Labour government.
2020 deputy leadership election.
Butler was reelected in the 2019 general election. Butler became the first candidate to declare candidacy in the 2020 Labour Party deputy leadership election. She has been described as one of Corbyn's "closest allies" and often sat by his side on the opposition frontbench in Parliament. Butler ultimately received 50,255 (10.9%) of first preference ballots, the least of the five candidates, eliminating her from the contest and seeing her second preference votes redistributed to the remaining candidates, with Angela Rayner ultimately winning the contest. In an interview in August 2020, she was critical of the large costs involved in campaigning in the deputy leadership election, stating that she doesn't think "you should be having an internal election that means you have to spend a lot of money".
Return to the backbenches.
Following the election of Keir Starmer as Leader of the Labour Party, Butler was not reappointed to the new Shadow Cabinet in a cabinet reshuffle and was succeeded by Marsha de Cordova.
In July 2020, Butler was forced to close her constituency office due to increased costs of maintains premises, and alleged escalating racist threats towards her and her staff, which increased following an article she wrote defending Black Lives Matter protests in the UK.
In an interview with "The Guardian" published on 4 August 2020, Butler called for the resignation of the Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick, and the end of Stop and Search powers in the UK, which she called "discriminatory".
Butler accused the Metropolitan Police of racial profiling after she was in a car in Hackney which was stopped by police on 9 August 2020, as they wrongly believed the car was registered in North Yorkshire, saying "there’s people who have been coming into the area". Butler then said that this experience shows the Met Police is institutionally racist. The police officers involved admitted they made a mistake and apologised.
Political controversies.
Obama endorsement.
In January 2009, Butler received an endorsement from US President Barack Obama. After initially denying that she, or anyone working in her office, had written it, she later corrected herself and clarified that the endorsement had been written by her staff with the consent of Obama's aides, then signed by Obama when they met.
Expenses.
In March 2009, Butler was criticised for claiming the second home allowance, despite her main home in Stratford being the same distance from Parliament as her Brent South home, however her office stressed that she moved into the Wembley house after being elected in 2005 to allow her to serve her constituents. Following a number of errors in 2005–8, which resulted in a £2,600 overcharge, and after discussion with the Parliamentary Fees Office, most of the overcharge was offset against later expenses; with the remainder repaid. The 2009-10 Review of past ACA payments found no issues affecting her.
Other criticism.
In October 2019, one of Corbyn's advisors accused Butler of homophobia after she said that "90 per cent of giraffes are gay" at the "PinkNews" awards.
In February 2020, Butler was criticised following an interview with Richard Madeley on "Good Morning Britain" during which she stated that: "A child is born without sex". She was taking part in a debate about reactions to updates to Gender Recognition Act 2004 which were proposed by the governing Conservative Party. Butler later clarified that she was referencing gender neutrality, where people can identify as non-binary.
In September 2020, Butler was criticised after she praised, in a tweet later deleted, Extinction Rebellion protestors who blocked the printworks of several major newspapers.
Butler has been criticised for a number of issues concerning her relationship to the UK Jewish community; this includes her failure to sign on to the Board of Deputies’ “Ten pledges to end the antisemitism crisis”.


Anja Bihlmaier

Anja Bihlmaier (born 11 October 1978, Schwäbisch Gmünd) is a German conductor.
Bihlmaier's parents sang in a church choir, and she learned the recorder as a youth. She later studied piano and violin. Her teachers included Roland Baldini, Johannes Pfitzer and Volker Stenzl. She continued piano studies with Elza Kolodin at the "Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Freiburg", from which she graduated in 2003.
Bihlmaier studied conducting with Scott Sandmeier at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, and earned a conducting diploma in 2006. From 2004 to 2005, she held a conducting scholarship at the Mozarteum Salzburg, where she was a pupil of Dennis Russell Davies and Jorge Rotter. From 2005 to 2008, she was part of the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council, and participated in conducting masterclasses with Sian Edwards, Peter Gülke, Günther Herbig, Gunter Kahlert, Kenneth Kiesler, Klauspeter Seibel and Jac van Steen. Other conducting mentors have included Kirk Trevor, Tsung Yeh, Giordano Bellincampi, Karen Kamensek and Antony Hermus.
From 2006 to 2010, Bihlmaier worked as a repetiteur at the Theater Coburg, at the Theater Görlitz, and at the Theater für Niedersachsen Hildesheim. From 2010 to 2013, Bihlmaier worked at the Theater Chemnitz as "Zweite Kapellmeisterin" (Second Kapellmeister) and assistant to the GMD ("Generalmusikdirektor"). From 2013 to 2015, she was "Zweite Kapellmeisterin" of the Staatsoper Hannover. From 2015 to 2018, Bihlmaier served as "Erste Kapellmeisterin" (First Kapellmeister) and deputy GMD of the Staatstheater Kassel. She was the second titled female conductor in the history of the Staatstheater Kassel.
In July 2017, Bihlmaier conducted the St Margarethen Opera Festival production of "Rigoletto", the first female conductor in the festival's history. In November 2018, Bihlmaier first-guest conducted the Residentie Orchestra ("Residentie Orkest"). She first guest-conducted the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in December 2018. In May 2019, the Residentie Orkest announced the appointment of Bihlmaier as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2021-2022 season. This appointment marks her first chief conductorship. Bihlmaier is the first female conductor to be named chief conductor of the Residentie Orkest, and the second female conductor to be named chief conductor of any Dutch orchestra. In September 2019, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra announced the appointment of Bihlmaier as its next principal guest conductor, effective with the 2020-2021 season, with an initial contract of 3 seasons. She is the first female conductor named to the Lahti post.


Erica Muhl

Erica Muhl (born October 26, 1961) is an American composer and conductor who has been dean of the USC Iovine and Young Academy since July 2018. She formerly served as dean of the University of Southern California Roski School of Art and Design in Los Angeles from 2012 to 2018, and prior to that was associate dean and professor of composition at the Thornton School of Music. She received an Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999.
Early life.
Erica Muhl grew up in Los Angeles, where her father Edward Muhl was the head of Universal Pictures from 1953 to 1973, and her mother, Barbara, an author and opera singer. She trained as both a composer and a conductor, with much of her studies completed in Europe. At sixteen she was invited to take part in private composition studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.
She returned from Europe in order to complete a Bachelor of Music, but upon completion, she once again traveled while undergoing graduate studies at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. She studied conducting in Los Angeles with Fritz Zweig. This was followed by the completion of a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Southern California in 1991.
Career.
Muhl's elegy for string orchestra "Disinherited Souls", in remembrance of the victims of the Shoah, was commissioned by the New Jewish Chamber Philharmonic Dresden. Its premiere was at the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, in November 2010.
Another commission, "Burn the Box", also premiered in 2010, at a private gala in celebration of the inauguration of USC President C. L. Max Nikias. Further recent premieres have included the concert overture "Smoke and Mirrors", for large orchestra, conducted in Los Angeles by the Memphis Symphony's music director, Mei-Ann Chen; and two new chamber works. 2009 saw the Dresden and Berlin premieres of her "Trucco for String Orchestra". In 2005, the premiere of her chamber work, "...to a Thin Edge" (commissioned and performed by the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York City) was performed. Other recent appearances include the premiere of her symphonic work, "Fleet", which she conducted at Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's "Sounds About Town" series.
Muhl has served as Assistant Conductor for Los Angeles Opera Theater, for Seattle Opera's regular season, and the Seattle Pacific Northwest Wagner Festival’s complete "Der Ring des Nibelungen".
In 2015, two years into her tenure as Dean of the Roski School of Art & Design, the entire graduate class of 2016 (seven students) withdrew from the school's MFA program, accusing Muhl's administration of "dismantling" the faculty, curriculum, program structure and strong support for graduate studies that had been hallmarks of the program. Curriculum changes in the program have been blamed for the departure of at least one tenured faculty member. Muhl issued a response in the school's website saying she was saddened by the students' decision to leave the program over issues the school considered to have been resolved. On July 16, 2015, the school's MFA class of 2015 published an open letter to the university president, provost, and board of trustees calling for the removal of Erica Muhl as Dean of the Roski School of Art & Design.
In May of 2013, while serving as Dean of the USC Roski School of Art and Design, Muhl was appointed Founding Director of the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation. The Academy was named USC's 20th professional school in spring of 2018, and Muhl was appointed Dean of the Academy in July of that same year. In October of 2019, USC officially opened Iovine and Young Hall, the school's permanent home.
In October 2020, Muhl was named the new President of Berklee College of Music, beginning her term in July 2021.


Wendy Carrillo

Wendy Maria Carrillo Dono is an American politician serving in the California State Assembly. A Democrat, she represents the 51st State Assembly district, encompassing parts of northeastern Los Angeles and East Los Angeles. She was sworn into office by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon on December 16, 2017. Prior to becoming a member of the California State Assembly, she was a multimedia journalist and labor activist.
Early life and education.
Wendy Carrillo was born in El Salvador on August 10, 1980, the oldest of five daughters. Her mother immigrated to the United States when Carrillo was a child, as she felt it was unsafe to remain in El Salvador due to civil war. Carrillo's mother worked as a babysitter. From this, she was able to save enough money to bring Carrillo, along with Carrillo's grandmother and aunt, to the United States. She moved to Los Angeles at age 5, and grew up in Boyle Heights and City Terrace. She received residency at age 13 after her father petitioned for her. At age 21, she applied to become a naturalized citizen and was granted citizenship.
Carrillo attended Harrison Elementary, El Sereno Middle School and Roosevelt High. She is a graduate of both East Los Angeles College and Cal State Los Angeles. Carrillo earned a master's degree, with an emphasis in demography and politics, from the University of Southern California.
Earlier career.
For ten years, she was the host and executive producer of a community based program called "Knowledge is Power" on KPWR 106 FM. The talk show covered topics such as environmental justice, access to higher education and politics. Carillo also worked as a writer and producer for Nuvo TV. She was also a regular contributor to Pivot's Take Part Live, Huff Post Live, The Young Turks’ The Point and Al Jazeera America.
In 2014, she was the co-founder of now defunct Reported.ly, which was a social media startup that aimed at covering issues of conflict, human rights and political movements. She was also a communications manager for labor union called Local 271, the Los Angeles affiliate of Service Employees International Union.
In 2017, Carrillo announced her intention to run to replace then Congressman Xavier Becerra following his appointment to Attorney General of California. Carrillo ultimately received 5% and lost to then State Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez and attorney Robert Lee Ahn. Gomez defeated Lee Ahn, receiving 60.1% of the vote and was formally sworn in on July 11, 2017.
California State Assembly.
Following Gomez's resignation to be formally seated in the United States House of Representatives, Carrillo announced that she would run to replace Gomez in the California State Assembly. On October 3, 2017, Carrillo received 22.2% of the vote and secured a spot in the general election. Carrillo went onto face Planned Parenthood – Los Angeles board member Luis Lopez. On December 5, 2017, Carrillo defeated Lopez, receiving 53.5% of the vote.
In 2018, Carrillo faced libertarian adjunct professor Christopher Stare. Carrillo easily defeated Stare, receiving 86.6% of the vote.


Eileen Filler-Corn

Eileen Robin Filler-Corn (born June 5, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician currently serving as the 56th Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. Since 2010 she has served in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 41st district in the Fairfax County suburbs of Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She is also the first woman and Jew to serve as Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Personal life.
Filler-Corn was born in New York City and grew up in West Windsor, New Jersey, graduating from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School in 1982. She graduated from Ithaca College, Ithaca NY with a B.A. degree in 1986. She received her J.D. degree from American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC in 1993. In the time between her two college stints, she worked on Democrat Jeff Laurenti's unsuccessful 1986 campaign to defeat incumbent Republican congressman Chris Smith. She and her husband Robert Corn, President of Landmark Strategies, Inc., a national issue advocacy, grassroots engagement and campaign voter contact firm, have two children.
Career.
Filler-Corn served as director of intergovernmental affairs in the administrations of Virginia governors Mark Warner and Tim Kaine. Since 2007 she has been director of government relations at Albers & Company, a national lobbying and consulting firm in Arlington.
On January 1, 2019, Filler-Corn became Leader of the House Democratic Caucus, and was the first woman to lead a caucus in the 400-year history of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Filler-Corn serves as the Chair of the Rules Committee and as Chair of the Joint Rules Subcommittee.
Filler-Corn first ran for the 41st district seat in 1999, but was unsuccessful. She won the seat in a 2010 special election to replace David W. Marsden, who had himself won a special election to the Senate of Virginia the month before. Jim Dillard, the Republican incumbent who defeated Filler-Corn in 1999, endorsed her candidacy in 2010 because of her opponent's remarks that funding for Fairfax County Public Schools was "excessive".
Filler-Corn won by 37 votes. She was sworn in on March 3, 2010, after her opponent dropped his plans to request a recount.
In 2019, Filler-Corn introduced and passed House bills on a variety of issues, from expanding education on the topic of consent in schools to exempting disabled veterans from motor vehicle property tax.
On January 8, 2020, the new Democratic majority elected Filler-Corn Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. She is both the first woman and Jewish person to serve in this position. On November 9, 2019, following elections where the Democratic Party of Virginia won control of the House, the incoming caucus officially nominated her for the position of Speaker in the 161st General Assembly. She began her term as Speaker on January 8, 2020. She is the first woman ever to hold the position, as well as the first Jewish Speaker.
On May 26, 2020, Filler-Corn endorsed Joe Biden for President.
Legislative issues.
In 2019, one of Filler-Corn's top priorities has been preventing gun violence. She and other Democrats formed a “Safe Virginia Initiative” task force, which she co-chairs, to examine the issue.
In response to the refusal by Republican delegates to consider gun control legislation, she has stated that action on gun control must be taken in order to prioritize school safety.
The Virginia Education Association Fund for Children and Public Education has endorsed her because she has consistently voted for legislation supporting public education.


Suzanne Labarge

Suzanne B. Labarge (born 1940) is a Canadian businesswoman, and past chancellor of McMaster University. Labarge is a member of The Coca-Cola Company's board of directors, and was the vice-chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada.
Career.
Labarge was born in Canada. Labarge received a B.A. in Economics from McMaster University, and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Then she worked in the federal public service, including 2 years as assistant auditor general and 8 years in the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions.
She joined the Royal Bank of Canada where she became the first woman to be appointed as a Royal Bank executive in 1979, and Executive Vice-President in 1995. In 1999, she became RBC's Chief Risk Officer. During her time with RBC, she served as the chief risk officer of RBC Capital Markets Corporation and RBC Capital Markets. Labarge served as the chief risk officer of Royal Bank of Canada until September 2004 and its executive vice president and corporate treasurer from 1995 to 1998. Labarge had served as the chief risk officer at RBC Financial Group and the vice chairman at RBC Capital Markets Corporation and RBC Capital Markets. She served as the vice chairman at RBC Financial Group. Labarge served as vice chairman of Royal Bank of Canada until September 2004.
Labarge assumed the role of chancellor at McMaster University on 1 September 2013, and served a three-year term. In the previous year, Labarge contributed C$10 million to the university in an effort to fund inter-disciplinary research into the subject of aging. The university operates the Labarge Optimal Ageing Initiative. In 2007, she had endowed the Raymond and Margaret Labarge Chair in Research and Knowledge Application for Optimal Aging.
Labarge made a second gift to the University in October 2016. This gift, valued at C$15 million, established the Labarge Centre for Mobility in Aging. The focus of the Centre is to fund "interdisciplinary research into ways seniors can live more independently through greater mobility, better health and fitness and increased social connection."


Inger Gamburg

Ingeborg (Inger) Johanne Gamburg née Mohr (1892–1979) was a Danish trade unionist and a member of the Communist Party of Denmark. From 1925, she chaired Arbejderkvinders Oplysningsforening (Women Workers' Enlightenment Association). As a Communist, under the German occupation of Denmark in the Second World War, she was imprisoned in Denmark in June 1941 and later sent to the Stutthof Concentration Camp near Gdansk where she spent 30 months until the German capitulation. From 1946, she was a member of Copenhagen's citizens' representation.
Biography.
Born on 25 January 1892 in Holbæk, Inger Mohr was the daughter of the metal worker August Andreas Søren Mohr (1854–1894) and Ane Sofie Christensen (1859–1909). In 1922, she married Abram Itzik Gamburg (1890–1950), a timber worker from Latvia. The marriage was dissolved in 1933.
Mohr's father, who chaired the Social Democrats in Holbæk, died in an accident when she was just two years old. She and her five siblings were brought up by her mother who died of pneumonia when Mohr was 12. As a result, she first worked as a maid, then as a chocolate factory worker before spending six years working in the Tuborg Brewery. Here she encouraged the women workers to go out on strike but while this led to an increase in wages, she lost her job after a dispute with the union leader, Helga Larsen, who had just been elected to the Folketing. Her next job was at Hellesens Elementfabrik where she worked with coal and graphite.
After her marriage in 1922, Inger Gamburg was increasingly active in the Danish Women Workers' Union (Kvindeligt Arbejderforbunds KAD), becoming secretary of the metal workers section in 1924. Together with Marie-Sophie Nielsen, a communist, in 1925 she established the radical Women Workers' Enlightenment Association (Arbejderkvindernes Oplysningsforening AO) where she became chair. It was the first women's organization in Denmark to call for free abortions. Gamburg also fought for equal pay for men and women, although it did not become part of the organization's official agenda until after the Second World War. One of her closest friends and allies, both in the KAD and the AO was Ragnhild Andersen. In 1928, after attending the Red International of Labor Unions Congress in Moscow, Gamburg joined the Danish Communist Party (DKP). In 1930, together with Marie Nielsen she again visited the Soviet Union and became a member of DKP's central committee and in 1931-1932 of the politburo. After a fight with the trade unionist Alvilda Andersen in the early 1930s, she was thrown out of the KAD but was reinstated in 1938.
Like many other communists, under the German occupation she was arrested in June 1941 and held first in Copenhagen's Vestre Prison and then in Horserød. In October 1943, together with six other women she was transferred to the Stutthof Concentration Camp near Gdansk. Rescued by the Allies at the end of the war in May 1945, she was returned to Denmark, where she was hospitalized for typhus. Six months later, she continued to chair the metal workers section of the KAD, later becoming a member of the organization's executive committee. She also retained her place on the DKP's central committee until 1955. From 1946 to 1958, she was a member of Copenhagen's citizens' representation. She stood for the Folketing several times but was not elected.
Inger Gamburg died in Copenhagen on 29 March 1979 and is buried in Bispebjerg Cemetery.


Margriet Ehlen

Margriet Ehlen (born 28 September 1943) is a Dutch poet, composer, conductor and educator of classical music.
Life and career.
Ehlen was born in Heerlen and has composed for a large variety of instruments, yet is particularly active in composition for voice. These works extend from solo vocalists to choir music. Many of her compositions for voice set poetry to music. To this end she has utilized texts by Gerrit Achterberg, Anna Bijns, Emily Dickinson, Wiel Kusters and Elly de Waard. She is also an accomplished and decorated poet herself.
She studied composition with Gerard Kockelmans, Willem de Vries Robbé and Robert Heppener, piano with Bart Berman and Kees Steinroth and choir conducting with Jan Eelkema. She graduated with a degree in music education from the Maastricht Academy of Music, and taught at teacher colleges in Rotterdam, Maastricht and Sittard.
She has collected and analyzed the works of her former teacher, the Dutch composer Gerard Kockelmans, and written about the composer Jean Lambrechts.
Many of her works were published by Donemus, a not-for-profit Dutch publishing house that promotes contemporary classical composers. Some others were published by the Rieks Sodenkamp publishing house in Maastricht.


Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit, FRHistS (born 15 April 1960) is a British scholar, critic, and writer who specializes in British literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Her work intersects with the fields of history, politics, and philosophy, and she has a special interest in the Godwin-Shelley family of writers.
Biography.
Clemit was born in North Northumberland and educated at the Duchess's Grammar School, Alnwick. She took a first-class B.A. (Hons.) degree in English Language and Literature from Mansfield College, Oxford, from where she also holds an M. Phil. She took a D. Phil in English from St Hugh's College, Oxford.
She taught at Durham University from 1989 to 2015, where she was awarded a Personal Chair in the Department of English in 2005 and held a Christopherson/Knott Foundation Fellowship in 2012-13. She is currently Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London and a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She was a member of the inaugural class of Fellows at the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She has held Visiting Fellowships at, among other places, All Souls College, Oxford; Mansfield College, Oxford; and Wadham College, Oxford.
Clemit works on the two generations of writers and thinkers influenced by the French Revolution in Britain, with a particular focus on the anarchist political philosopher and novelist William Godwin (1756-1836) and his associates. She has produced numerous scholarly and classroom editions of novels, life writing, and other works by Godwin, as well as by Elizabeth Inchbald, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. She is currently editing "The Letters of William Godwin", which is being published in six volumes by Oxford University Press. "Volume I: 1778-1797", for which she held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, was published in 2011, and "Volume II: 1798-1805" in 2014. In 2017 she led a collaborative project to digitise and make publicly available the sole surviving manuscripts of Godwin's principal works, "Political Justice" (1793) and "Caleb Williams" (1794), which are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Images of the manuscripts are available to view on "The" "Shelley-Godwin Archive". She has written on letter writing as a social practice and on scholarly editing as a mode of historical enquiry. She is a regular reviewer for the "Times Literary Supplement" and a contributor to Tom Hodgkinson's "Idler" magazine.
She received the Keats-Shelley Association of America Distinguished Scholar Award for 2016. She is a Fellow of the English Association (2011), and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2019).


Anna Magdalena Godiche

Anna Magdalena Godiche née "Høpfner" (January 11, 1721 – February 22, 1781) was a Danish book printer and publisher. She managed the biggest printing company in contemporary Denmark.
Biography.
Anna Magdalena was born to judge Høpfner in Haderslev. She married Andreas Hartvig Godiche (1714-1769) of Copenhagen in 1736. He owned one of the biggest printing companies in Denmark and was one of those contributing to the expansion of book printing in Denmark in the mid 18th century.
She took over the company as a widow and managed it until her death. Her son was mentally unwell and was not able to manage it. She owned the monopoly of printing and publishing the sentences of the de facto regent Johann Friedrich Struensee and Enevold Brandt, who were famously executed in 1772. She specialized in historical works, and printed Andreas Bussæus's "Frederik 4.s Dagsregistre" (1770), Niels Krag's "Christian IIIs Historie" (1776-79) and "Historiske Efterretninger om velfortiente danske Adelsmænd" (1777-79) by Tycho de Hofman.
After her death, the business was inherited by her daughter Elisabeth Christine Berling, who already managed the printing business and brewery of her late spouse and therefore dissolved it.
Anna Magdalena Godiche was the target of Ewald's well known epigram "Madame G."


Lina Sarmiento

Lina Sarmiento (born 1958) is the first female third-level official of the Philippine National Police to receive and hold the rank of director, a rank equivalent to that of a major general in the Philippine military. At this two-star rank level, Sarmiento became the head of the PNP’s Community Relations Group on June 22, 2012 at the age of 53, a part of the PNP Directorial Staff. Before this post, Sarmiento was a chief superintendent.
Biography.
As a graduate student with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Sarmiento started in her career as policewoman as a forensic chemist in the police service, by joining the Philippine National Police in 1980. She later held other positions in the PNP Crime Laboratory, Directorate for Operations, Police Regional Office and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. She later became Director of the PNP Human Rights Affairs Office and the Police Security and Protection Group. Sarmiento was also a graduate student with a degree in Law. Sarmiento was neither a member of both the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) and the Philippine National Police Academy (PNP Academy).
Personal life.
Sarmiento is married to her husband Avelino. She has four children, namely Mark Alvin, Matthew Allen, April Madeline, and Aylene Marie.


Sarah Hicks

Sarah Hicks (born Tokyo, Japan, raised in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a Japanese-American orchestral conductor. She is Principal Conductor of Live at Orchestra Hall for the Minnesota Orchestra, and Staff Conductor at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Hicks was trained as a violist and pianist, and received a BA magna cum laude in music from Harvard University and an Artist's Degree in conducting from Curtis Institute of Music. She won the Thomas Hoopes Prize for undergraduate theses and the Doris Cohen Levy Prize for conducting at Harvard, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund Scholarship and a Presser Award at Curtis.
She previously served as Associate Conductor of the North Carolina Symphony, Associate Conductor of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Resident Conductor of the Florida Philharmonic, Assistant Conductor of the Reading Symphony and Assistant Conductor of the Philadelphia Singers, the chorus of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She was for five seasons Music Director of the Hawaii Summer Symphony, an ensemble she founded in 1991. After graduating from Curtis, she was for one season assistant conductor to the Verbier Festival Orchestra, training with James Levine.
As a guest conductor, Hicks has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Prime Philharmonic (Seoul, Korea), East Slovak State Opera Theatre, New National Theatre Tokyo, and the Orchestra of Teatro La Fenice.
She has collaborated with Jaime Laredo, Hilary Hahn, Ben Folds, Smokey Robinson, and Sting, for whom she served as conductor on the final leg of his Symphonicities Tour. In June 2012 she conducted the opening concert of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, in a program featuring Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sumi Jo and Jackie Evancho. She has conducted some famous film music scores with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, including masterpieces by Italian composer Ennio Morricone and his "Dollars Trilogy", as well as works by Nino Rota.


Michelle Castelletti

Michelle Castelletti (born 1974) is a Maltese conductor.
Michelle Castelletti has studied at the University of Malta, Canterbury Christ Church University, and New College, University of Oxford. She worked with orchestras such as the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic and Hallé Orchestra. On 26 January 2017, she conducted the world premiere of Reuben Pace's Concertino for Guitar, Harpsichord and Orchestra at Manoel Theatre during the Valletta International Baroque Festival. Castelletti is currently the artistic director of the Malta Arts Festival and the Royal Northern College of Music.


Women in Global Health

Women in Global Health is an organization founded in 2015, with the purpose of bringing together people of all backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership. One of its initiatives is the Women Leaders in Global Health Conference.


Victoria Keon-Cohen

Victoria Keon-Cohen (born 1989) is an Australian fashion model and activist.
Modelling career.
Keon-Cohen started her modelling career at 15 in Australia upon winning the "Girlfriend" magazine model search competition in 2002 (under the stage name Victoria Boston). She has walked the runway for designers such as Chanel, Vogue, Dior, Replay and Armani and appeared in advertising for brands including Levis, David Jones.
Education.
Keon-Cohen was educated at Lauriston Girls' School in Melbourne, Australia class of 2003.
Activism.
In December 2007, Keon-Cohen approached Actors Equity in the UK to represent models for Union protection. Keon-Cohen became a spokesperson for models' rights on behalf of Equity. She was the founding chair of the Equity Models' Committee from 2007 to 2012. The "Guardian" named her in the top 30 names to watch as a new radical and "Marie Claire" magazine described her work as a "pioneering campaign". Working with Equity, the Model Programme was formed, an alliance between the British Fashion Council, Association of Model agencies, the Equity models committee and the Greater London Authority to address the fashion industries health issues and wellbeing of models, including the first Code of Conduct for London Fashion Week. She continues as an active member of the Equity Models Committee and representative in the media. In 2013 Equity announced the first agreement signed with British "Vogue".
Filmography.
In 2011 Keon-Cohen worked as personal costumer to Robert De Niro on the film "Killer Elite". In 2012 she arranged the UK premier screening of "Girl Model", a documentary about the supply chain of young girls from Siberia in to the Japanese modelling market. In 2012 she made her first short film, "Eternal Return", also raising awareness of charity Bipolar UK. Victoria's second film titled A Civilized Life was produced by Oscar winning producer Lawrence Bender and features Dean Winters and Britt Lower. She has received multiple awards including Best Director from the California International Film Festival, Official selection at Oscar qualifying Fickerfest in Australia, Phoenix Film Festival, New York City Independent Film Festival and Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3451861/
Personal life.
Victoria is the youngest of three daughters of prominent Australian barrister Bryan Keon-Cohen QC, junior counsel for the plaintiff in Mabo v Queensland (No 2). Her sister Emily Keon-Cohen also worked as an international fashion model. Victoria was romantically linked with Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers in 2012.


Sanja Bestic

Sanja Bestic (, Sanja Beštić; born June 13, 1982) is a Serbian-American director, writer and producer.
Early life.
Sanja was born in Zemun, Belgrade, Serbia to mother Biljana Gajić Beštić, an artist, and father Branislav Beštić, a soccer player from Belgrade, Yugoslavia (present day Serbia). Her younger brother, Vladimir Beštić, is a former Serbian football player who has since become the head coach at a prestigious football academy in New York City, USA.
Sanja attended Zemun High School ("Zemunska Gimnazija") while simultaneously studying at the renowned theater studio and acting school under the direction of the highly respected theater professor, Mika Aleksić. She pursued theater directing at the "Faculty of Dramatic Arts" at University of Arts in Belgrade under the guidance of Ivana Vujić. While attending a fellowship at the Moving Academy for Performing Arts in Amsterdam, she refined her artistic coaching skills. Sanja worked with the Theater of Shadows and, after moving to New York City in 2004, further expanded her studies at The Michael Chekhov Acting Studio and the Lee Strasburg Institute for Theater and Film.
Personal life.
In 2016, Bestic married her long-time partner Vladimir Berisavac, a lawyer working as a consultant for The World Bank. They have two daughters – Iva, who was born in 2017, and Asja, born in 2018.
Serbian actor Slobodan Beštić is Sanja's uncle.
She studied in the same class with Jana Milić, Viktor Savić and Borka Tomović.
In her career she worked with a lot of Serbian artists, such as Katarina Radivojević, Jana Milić, Sergej Trifunović, Aleksandra Kovač, Marčelo, Luka Mijatović, Ana Milenković, Lejla Hot, Ana Bebić, Sara Jo, Nevena Božović, Verica Rakocević, Veljko Kuzmančević, Nebojša Babić, Miša Obradović.
Career.
While still a student, to propel her career, Sanja worked as assistant director to many well known directors of the former Yugoslavia and Serbia. She has worked with: Dušan Jovanović, Ljubiša Ristić, Slobodan Umnkovski, Aleksandar Popovski, Filip Gajić, Gorčin Stojanović, Egon Savin, Ivana Vujić and Jug Radivojević. Her work as a student also included productions with the Association of Non-Verbal Theaters in Belgrade, Serbia. She was a member of the Svan Theater (the only non-verbal theater where performances were set to music) where she performed and directed one of her plays, "Play Against Violence", showcasing the life and emotions of Serbian people during the Belgrade bombings in 1999.
Sanja's first US premiere was in 2004, when "Canary Soup" by Miloš Radović was performed at The Kraine Theater (an off-Broadway theater located in New York City's East Village) featuring renowned Serbian actor Sergej Trifunović in his NYC debut, as well as Natalie Rodić. Her focus on Balkan classics and modern dramas allowed her to introduce Eastern European writers to the American audience. In a 2010 interview, Sanja stated that ""The Weeping Game" is a timeless classic Serbian piece" which she wished to introduce to American audiences. Additionally, Sanja has also directed American classics and modern dramas, such as "Sidetracked" (her fifth Off-Broadway play) by John Pastore at the Abingdon Theater in 2011, "The Tiger" by Murray Schisgal and "Want & Need" by John Krisiukenas at Payan Theater in New York City in 2012.
She has produced and directed a number of off-Broadway shows, including "Therapy" by Jordan Cvetanovic, produced by KinoKamera Inc. Sanja has also directed "Touch my Knees" by David Albahari, "The Government Inspector" by Nikolai V. Gogol, "Two Fools in Love" by Duško Radović, and "Painkillers" by Neda Radulovic, "The Doll" by (Miro Gavran, Storefront + BenchProductions, The Local Theater NYC 2012 ), and "All About Women" (Miro Gavran, Storefront + BenchProductions, The Local Theater, NYC 2012).
In May, 2013 she wrapped up "Tesla", written by British award-winning playwright Sheri Graubert and produced by Entertainers UK, formerly EasyTheaters Productions based in London. "Tesla" premiered in May, 2013 in New York City, telling a story about one of the most respected Serbian-American scientists in the world. The play moved to London's West End. This project was highly supported by The Tesla Science Foundation and Office for Cooperation with Diaspora and Serbs in the Region.
Aside from theater, Sanja has also worked in advertising, directed television commercials and short films. Her work has included TV commercials for Henkel (German), Société Générale (French), and Vegeta (Podravka) (Croatia). Additionally, she has worked for Iteam Events and Skymusic Production (Skymusic Corporation), international marketing and event-planning agencies, where she directed and produced stage and corporate events, festivals and concerts at various theaters, ballrooms, and other venues. She is also actively involved in humanitarian work. Sanja is an Executive Producer at Digital Mind.
Sanja entered into an exclusive partnership with the media company KinoKamera Inc in 2009 and Storefront + Bench in 2011 as their sole theater director. In 2010, Sanja co-founded The Local Theater NYC, a non-profit, multicultural, interdisciplinary art gallery committed to the research, production, presentation, and interpretation of contemporary art. In 2012, Sanja started Art Fusion Project (AFP) in Belgrade, Serbia, which is an international multimedia art movement.
The AFP's mission is to support creativity through education, management, and exposure for artists on a global level.
Sanja is the associate producer for the web series "Catch-30". Bestic did an Off-Broadway play titled "Jackie and Marilyn" in the spring of 2014 at Theatre Row (New York City) with Lorraine Farris Sage as Jackie Kennedy and Lella Satie as Marilyn Monroe.
In 2018, Sanja joined VR All Art AG, a company based in Switzerland, as a Strategy Director. VR All Art AG was founded by Vitomir Jevremović and Alexander Fürer in 2017.
Awards.
In 2013, Sanja Bestic was nominated and won an award by the Tesla Science Foundation, a result of her great efforts to promote the life and work of scientist Nikola Tesla through her theater and film project "Tesla".


Barbara Roche

Barbara Maureen Roche ("née" Margolis; born 13 April 1954) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hornsey and Wood Green from 1992 until 2005, when she lost the seat, despite having previously enjoyed a majority of over 20,000.
Family and education.
The daughter of Barnet and Hanna Margolis, Roche was educated at the Jews Free School, Camden Town and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). She trained to be a barrister and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1977.
Political career.
She first stood for Parliament in the 1984 Surrey South-West by-election, before standing in Hornsey and Wood Green in 1987.
First elected to Parliament in 1992, she saw her majority soar to 20,500 in 1997 (including polling 26,000 votes more than the Liberal Democrats' candidate, Lynne Featherstone, who eventually unseated her). However, by 2001 her majority had almost halved to 10,500, and in 2005 she unexpectedly lost her seat on a large 14.6% swing.
Her association with the crucial 26 March 2003 vote on the war on Iraq was cited as a factor in her defeat.
Roche has subsequently been linked to the Blair government's "mass immigration" policy. A local newspaper described her in 2005 as "a fiercely loyal Labour MP, who has only rebelled against the Government in four out of 1,570 votes."
During her time in Government, she held several ministerial offices; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry, 1997–1998; Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1999; Minister of State for Asylum and Immigration, Home Office, 1999–2001; Cabinet Office, 2001–2002; Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2002–2003.
After Parliament.
After her defeat in 2005, and prior to the 2010 general election, she attempted to re-enter the Commons, seeking the Labour Party nomination (and being shortlisted) in the 'safe' Labour seats of Stockton North, Houghton & Sunderland South, Wigan, and Stalybridge & Hyde but was not selected for any of them, despite the support of the Labour-affiliated Unite union.
Personal life.
Roche is an avid theatre-goer and reader of detective fiction.


Esther Liebmann

Esther Liebmann (née Schulhoff; 1649 – 15 April 1714) was a German financier. In Berlin, she served as Court Jew to King Friedrich I of Prussia, inheriting the title and also the Münzregal from her second husband, Jost Liebmann. She served as court jeweler, assisting the king in obtaining a large collection of gems and jewelry. When her husband was living, the couple worked together and were some of the most well-to-do Jews in Berlin. After Liebmann's husband's death in 1701, she carried on their business and became responsible for minting official coinage for the crown. In her lifetime, she was known as the most powerful woman in the country.


Bertha M. Goudy

Bertha Matilda Sprinks Goudy (September 6, 1869 – October 21, 1935) was an American typographer, fine press printer, and co-proprietor with Frederic W. Goudy of the Village Press from 1903 until her death in 1935.
Early life.
Bertha Matilda Sprinks was born September 6, 1869 in Jersey City, New Jersey. She was employed as a bookkeeper in Chicago at the office of the financial broker Richard Coe Allen, where she met Frederic W. Goudy in 1890. They were married on June 2, 1897 in Berwyn, Illinois.
Career.
In 1903, the Goudys founded the Village Press with Will Ransom in Oak Park, Illinois. After the first year of operation, Ransom left the partnership. Bertha was the principal typesetter for the next 32 years. The Village Press's first production was "Printing," an essay by William Morris and Emery Walker, in keeping with the proprietors' dedication to Morris-style Arts and Crafts aesthetics and philosophy. They moved the press the following year to Hingham, Massachusetts, and in 1906 to New York City. Following a disastrous studio fire in 1908, Frederic Goudy increasingly specialized in type design, and Bertha Goudy took over the business of the press. He wrote and illustrated and she typeset two works now considered classics of lettering design: "The " and . The final move of the press was in 1924, to Marlborough-on-Hudson, New York, to a house with an adjacent mill, which the Goudys called Deepdene. Bertha Goudy was widely recognized during this period as the driving force behind the Village Press, and in 1933, "Time" Magazine called her "the world's ablest woman printer." The American Institute of Graphic Arts recognized her achievements alongside those of her husband's in an exhibition honoring the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Village Press in 1933. One of her final and most demanding works was Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", for the Limited Editions Club, published in 1934.
Death and tributes.
Bertha Goudy suffered a stroke in December 1933, from which she only partially recovered. She died on October 21, 1935.
Following her death, a number of colleagues and friends memorialized Bertha Goudy's contributions to typography. Spearheaded by Edna Beilenson, co-proprietor of the Peter Pauper Press, a group of women active in fine press and book making collaborated to produce a feminist work entitled "Bookmaking on the Distaff Side," published in 1937. Beilenson, Jane Grabhorn, Bruce Rogers, and others contributed, and convinced Frederic Goudy to include a memorial to his wife, which he later published separately as "Bertha M. Goudy: Recollections by One Who Knew Her Best" (Marlboro, NY: The Village Press, 1939), and set in "Bertham" type. He had named his hundredth typeface, "Bertham", in honor of his wife ("Bertha M."). Female members of the same group of friends formed the Distaff Press, which later republished selections from "Bookmaking on the Distaff Side", along with additional contributions, to produce "Bertha S. Goudy: First Lady of Printing" in 1958. This "remembrance of the distaff side of the Village Press" was issued as a fine press, limited edition publication, in the spirit of Bertha Goudy's own private press productions, hand-bound and hand-printed.


Han-na Chang

Han-Na Chang (Korean: 장한나 ; born December 23, 1982) is a South Korean conductor and cellist.
Born in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, Chang began studying piano at age 3, and began to study the cello at the age of 6. In 1993, her family moved to the United States, where she was enrolled in the pre-college division of the Juilliard School. In 1993, she attended Mischa Maisky's masterclasses in Siena, Italy, and continued to study with him privately. In 1994, she competed in the Fifth Rostropovich International Cello Competition, and was awarded both the First Prize as well as the Contemporary Music Prize. Chang subsequently studied privately with Mstislav Rostropovich. In 1995, she made her debut recording of Tchaikovsky's "Variations on a Rococo Theme" and Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 1 with Rostropovich conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. In addition to studies at Juilliard, Chang read philosophy at Harvard University.
Chang subsequently developed an interest in conducting, and studied conducting with James DePreist. She made her professional conducting debut in Korea in 2007. In 2009, she founded the Absolute Classic Festival, based in Gyeonggi Province, Korea, with a focus on young musicians, and serves as its artistic director. Chang made her UK conducting debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra in January 2012, and conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for the first time in February 2012. She has now shifted her musical focus to conducting, away from cello performances.
Chang first guest-conducted the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra in June 2012. In December 2012, the orchestra named her its next music director. She led the orchestra in its first-ever appearance at The Proms on 7 September 2014. The next day, 8 September 2014, Chang resigned the music directorship of the orchestra, with immediate effect, citing 'persistent administrative difficulties and irreconcilable artistic differences with the management'.
Chang became principal guest conductor of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra as of the 2013-2014 season. In March 2016, the orchestra announced the appointment of Chang as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2017-2018 season. She is the first female conductor to be named chief conductor of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra. In November 2018, the orchestra announced the extension of Chang's contract as chief conductor through the 2022-2023 season.
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Gracia Martore

Gracia C. Martore is the former president and CEO of Tegna, Inc. and was CEO of the predecessor Gannett Company before its split. She was succeeded by Dave Lougee on 1 June 2017. She replaced Craig Dubow on 6 October 2011.
She serves on the Board of Directors of FM Global and MeadWestvaco Corporation.
Education and early career.
Martore graduated from Wellesley College in 1973 with a double major in history and political science. While at Wellesley she was named a Scholar for academic excellence. She worked for 12 years in the banking industry before joining Gannett. In 2010 Ms. Martore's total compensation was estimated by Forbes to be over eight million dollars.
Awards.
In a 2011 review of the world's most powerful women Martore was cited by Forbes. She was also named one of Washington's 100 Most Powerful Women by "Washingtonian Magazine". Institutional Investor magazine named her one of the best CFOs in America and ranked her the Best CFO in America in the publishing and advertising agencies category for three years in a row (2004, 2005 and 2006). The "Washington Post" named her one of the top 10 female executives at major companies in the Washington region. In 2006 she was named CFO of the Year by Virginia Business.


Ernestina Herrera de Noble

Ernestina Laura Herrera de Noble (June 7, 1925 – June 14, 2017) was a prominent Argentine publisher and executive. She was the largest shareholder of the Grupo Clarín media conglomerate and director of the flagship "Clarín" newspaper. She was the first woman to become director of a mainstream newspaper in South America.
Life and times.
Ernestina Laura Herrera was born in Buenos Aires in 1925. She became a Flamenco dancer and met the founding publisher of "Clarín", Roberto Noble, around 1950. The two maintained a sporadic relationship until Noble and his wife, Guadalupe Zapata, were divorced in the early 1960s. She and the publisher were married in 1967; Roberto Noble died of cancer on January 12, 1969.
As his widow, she inherited a controlling stake in "Clarín", Argentina's most widely circulated newspaper since 1965. Despite its large circulation, however, "Clarín" suffered financial difficulties when Mrs. Noble inherited the director's post. She turned to one of the late Roberto Noble's most prominent allies, economist and wholesaler Rogelio Julio Frigerio, who lent "Clarín" US$10 million, in 1971. The paper continued to endorse Frigerio's centrist MID platform, which centered on government support for infrastructure investment and import substitution industrialization. On Frigerio's advice, Mrs. Noble brought in Héctor Magnetto, who took charge of the newspaper's finances.
The periodical's finances were further bolstered early in Mrs. Noble's tenure by a 1977 partnership established with its main competitors, "La Nación" and "La Razón", and the Argentine State in Papel Prensa - the largest domestic newsprint manufacturer. Under her leadership, "Clarín" extended its reach into Argentine media, purchasing two second-ranked outlets, Radio Mitre and Channel 13, in 1990, Multicanal Cable TV in 1992, and other stations and magazines. She extended the partnership with "La Nación" by leading "Clarín" into a joint wire service, "Diarios y Noticias" (DyN), in 1982, and into a holding company in 1997, Cimeco S.A., which obtained majority stakes in numerous regional newspapers (notably "Los Andes" of Mendoza and "La Voz del Interior" of Córdoba). Controlled by Mrs. Noble and the paper's longtime directors, Héctor Magnetto, José Antonio Aranda and Lucio Rafael Pagliaro, Grupo Clarín was established from these holdings in 1999 as the most important media conglomerate in Argentina.
These successes were accompanied by numerous controversies surrounding her personally, however. She has maintained a long-standing probate dispute with Roberto Noble's only offspring, Guadalupe Noble, who was born in 1958 during his marriage to Guadalupe Zapata. Mrs. Noble arrived at a partial settlement of the dispute with Guadalupe Noble, though the matter of the controlling stake in Grupo Clarín remains pending.
Mrs. Noble was detained in December 2002 by order of Judge Roberto Marquevich following a lawsuit filed by the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo alleging that the two infants she adopted in 1976, Marcela and Felipe, should submit DNA samples on the possibility that their biological parents may have been abducted by the last dictatorship during their Dirty War against dissidents. Her request to deny the samples was ruled in her favor in June 2008, though the case remains in litigation. On October 17, 2009, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner proposed the compulsory submission of DNA samples in cases related to crimes against humanity, in a move lauded by the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, but excoriated by opposition figures as a political move against Mrs. Noble amid the controversies between Clarín and Kirchnerism that first arose in 2008.
Similar motives are alleged by the opposition against the presidentially sponsored Media Law, which would restrict the number of media licenses per proprietor and allocate a greater share of these to state and NGOs, thereby limiting the influence of the Clarín Group. The hitherto cordial relations between Mrs. Noble and Kirchnerism was further strained by a federal lawsuit filed by the executive branch alleging that the 1977 purchase of Papel Prensa had been illegally arranged. She was declared innocent in the Papel Prensa case in 2016.
She died on June 14, 2017, aged 92.


Karen Gorden

Karen Gorden is a conductor and music director for symphony, opera, and contemporary classical music.
Musical life and career.
Gorden’s conducting career is associated with significant musical centres in Europe, the United States, and Asia such as the Staatsoper Berlin, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai, India.
Known as "a musician's conductor", Gorden has also been consistently welcomed by a wide and diverse international audience. She is an outspoken advocate for global accessibility and sustainability for the arts, which led her to found FORCULTURE in 2014.

Gorden is a graduate, with top honors, of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon and the Yale University School of Music. Her contributions to music have been recognized with the Special Jury Prize from the 50th Concours International d'Exécution Musicale for Conductors, the Prix Nadia Boulanger in France, and the Opera Award at the State Theatre Opava in the Czech Republic.


Alice Horan

Alice Horan (1895 – 1971) was a British trade unionist.
Born in London, Horan was the oldest child of nine. She began working at the age of fourteen in a stationery factory, then became a dressmaker. During World War I, she worked in a factory making equipment for the armed forces, and while there she joined the National Federation of Women Workers.
Horan soon became a shop steward and got to know Mary Macarthur. She won a scholarship to Ruskin College, where she obtained a diploma in political science. In 1926, she found a full-time post as the Lancashire Women's District Officer for the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (NUGMW). She proved successful at recruiting to the union, and in 1946 was promoted to become the union's National Women's Officer.
Horan was also active in the Labour Party, serving on its National Executive Committee from 1951 until 1958.