Toni Basil

Antonia Christina Basilotta (born September 22, 1943), better known by her stage name Toni Basil, is an American singer, actress, choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker, best known for her multi-million-selling worldwide 1981/2 smash hit "Mickey," which topped the charts in the US, Canada and Australia and hit the top ten in several other countries. She has collaborated with David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Talking Heads (choreographing and co-directing the acclaimed video for "Once in a Lifetime"), the Monkees, Frank Sinatra, George Lucas, Quentin Tarantino, Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks, Bette Midler, and The Muppets.
Early life.
Basil was born Antonia Christina Basilotta in Philadelphia. Her mother, Jacqueline Jessica Anderson, was a vaudevillian acrobatic comedienne in her family's act "Billy Wells and The Four Fays." Her father, Louis Basilotta, was an orchestra leader who conducted orchestras at the Chicago Theatre and at the Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, among other locations.
While her family was living in Las Vegas where Antonia attended high school, she was one of the sports cheerleaders for the Las Vegas High School Wildcats, and graduated as part of the class of 1961. Already known by the nickname "Toni" by this time, she later incorporated her cheerleading experience into her dance career, including her choreography/performance of "Mickey". The cheerleader uniform that she wore in the video was a redesigned version of the one she wore in high school.
Career.
Dance career.
Basil started dancing professionally in childhood, but her career started when she served as an assistant choreographer to David Winters and as a dancer on "Shindig!" a breakthrough music variety show that premiered on the ABC network in 1964. In addition, she was assistant choreographer and a dancer on the 1964 concert film "The T.A.M.I. Show" (Teen-Age Music International) choreographed by David Winters, which featured fellow dancer and friend Teri Garr. Some of her 1960s film choreography work include "Village of the Giants" (1965), "The Cool Ones" (1967), and the Monkees' 1968 film "Head" in which she is partnered on-screen with Davy Jones during "Daddy's Song." She was also a lead dancer in the 1964 beach party film "Pajama Party".
In 1980, Basil choreographed, and co-directed with David Byrne, the music video for "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads. She worked with Talking Heads again to direct and choreograph the video for the song "Crosseyed and Painless", taken from the same album "Remain in Light". She choreographed David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs Tour" in 1974, his "Glass Spider Tour" in 1987, and his video for "Time Will Crawl." She has worked with Bette Midler for many years, including her 2008/2009 Las Vegas show "The Showgirl Must Go On." She served as the associate director and choreographer of the worldwide "" in 2008/2009. Her expertise as a choreographer led her to be invited to sit as a guest judge on season four and five of Fox Broadcasting Company's "So You Think You Can Dance?" In addition, she is credited with bringing street dance to prominence as a founding member and manager of The Lockers.
Her film choreography through the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s include "American Graffiti" (1973), "The Rose" (1979), "Peggy Sue Got Married" (1986), "Something to Talk About" (1995), "That Thing You Do" (1996), "My Best Friend's Wedding" (1997), "Legally Blonde" (2001), "" (2003), "Charlie Wilson's War" (2007), and "The House Bunny" (2008).
Basil is one of the seven original Lockers, the street dance group considered "the group that changed the face of dance." She is recognized as having been a seminal influence in bringing street dance to the attention of the American public. A 2012 "Dance Magazine" article cited Basil as the pioneer in merging ballet with street dance for a piece she choreographed for "Saturday Night Live," "Swan Lake" in 1978.
The Lockers opened and toured with Frank Sinatra, including performances at Carnegie Hall. They opened for Funkadelic at Radio City Music Hall and many acts in Las Vegas, and made countless television appearances including the third episode of "Saturday Night Live."
Basil choreographed the TV Land Awards salute to "Soul Train" in 2005, as well as the TV Land Awards salute to Sid and Marty Krofft in 2009.
Basil choreographed Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" at the age of 75, and appeared in an uncredited cameo, wearing her trademark fedora and dancing with Margot Robbie on the Pan Am flight. She said she was surprised by Tarantino's detailed knowledge of both '60s dances and her previous work. She also said she personally knew two of the real-life people who are portrayed in the film: Sharon Tate and Jay Sebring, who were both killed in the Tate-LaBianca murders.
Music career.
Basil's recording career began in 1966 with a single for A&M Records which was the title song from the short film "Breakaway", and the B-side was "I'm 28" written by Graham Gouldman who later co-founded 10cc. This film was made by artist Bruce Conner. Basil was asked to sing, solo, the swinging jazz number "Wham Rebop Boom Bam" in the first season of "Saturday Night Live" for the January 17, 1976, show with Buck Henry as host. Toni sold out solo shows at The Roxy in Los Angeles in June 1976, and sang the song on "The Merv Griffin Show". She also guested with The Lockers during the first season of "Saturday Night Live" and, on later seasons, as a singer and filmmaker, to perform in her urban style "Swan Lake".
In 1982 she released the single "Mickey", which achieved international success. This song is a cover of "Kitty", a 1979 release by the UK band Racey, which was written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, with the latter also producing it. The original song did not include the famous "Oh Mickey, you're so fine" chant, which Basil added. The video was conceived, directed, and choreographed by Basil herself for the UK-based label Radialchoice, before the inception of MTV in July 1981. Issued on Chrysalis Records in September 1982 in the US, the song knocked Lionel Richie from No. 1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in December. It also topped the chart in Canada where it was issued by Virgin Records. The 45 was quickly certified Gold and in early 1983 reached Platinum status for sales of over 2 million copies in the United States alone. The music video for "Mickey" was one of the most popular early MTV videos. In the video, Basil wore her head cheerleader uniform from Las Vegas High School from which she graduated over two decades before (she was 39 when the song topped the US charts for a week in December 1982). During an interview on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of The 80's", Basil said that she still owns the same cheerleader sweater she wore in the video. In 2009, VH1 ranked "Mickey" Number 5 on its list of the 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the '80s. In 2017 she sued the makers of South Park over their use of the song in parodying Barack Obama's 2008 election win.
For television, Basil has appeared as an actress and featured singer/dancer in many television shows and specials. She co-directed and choreographed two BBC specials with Alan Walsh and Ken Stephenson called "Toni Basil Tape 1" and "Toni Basil Tape 2".
Basil's recording career consists of only two albums. Her first album, 1982's "Word of Mouth", included a second Hot 100 single "Shoppin' from A to Z", as well as three songs by Devo, with the group providing the backing track. The track "Space Girls" was a re-recording of a 1974 Devo demo titled "Space Girl Blues" that was later released on Devo's "Hardcore Devo: Volume One". Devo member Gerald Casale and Basil were in a relationship at the time, and Basil had been an early supporter of the group.
"Toni Basil" (1983), her eponymous second album, yielded a third and final Hot 100 charting single, "Over My Head", which reached No. 4 on the U.S. Dance chart. Her song "Girls Night Out" appeared on the 1986 movie soundtrack "Modern Girls". To date, there have been five Toni Basil best of collections released on CD. In 1999, DJ and producer Jason Nevins's dance remix of "Mickey" was a club hit in Europe and Australia.
Basil contributed vocals for the Devo song "The Only One" in 1987, part of the soundtrack of the flop horror film "Slaughterhouse Rock", which Basil also starred in. The song was not released until 2000 on the demo compilation "Recombo DNA".
Acting career.
As an actress, Basil started off in the films "Easy Rider" and "Five Easy Pieces". Some of her other films are "The Last Movie" (directed by Dennis Hopper), "Greaser's Palace" (directed by Robert Downey, Sr.), "Mother, Jugs & Speed", "Village of the Giants", "Rockula" (with Thomas Dolby) and "Slaughterhouse Rock". On TV, she has appeared in episodes of "Laverne & Shirley", "Dark Justice", and in "Baywatch Nights" as a fortune teller.
Film making and music videos.
Basil directed short art films including "Game of the Week", "A Dance Film", "Out Trip", and "The Ping Pong Match". Predating music videos, these avant garde pieces found a new audience and were exhibited at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, and New York University's Grey Art Gallery. The Los Angeles Times noted Basil's deft editing transformed an ordinary ping pong match into an energetic dance routine.[citation needed]
Basil's "Word of Mouth" video album was nominated for both a Grammy Award and an MTV Video Music Award.
Basil's late 1960s 8 mm and 16 mm films toured the U.S. with the show "Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle" in 2007.
Aside from directing her own video for "Mickey," she also directed and choreographed the video for Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime." The video features lead singer David Byrne against a white background in a style similar to "Mickey."
Awards and accolades.
Basil's awards include Hip Hop International's Living Legend Award, a Grammy nomination for Long Form Video ("Word of Mouth") 1983, an Emmy nomination and win for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for "The Smothers Brothers" in 1988, two MTV Award nominations, American Choreography Awards: four nominations and two wins including Lifetime Achievement Innovator, and The Los Angeles Theater Ovation: Street Dance Award. Exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art: Videos, and the Santa Monica Museum of Art: Short Films. She has also received platinum and gold discs in the US, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Philippines, and France. Her single "Mickey" was installed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the groundbreaking singles of the 1980s. She was given tribute at , Monsters of Hip-Hop Masters of Movement, and in Portraits of America's Great Choreographers. She was featured in the Museum of Modern Art Calendar of Artists and on the cover of "Dance Magazine".
On January 25, 2012, Basil presented The Electric Boogaloos with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th anniversary show of "" for their role in popularizing dance styles such as popping and electric boogie.


Shelley Mayer

Shelley Mayer (born March 6, 1952) is a Democratic member of the New York State Senate representing the 37th Senate District, which includes portions of Westchester County. Formerly a member of the New York State Assembly, Mayer was first elected in a special election in 2018.
Background.
Born and raised in Yonkers, Mayer went on to receive her B.A. at University of California, Los Angeles, and later her J.D. at the University at Buffalo Law School.
Prior to her election to public office, Mayer was a Senior Counsel at the National State Attorney General Program at Columbia University, where she focused on health care and labor law rights. From 2007 until early 2011, Shelley worked as Chief Counsel to the New York State Senate Conference in Albany.
For over seven years, she served as Vice President of Government and Community Affairs at Continuum Health Partners in New York City. From 1982 to 1994, Mayer served as an Assistant Attorney General in the office of New York Attorney General Bob Abrams. She served in the Civil Rights Bureau, as Chief of the Westchester Regional Office, as the legislative liaison for the Attorney General and ultimately as a senior advisor to the Attorney General.
In 2006, Mayer made her first run for public office, losing a bid for the New York State Assembly to incumbent Republican Mike Spano. Spano later went on to change parties, ran for Mayor of Yonkers in 2011 as a Democrat, and won.
Mayer was first elected to the New York State Assembly on March 20, 2012, in a special election to succeed Mike Spano, and was re-elected three times.
Mayer lives in Yonkers with her husband, Lee Smith, with whom she has three adult children.
New York Senate.
Mayer was elected to the State Senate in a special election held on April 24, 2018 after the office was vacated by Westchester County Executive George Latimer. Mayer appeared on the Democratic, Working Families, and Women's Equality Party lines and won by a margin of 57% to 43%. Mayer attributed the win to a "'big tent blue wave' that brought together progressives, Democrats, union groups and female activists."
Later in 2018, despite the district being deemed competitive by pundits, Mayer was unopposed for a full-term. With Democrats retaking the majority, Mayer is serving as Chair of Committee on Education.


Clara James

Clara Grace James (30 October 1866 – 10 August 1954) was a British trade unionist.
Born in Deptford, then in Kent, James's parents died when she was young, and she was brought up by a former employee of her father. She found work making confectionery, and in 1889 she joined the Women's Trade Union Association (WTUA). As a result, she was sacked from her job, but the WTUA helped her find work as a typist, while she volunteered as an organiser and assistant secretary of the WTUA. Its activist Amie Hicks provided her with accommodation and legally adopted James as her daughter.
Through the WTUA, James founded the Confectioners' Union, and served as its general secretary. She worked with Clementina Black and John Burns to win a strike among chocolate makers in 1890, but the union faced high levels of opposition from employers and a highly mobile workforce, leading to its decline and dissolution in 1892. Thereafter, James focused her efforts on trying to organise box-makers. Lilian Gilchrist Thompson paid the WTUA £70 a year for two years to employ James as an investigator.
James and Hicks were the only two women to give evidence to the 1891 Royal Commission on Labour. James also served as a delegate to the London Trades Council, and for a time was the only woman to do so.
The WTUA was refounded in 1894 as the Women's Industrial Council (WIC), and James remained active within it, serving on both its investigation and organisation committees. However, with her sponsorship having concluded, Thompson instead paid for her training as a gymnastics teacher. Once she had completed this, James set up a series of "Working Girls' Clubs", providing lectures, physical drills, social meetings and citizenship classes. These proved popular, and in 1899 the WIC founded the Clubs Industrial Association to formalise this activity. Among the young women who attended her classes was Margaret Bondfield.
James eventually left the Clubs Industrial Association, founding the rival Working Girls at Play organisation, which by 1909 organised 22 regular clubs across London. She began suffering from poor health and had to give up teaching, retiring to Canvey Island. There, she served as a parish councillor, and ran a holiday home for working girls from London.


Annis Bertha Ford Eastman

Annis Bertha Ford Eastman (1852–1910) was an American Congregational minister, and one of the first women in the United States to be ordained. She ministered at several churches in New York State, including Park Church in Elmira. She was a popular speaker, as well. In 1893, she spoke at the Congress of Women, held at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. She presented at the National Council of Women of the United States in 1895.
Early life and marriage.
Annis Bertha Ford was born on April 24, 1852 in Peoria, Illinois. Her father, George W. Ford, was a gunsmith. Her mother, Catherine, née Stehley, stayed at home to raise her children. Ford attended Oberlin College, and graduated with a certificate in teaching in 1874. She met Samuel Elijah Eastman at Oberlin, where he was studying to be a clergyman, and they married in 1875. They had four children: Morgan Eastman (who died as a young child of scarlet fever), Anstice Ford Eastman, Crystal Eastman, and Max Eastman.
In the early years of her marriage, Eastman and her family moved to various locations where her husband was serving as minister. These included: Swampscott, Massachusetts; Newport, Kentucky; and Canandaigua, New York. By 1886, his health had deteriorated, and Eastman began teaching school to help make ends meet.
Ordained ministry.
In 1887, Eastman began serving as a licensed preacher at the Congregational Church in Brookton, New York. She was ordained in 1898, making her one of only a handful of women who had received ordination in the United States at this point in time. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Olympia Brown, and Anna Howard Shaw were her contemporaries, all ordained in the late 1800s.
She became the assistant pastor, with her husband, of Park Church in Elmira, New York. The senior minister at Park Church was Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, the son of Lyman Beecher, and brother to Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. After Rev. Beecher's death in 1900, Rev. Eastman and her husband became co-pastors of Park Church. Beecher is said to have declared that she was the best female preacher he had heard.
While living in Elmira, she befriended Mark Twain, and the Eastmans became close friends to Twain and his wife, Livy. Annis Eastman was asked to offer the eulogy at Twain's funeral; she wrote it, but ill health prevented her from delivering it; her husband spoke on her behalf.
Eastman was a popular preacher and speaker, and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. She was invited to speak at the Congress of Women, at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Her talk was entitled "The Home and Its Foundations." She gave a sermon at a session of the National Council of Women in the United States, in 1895.
Late in her career, she became more liberal in her religious views, and became a Unitarian.
She died in 1910. Her children Max and Crystal, were influenced by her ideas and her ministry, and went on to be well known suffragists and social reformers.


Suzanne Jenniches

F. Suzanne Jenniches (born 1949) is an American engineer who served from April 2, 2003, to 2010 as the vice president and general manager of Government Systems Division of Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Electronic Systems sector. She holds a patent for laser soldering. She was the only woman to take engineering evening classes at Johns Hopkins University in the 1970s. She was among the first women to do so at that University. She was both the first female engineer and, therefore, the first intern at Westinghouse Electric Company. She is one of the first female leaders at Northrop Grumman, and considered a pioneer by the Society of Women Engineers.
Early life.
The firstborn of one son and two daughters, Jenniches is the first in her family to have a college degree. Her parents both graduated from high school and owned their own business. Running a business required long, 12- to 14-hour work days. Jenniches learned the value of work ethic through her parents.
Jenniches's parents also taught her personal responsibility. They told her that if there was a
problem at school, then she must have contributed to it-
Every Christmas, Jenniches' father, a mechanic with a service station garage and correspondence trade school student, gave her a power tool as a present. When she moved on to college, she brought the tools with her: sanders, circular saws, miter boxes, drills, and other equipment. Atypical for women at the time, it was Jenniches, not her husband, who supplied mechanical tools for the household.
In high school, Jenniches's guidance counselor encouraged her to go to college. Therefore, when Clarion recruiters visited her school, Jenniches accepted their invitation and applied to one school. She received a full scholarship. In hindsight, even though her engineering career ultimately succeeded, she regretted the early aimlessness and lack of planning.
Education.
In 1970, Jenniches earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Clarion State College (now, Clarion University of Pennsylvania). Engineering was not an option. She believed there were only two choices open to her as a young female biology major: a nurse or a teacher. She became a biology teacher.
While working as a teacher, Jenniches began to work toward an engineering degree. She attended evening school at Johns Hopkins, four nights a week, for seven years. She was the only woman at the evening engineering school for a number of years. In 1979, Jenniches earned a master's degree in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
Jenniches completed extensive post-graduate work in international affairs at The Catholic University of America. She has also attended the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development.
Career.
Jenniches began her career in science as a high school biology teacher, teaching ecology, in Westminster, Maryland. During this time, she received a magazine in the mail from the National Education Association. It was 1970, the first year of Earth Day. On the back cover, she found an ad from Johns Hopkins University. There was a post card to fill, tear out, and send in. Once again, she decided to change her career path on a whim. She applied to go to graduate school at Johns Hopkins by impulse. One of the items on the back cover flyer was the environmental engineering.
At Johns Hopkins's evening school, Jenniches's peers influenced her to work at Westinghouse Electric Company. It was the first time Westinghouse attained a female engineer, so they had to create an unusual exception for her: an internship. She would be the only woman there, and the only person that had ever had an internship. Jenniches accepted the unique opportunity. She quit teaching and worked at Westinghouse as an associate engineer. She worked there, as an intern and a woman, for two weeks, unpaid, in a plant, with no security clearance, all while still attending evening classes to complete her engineering degree. No one had ever done that before. As a part of her job, she used keypunch digital tapes to program read-only memories, a PROM programmer. She worked harder than most people. Therefore, she would often be on-call, sometimes waking from home at 3 o'clock in the morning to attend to emergency data requirements.
In the beginning of her engineer career, Jenniches changed jobs every eighteen months for two years. She kept the same telephone number and used it to advance her career within the company. She worked in computer test engineering, electronic assembly, advanced robotic manufacturing, radar systems, and defense programs. She engineered for Northrop Grumman (previously known as Westinghouse), and stayed at that corporation for more than thirty years.
In 1980, she obtained a patent for laser soldering. In 1981 she led operations for the B-1B bomber offensive radar. She oversaw the production of the first electronically scanned antenna for production aircraft in the world.
Jenniches has served in many leadership positions at Northrop Grumman Corp: In 1986, she was appointed manager of Systems & Technology Operations. Later she became Vice President of Automation and Information Systems, Vice President of Communications Systems (Electronic Systems sector). In 2003, she became the Vice President of the Government Systems Division.
Societies.
From 1988 to 1989, Jenniches was the president of the Society of Women Engineers. From 1996 to 2003, she served on the Board of Directors for MICROS, Inc. From 1999 to 2006, She served as a Member as a United States Army Science Board. She has also served on the American Association of Engineering Societies Board of Governors and as an expert witness before Congress on numerous occasions. She advocated on behalf of engineering for NASA, NIST, AAES, and SWE.
Awards.
Jenniches earned the Distinguished New Engineer Award in 1983 and the Achievement Award in 2000. Jenniches has received numerous awards.


Susan Pamerleau

Susan Lewellyn Pamerleau (born July 29, 1946) is a retired United States Air Force major general who served from January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2016, as the Republican sheriff of Bexar County, Texas. She is the United States Marshal for the Western District of Texas.
Personal life.
Pamerleau is the daughter of Disciples of Christ minister Dr. Truce V. Lewellyn (of Walnut Cove, North Carolina) and the late Mary Nelle [nee Montgomery] Lewellyn (of Knoxville, Tennessee). Pamerleau received a BA degree in sociology from the University of Wyoming at Laramie in 1968 and an M.P.A. from Golden Gate University in 1977.
In 1978, after first seeking marriage counseling help, Pamerleau left her abusive husband, Ben, after a marriage of seven years. Following the separation, Ben took his own life. During her 2012 campaign, Pamerleau cited her experience as a survivor of family violence as part of what prepared her to serve as sheriff. In addition, her focus on mental illness in the criminal justice system was personal, as she has a brother who suffered from mental illness.
Career.
United States Air Force.
Pamerleau served in the United States Air Force for 32 years, being promoted to brigadier general in 1994 and to major general in 1997. Her first assignment as a general officer in the United States Air Force was as commandant of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. Her next assignment was as the Commander of the Air Force Personnel Center, followed by her last assignment at Headquarters Air Force in The Pentagon as the director, Personnel Force Programs.
USAA.
After retiring from the Air Force in September 2000, Pamerleau worked at USAA, first as vice president of Membership Development; and later as senior vice president of Specialized Operations & International.
Bexar County Sheriff's Office.
In 2012 Pamerleau was elected the first woman sheriff in the history of Bexar County, Texas. Citing technology and policy issues that were "30 years behind", Pamerleau conducted a top-to-bottom review of the sheriff's office and began implementing policies to modernize the office. Improvements included digital record keeping, stab-vests for detention officers, and improved communications within the jail.
Mental health advocate and journalist, Pete Earley, has said of Bexar County's jail diversion programs "I’ve been to 48 states, five foreign countries, and I’ve testified five times before Congress, and Bexar County is known as the gold standard. [Bexar County is the] leading county in America when it comes to jail diversion and stopping the inappropriate incarceration of people who have serious illness like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder."
In the spring of 2016, the Bexar County Deputy Sheriff's Association Union called for a vote of no confidence in Pamerleau. Of the 1,600 deputies in the department, 219 voted no confidence. That summer, Pamerleau faced inquiries about four suicides in the Bexar County Jail that occurred from June 28 to July 22, 2017.
2016 election.
In the November 8, 2016, general election, Pamerleau narrowly lost to Democrat Javier Salazar, a San Antonio police officer who had never previously sought elected office. Salazar received 278,102 votes (50.4 percent) to Pamerleau's 273,914 (49.6 percent). In defeat, Pamerleau polled more votes in 2016 than she had in victory in 2012.
Shortly before Pamerleau left office, Salazar obtained a temporary restraining order from Judge John D. Gabriel which forbade Pamerleau from making personnel changes in the final days of her administration. Another judge, Gloria Saldana, dissolved the court order in the final hours of Pamerleau's tenure of office.
United States Marshal.
U.S. President Donald Trump nominated Pamerleau to be the United States Marshal for the Western District of Texas, one of the busiest in the country, which includes the cities of San Antonio, Midland/Odessa, El Paso, Austin, and Waco. The Senate confirmed her by voice vote on August 28, 2018. Pamerleau is the first female marshal to head the 173-year-old federal court district.
Medals and decorations.
Major General Pamerleau has been awarded the following awards and decorations:


Lilian Greenwood

Lilian Rachel Greenwood (born 26 March 1966) is a British Labour Party politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham South since 2010, and the Opposition Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Commons since 2021.
A former union official, she served as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet from 2015 until her resignation 2016, and as a shadow transport minister under opposition leader Ed Miliband from 2011 to 2015. On the back benches, Greenwood chaired the Transport Select Committee from 2017 to 2020, and the Commons Finance Committee from 2020.
Early life and career.
Greenwood was born on the 26 March 1966 in Bolton, Lancashire. She attended Canon Slade School, a local Church of England state secondary school, before attending St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Moving to Southwell, Nottinghamshire in 1999, Greenwood worked in the county for Unison, the public sector trade union, for 17 years.
Parliamentary career.
Greenwood was selected as the Labour Party candidate for the 2010 general election after the incumbent Labour MP, Alan Simpson, announced in 2007 that he would not stand for re-election. She was elected as the MP with 37.3% of the vote, a margin of 4.4% over her closest rival.
Shortly after her election, she joined the Transport Select Committee, and was subsequently appointed as an assistant opposition whip. In late September 2011, she was promoted by Labour leader Ed Miliband to the role of Shadow Minister for Rail, a position she held up to her re-election at the 2015 general election.
Following the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party, on 14 September 2015 she was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport.
Greenwood resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in the aftermath of the 2016 EU referendum, among with dozens of her colleagues, in protest against what she saw as Jeremy Corbyn's weak leadership. She supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party leadership election.
As a backbencher, Greenwood has chaired the Transport Select Committee and the Commons Finance Committee, and sat on the Liaison Committee, Education Select Committee and Regulatory Reform Committee.
She was re-elected at the 2017 and 2019 General Elections, and backed Lisa Nandy in the 2020 Labour Party leadership election.
On 14 February 2020, Greenwood self-quarantined herself after learning that she and Alex Sobel, another Labour MP, had attended a conference eight days earlier where a confirmed COVID-19 pandemic case had also been in attendance.
Greenwood returned to the opposition front bench in May 2021, when she was appointed by Labour leader Keir Starmer as the Opposition Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Commons for legislation, succeeding Alan Campbell following his promotion to Chief Whip.


List of African-American women in medicine

African-American women have been practicing medicine informally in the contexts of midwifery and herbalism for centuries. Those skilled as midwives, like Biddy Mason, worked both as slaves and as free women in their trades. Others, like Susie King Taylor and Ann Bradford Stokes, served as nurses in the Civil War. Formal training and recognition of African-American women began in 1858 when Sarah Mapps Douglass was the first black woman to graduate from a medical course of study at an American university. Later, in 1864 Rebecca Crumpler became the first African-American woman to earn a medical degree. The first nursing graduate was Mary Mahoney in 1879. The first dentist, Ida Gray, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1890. It wasn't until 1916 that Ella P. Stewart became the first African-American woman to become a licensed pharmacist. Inez Prosser in 1933 became the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in psychology. Two women, Jane Hinton and Alfreda Johnson Webb, in 1949, were the first to earn a doctor of veterinary medicine degree. Joyce Nichols, in 1970, became the first woman to become a physician's assistant.
This is an alphabetical list of African-American women who have made significant firsts and contributions to the field of medicine in their own centuries.
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Julie Dabrusin

Julie Dabrusin (born April 16, 1971) is a Canadian Liberal politician. She was elected to represent the riding of Toronto—Danforth in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2015 federal election.
Dabrusin earned university degrees in law and Middle Eastern studies. She then spent 13 years as an attorney with Rogers Partners LLP, as well as a year as commission counsel to an inquiry into government procurement. She and her family moved to the Danforth area in 1998. In 2011 she left her legal career to focus on raising her two daughters and participating in various community organizing and charitable activities aimed at promoting and preserving Toronto's public parks. In 2013, she was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.
She was nominated as the Liberal Party candidate in Toronto—Danforth for the 2015 federal election, running primarily on concerns about income inequality and government neglect of Canada's urban areas. Dabrusin won the election, unseating NDP incumbent Craig Scott. Toronto—Danforth was previously held by NDP leader Jack Layton and was considered to be a safe seat; it has long been one of the more left-leaning ridings in Toronto.


Barbara S. Brogliatti

Barbara S. Brogliatti (January 8, 1946 – June 21, 2015) was an American publicity, public relations and marketing executive, who spent 40 years working in the entertainment industry.
Early life and education.
Brogliatti was born and raised in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley. She attended North Hollywood High School and University of California, Los Angeles, graduating in 1968 with a degree in Social Sciences for Elementary Education.
Career.
Brogliatti began her career in public relations shortly after graduating from UCLA, as an assistant in the publicity department of the CBS Television Network. She rose through the CBS publicity ranks and was then tapped by producer Norman Lear to create and head publicity operations for his fast-growing companies (Tandem Productions, TAT Communications and ELP Communications). Eleven years later, when Lear sold his companies, Brogliatti joined Lorimar as the head of Corporate Communications, Public Affairs and Investor Relations.
When Warner Communications bought Lorimar in 1989, Brogliatti left to form her own public relations and marketing firm—The Brogliatti Company—handling such clients as Norman Lear, Haim Saban, Jean Stapleton and Barbara Walters. At the end of 1990, Brogliatti returned to Warner Bros. to head television publicity, promotion and advertising. A few years later, she established Warner Bros.’ first-ever Worldwide Corporate Communications department and took oversight of corporate communications studio-wide, including Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Home Video, Telepictures Productions, Warner Bros. Consumer Products, DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation.
In addition to her Studio responsibilities, Brogliatti served as a leader on industry-wide issues and regulatory matters, including serving as chairman of the MPAA’s (Motion Picture Association of America) Anti-Piracy PR/educational task force, as chief press strategist and spokesperson for the Coalition for the Repeal of the Financial Interest & Syndication Rule, and as the public relations strategist and spokesperson for the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the primary trade association and collective bargaining representative for all the studios, networks and 350 independent producers) for 25 years.
She left her role of Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer at Warner Bros. in 2005, after nearly 20 years at the Studio, and 40 years in the entertainment industry, to pursue philanthropy, teaching, travel and a more agreeable pace of life in Napa Valley, CA.
She served as a pro bono consultant, specializing in PR strategy, positioning and branding of NPOs (non-profit organizations) as well as serving as a member of the Board of Governors, Chapman University; Grantor/Creator of Spencer+Colton Teacher Grants (Napa Valley Education Foundation); and a member of UCLA Centennial Campaign Committee. Her pro bono consultancies coupled with Board positions include Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, the Read It Loud! Foundation, and MEND (Los Angeles poverty-relief organization). She also served as a guest lecturer and was an Adjunct Professor of Communications at Bradley University.
Personal life.
Barbara spent the last years of her life in Napa Valley, California where she died following a lengthy battle with cancer on June 21, 2015


Anne Palmer (cricketer)

Anne Palmer (1915 – 6 July 2006) was an Australian international cricketer who played three matches for the Australia national women's cricket team in the inaugural series against the England women's cricket team in the 1934/35 season. She took 7 wickets for just 18 runs in the first innings of the first-ever women's Test match.
She formed a formidable spin partnership with Peggy Antonio, the "Girl Grimmett", taking ten wickets at 12 apiece and scoring 92 runs at 15.33. She had practiced with Antonio at a local school in her youth and the pair took 22 of the 35 wickets to fall in the rubber. A right-handed batsman she scored 92 runs in her three tests, with a best of 39, at 15.33. Unfortunately she was unable to raise the money necessary to tour England with the team in 1937 and never played test cricket again.
After winning a scholarship to continue her education she became Victoria's first uniformed policewoman. At the age of 89, was presented with a 'baggy green' Australia cap and badge in a ceremony in 2004 at the offices of Cricket Australia in Melbourne.
Interviewed after the ceremony she recalled how some of her team mates slept on luggage racks as they traveled by train around the country:
She died in 2006 aged 91, but her death was not reported until later as she had no close relatives.


Lucy Winskell

Lucy Winskell OBE, DL, MBA, LLB, FRSA is British lawyer who is Pro Vice-Chancellor at Northumbria University She was awarded an OBE in the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List in recognition for her services to Higher Education and the regional economy in the North East.
Career.
She is Chair of the board of The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (North East LEP) and was Chair of the North East Committee of the Hertiage Lottery Fund. Formerly she has been UK President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, and President of Newcastle Law Society, Chair of the ACCA Regulatory Board and Chairman of Live Theatre and a Trustee of Live Theatre and International Centre for Life, as well as High Sheriff of Tyne and Wear 2015-16.
Winskell went to school in Newcastle, studied Law at Newcastle University and completed an MBA at Durham University. During her time at Northumbria University she has led the establishment of London and Amsterdam campuses.


Rima Berns-McGown

Rima Berns-McGown is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. She represents the riding of Beaches—East York as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party.
Berns-McGown is part of Ontario's first ever Black Caucus, alongside NDP caucus colleagues Laura Mae Lindo, Faisal Hassan, Jill Andrew and Kevin Yarde.


Androniki Drakou

Androniki Drakou (born 1965), also known as Nina Drakou, is a Greek doctor descended from Komotini, Greece specialized in orthopedic surgery. She is currently the Director of the Orthopaedics Clinic of Laiko General Hospital.
Education.
Drakou graduated from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1991. She also holds a MPhil from the University of Sheffield (2008)and a postgraduate diploma in Principles of Computer-Assisted Knee Arthroplasty from the University of Glasgow (2011).
Distinctions.
Nina Drakou is known for pioneering complex operations in orthopaedic surgery. In 2018 she led a team of orthopaedic surgeons in applying limb-lengthening intramedullary nails activated by an external electromagnetic field on a young patient with achondroplasia. The operation took place at Laiko General and it was the first of its kind to be performed in a Greek public hospital. At the same hospital, in 2020 she performed the first operation using computer-aided simulation and 3-D printing to reconstruct the deformed thigh bone of a patient with a rare bone disease. The surgical procedure was developed by a team of researchers, engineers and orthopaedic surgeons from Balgrist University (Zurich) and the Orthopaedic team of Laiko General under the direction of Drakou.
Her research interests include limb reconstruction by distraction osteogenesis, complex trauma, bone infection, rare skeletal diseases as well as computer assisted and minimally invasive arthroplasty of the hip & knee, while she has presented her work at related medical seminars and conferences.


Lani Brockman

Lani Brockman (born December 11, 1956 in Seattle) is an American theater actress and director. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Studio East.
Brockman was born in Seattle and grew up in Hawaii. After working as an actress, and later as director of youth programs for Northwest Actors Studio, she founded Studio East in Kirkland, Washington in 1992.
In partnership with Susan Bardsley, Brockman formed Dementia Unlimited to write original musical adaptations for young audiences. Titles include "3 Little Pigs", "Snow White", "Sleeping Beauty", "The Ugly Duckling", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Hansel and Gretel", "Goldilocks and the 3 Bears", "Rumplestiltskin", "Cinderella", "The Emperor's New Clothes", and "Frog Prince". All these shows have been performed by StoryBook Theater.
Brockman and Bardsley also wrote the original musical "'Twas the Night" which has been performed since 2001 as an annual holiday show at Studio East.


Agnes Dawson

Agnes Dawson (7 March 1873 – 20 April 1953) was a British politician and trade unionist.
Life.
Dawson was born in Peckham, she became a pupil-teacher in Camberwell before qualifying as a teacher at Saffron Walden Training College. She campaigned for women's suffrage, joining the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, and taking part in a boycott of the 1911 UK census.
In 1913, Dawson became a headteacher. She was also heavily involved in the National Union of Women Teachers; a founder member, she was its vice-president in 1918, and its president in 1919/20, leading campaigns for equal pay and for married women to be allowed to teach.
Dawson was also active in the Labour Party. She stood unsuccessfully in the 1922 London County Council election in Westminster Abbey, but won Camberwell North in 1925, and quit teaching to become a full-time politician. She was re-elected in 1928 and 1931, becoming senior whip of the Labour group on the council in 1929, then vice-chair in 1931. In 1932, she was a deputy chair of the council.
In 1934, Dawson was again re-elected to the council, for the first time with a Labour majority. She became chair of its Finance and General Purposes Subcommittee. She also persuaded Herbert Morrison to lift the ban on married women teachers in London. In 1937, she stood down from the council, cut her links with the union, and moved to Newport, Essex, with her long-term companion, Anne Munns, who she described as her "pal and partner". Dawson served as a magistrate and stood for the parish council.
Munns died in 1952, and Dawson died the following year.


Vivian Bales

Vivian Bales (married name Faison, January 1909–December 2001) was the first motorcycle cover girl and was known for several long-distance motorcycle rides around the US, and motorcycle stunt riding, in the 1920s and 1930s.
Bales was born in Florida in and raised in Georgia. After leaving school, she worked as a seamstress and dance instructor, and in 1926 bought her first motorcycle, a new Harley-Davidson Model B. She taught herself to ride on this motorcycle, and took her first long tour of 300 miles with a female friend from her home in Albany, Georgia to St. Petersburg, Florida, Florida. The Model B was a "350 cc", single cylinder, side-valve, with a manually shifted three speed engine with a battery, and not a magneto ignition, and a fully floating seat. It was brought out to compete with the successful Indian Prince model and was called "the peashooter" for the sound of its exhaust. One of the first 'streamline' models, it sold for around $235.
A Florida Harley-Davidson dealer heard the adventure, leading to a feature about it in the St. Petersburg, Florida newspaper, and then in the "Atlanta Journal". Bales, planning longer journeys, traded in her Model B for a 1929 flathead engine D-series, Harley-Davidson's first "" motorcycle. She wrote to Hap Jameson, then editor of "The Harley-Davidson Enthusiast" magazine, telling him about her plans to make a longer solo trip. The "Enthusiast" motorcycle magazine was first published in 1916, 13 years after the first Harley-Davidson motorcycles built.
Despite Bales only being 5 feet 2 inches and 95 pounds and unable to kickstart the bike on her own, Jameson appointed Bales as the official goodwill "Enthusiast Girl" and while Harley-Davidson did not finance her journey, arrangements were made for Harley-Davidson dealers, Rotary Clubs and others on the route to provide accommodation, fuel, and maintenance.
Having only been riding for 3 years and aged 20 years old, Bales started on 1 June 1929, taking 78 days to cover about 5,000 miles alone from Albany, Georgia to the Harley-Davidson factory in Milwaukee. On the way back, she traveled through Canada, Manhattan, the Carolinas and Washington, D.C. In Washington, Senator William J. Harris arranged for her to meet President Herbert Hoover wearing her trademark all white riding breeches, shirt, helmet, socks and sweater with "The Enthusiast Girl" across its chest. On the way, as a goodwill ambassador, she met many local dignitaries.
Bales became the first motorcycle magazine cover girl on the May and November 1929 editions, and her journeys were well documented in the December 1929 issue and by local papers all over the USA. She later became a stunt rider at motorcycle races in Tallahassee, Florida. At her 23 December 2001 funeral, aged 92, she was honored by a procession of Harley-Davidsons.
To Arthur Davidson she was "The Georgia Peach". For Bales, the motorcycle was a "key to the whole United States". Her adventurous spirit reacted against the received wisdom of the day that no woman should ride one. She married William Faison and adopted 3 children. Her last ride was at the age of 86.


International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists

International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES) is a current network for women professionals, which was founded in 2002 with the intention to support women and girls in engineering and science across the world. The current president is Jung Sun Kim, from Dongseo University, South Korea.
According to their mission statement, the network seeks to encourage the education and retention of professional women in these fields through international collaboration. The founding of the network received support from UNESCO. Founding members include Canadian engineers Claire Deschênes and Monique Frize. The network currently has over 60 countries involved, including partnerships with the Society of Women Engineers (USA), the Women's Engineering Society (UK), the German Association of Women Engineers (DIB), the Society of Taiwan Women in Science and Technology (TWiST) and African Women in Science and Engineering (AWSE).
Management of the International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists.
The network took over the management of the International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES), which first took place in 1964 in New York and has met every 3–4 years since then. ICWES serves as a meeting point for women practitioners in science and engineering from across the world. Since INWES took over the management of the conference, it has taken place in Ottawa, Canada (2002); Seoul, Korea (2005); Lille, France (2008); Adelaide, Australia (2011); Los Angeles, USA (2014); and New Delhi, India (2017). ICWES 18 will take place in Coventry, UK in 2021.
INWES archives.
The archives of INWES are held in the University of Ottawa Archives and Special Collections.


Maria Eklund

Maria Eklund (born 1973) is a Russian-born Swedish conductor. In 2005, she became the first woman to conduct an orchestra at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, breaking the barriers of what so far was a strictly male area of expertise. She conducted "The Golden Cockerel" by Rimsky-Korsakov.
Early life and education.
Eklund was born in Moscow in a family of Russian intelligentsia. Her paternal grandmother was an accomplished pianist who graduated from The Moscow Conservatoire at the same time as the pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. Her paternal grandfather is a physics scientist who worked at The Kurtchatov Institute in Moscow before relocating to Switzerland. Her maternal grandparents were both diplomats who served their country during World War II. Eklund's parents met each other at their workplace within the governmental foreign trade organisation.
Eklund's childhood home was often visited by family friends who themselves were distinguished representatives of cultural and intellectual life of Moscow and the Soviet Union. One of them was a Russian bass singer Juri Korolev who also was known to be a very gifted photographer. At one point he was working at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as Chief Director of Staff.
She attended secondary music school at the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow (1988-1992) as a choir conductor and school teacher in music and conducting subjects. Her conducting teacher was Margarita Koroleva, and her piano teacher was None Khachaturjan, the daughter of the composer Aram Khachaturjan.
She gained a university degree in choir conducting and pedagogical training in subjects such as conducting at Master level at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, in the class of Viktor Krasnoshekov, and Gnesin's Music Academy, in the class of Galina Rozdestvenskaya (1992-1997). She took a postgraduate course at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in orchestral and choir conducting (1997-2000), in the class of Anders Eby and Jing Wang. She then took a postgraduate course at the Conservatory in Moscow as a conductor and pedagogic training as a teacher in symphony and opera conducting (2001-2003), in the class of Gennady Rozdestvensky. She has also attended master classes with Jorma Panula, Johannes Schlaefli, and Tzung Yea.
Orchestras conducted.
Eklund has conducted the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Västerås Sinfonietta, the Norrland Opera Orchestra, Nordic Chamber Orchestra, Folk Opera, Stockholm Strauss Orchestra, Swedish Wind Ensemble, Linköping Wind Ensemble, the Royal Swedish Navy Band, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Arena di Verona, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian State Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Sinfonietta, the China National Opera, Krasnoyarsk Opera Theatre, the Ulyanovsk Symphony Orchestra, Tomsk Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra "Moscow Philharmonic", the Russian State Symphonic Capella, Brno Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Academy in London and others.
Involvement in gender equality in classical music.
Since 2012, Eklund has been actively involved in KUPP – a unique professional body for female conductors in Sweden which works towards gender equality within the profession of classical orchestra conducting. This association publishes annual reports on statistics of male and female soloist and conductors in Sweden, touching the areas of Swedish vs foreign musicians and agencies represented in classical music life of Sweden. Due to their work a vast amount of questions moved into public discussions in media and political venues, including regular meetings with the leaders of the Departments of Culture and personally with the Minister of Culture in Sweden.
Personal life.
Eklund lives with her husband and son on the island of Lidingo within the city limits of Stockholm, Sweden.


Ann Mearne

Ann Mearne (sometimes spelled Mearn) was a bookseller who operated in Little Britain, London, from 1682 to 1693. She was part of an influential family of publishers and bookbinders.
Life and career.
Mearne ran her print shop in London from 1682–1693. She is thought to be the widow of Samuel Mearne and to have carried on his business after his death. She presented gifts to the stationers' company in his name, and continued to authorize high-level transactions on behalf of their shop.
Her son, Charles Mearne, was a bookseller, publisher, and probably a bookbinder who worked in Little Britain and the King's Arms. Her son and husband were part of a group referred to as the Queens' Binder for their high-caliber work.


Gisele Ben-Dor

Gisèle Ben-Dor ( Buka; born 26 April 1955) is an American Israeli orchestra conductor of Uruguayan origin.
Conductor.
Ben-Dor was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, to Polish immigrant parents. She graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel Aviv University, and the Yale School of Music, also studying with Mendi Rodan in Jerusalem. She made her conducting debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring", televised and broadcast by the BBC/London throughout Europe and Israel. As an active guest conductor worldwide and American music director, Gisele Ben Dor has had a crucial role in the rejuvenation and promotion of the art music of Latin America, which she performs in concerts, festivals and recordings.
Ms. Ben-Dor's talent was recognized early by Leonard Bernstein, with whom she shared the stage at Tanglewood and at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festivals. Since then, she served as the Music Director of the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra and the Annapolis Symphony, as well as Resident Conductor of the Houston Symphony and the Louisville Orchestra. She has led the New York Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Helsinki Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, New World Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Israel Chamber Orchestra, New Israeli Opera, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, additional orchestras in the Netherlands, several orchestras in France (Ille de France, Lille, Cannes, Montpelier, Metz, Picardy), Italy, Spain, Australia and South America amongst many others worldwide. Maestro Ben-Dor is currently Conductor Laureate of the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Emerita of the Boston Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra, a post to which she was elected exclusively by the musicians and which she returns often as guest conductor. A winner of the Bártok Prize of Hungarian Television, Ms. Ben-Dor has also conducted several Eastern European orchestras in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the former Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria.
Work with Latin American music.
Uruguayan by birth and upbringing, Gisele Ben-Dor is a champion of Latin American music – notably the works of Ginastera, Villa-Lobos, Revueltas, Piazzolla, and Luis Bacalov – and is widely regarded as one of the world's finest and most dedicated exponents of this repertoire. Most recently Warner Classics released "The Vocal Album", featuring music of Ginastera with Placido Domingo, Ana Maria Martinez and Virginia Tola. Earlier on working with Georgina Ginastera, the composer's daughter, she created the "Tango and Malambo Festival" a wide-ranging ten-day feast of concerts, dance, and film celebrating the urban and universally admired tango and the less familiar, rustic Malambo (Dance). In 2000, she created the Revueltas Festival, showcasing every aspect of the Mexican composer’s music. Her major performances of Ginastera’s works include a new production and European premiere of his last opera, Beatrix Cenci, at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, as well as Turbae ad Passionem Gregorianam in Madrid, also a European premiere. She has recorded several CD’s of music of Latin American composers, all including world premiere recordings, and more are to be released, most notably a recording of Piazzolla and Juanjo Mosalini’s music with the Boston Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra, a recording of Ginastera’s last opera, as well as another recording of Bartok’s music.
Personal life.
Born and raised in Uruguay to a family of Polish parents, she studied at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv and at the Yale School of Music before residing in the United States. She became an American citizen in the year 2000.


Gudrun Poulsen

Gudrun Thorgerd Erna Poulsen (7 March 1918– 20 July 1999) was a Danish painter. Inspired by nature, she painted mainly country landscapes, often including cows. From the 1960s, she spent much of her time painting on the island of Møn while in the 1970s she turned to religious works with animals. A strong supporter of women artists, from 1954 to 1992 she headed Denmark's Society of Female Artists.
Early life.
Born in Copenhagen, Gudrun Thorgerd Erna Poulsen was the daughter of the lawyer Poul Mikael Poulsen (1880–1939) and the schoolteacher Jenny Ottosen (1881–1950). She was brought up in Hellerup by two outgoing parents. Her mother, a schoolteacher, held Bible classes in the home while her father was active as a trade union lawyer and as an advisor to political leaders including Prime Minister Thorvald Stauning. Poulsen showed interest in drawing as a small child, perhaps encouraged by the sculptor Rudolph Tegner, a frequent visitor. Her interest in landscapes and cows started when she was visiting her grandparents on their farm near Bramming in southwestern Jutland. She later spend as much time there as possible.
Although her parents encouraged her to become an artist, they ensured she received a good education. After matriculating from Aurehøj High School in 1936, she attended N. Zahle's School where she qualified as a schoolteacher. After teaching for a number of years, she took painting lessons under Erik Clemmensen (1905–1984) before being admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1945. Her professors included Vilhelm Lundstrøm, Kræsten Iversen and Elof Risebye. While at the Academy, she developed a lifelong friendship with the painter Knod Lollesgaard (1911–1997).
Career.
On graduating in 1952, she established a studio in Nyhavn. She had already begun to exhibit at the Charlottenborg Autumn Exhibitions in 1946 and continued to exhibit there, also participating in the Spring Exhibitions from 1956 to 1973. Her works were presented in many other exhibitions, both in Denmark and abroad.
Poulsen's favourite subjects were country scenes and animals, often with cows in hilly landscapes, painted with light brushstrokes in dark earthy tones. In 1963, she started to spend lengthy periods on the island of Møn, developing friendships with the painter Anne Marie Telmányi, the composer Ove Scavenius (1884–1973) and the celebrated actress Asta Nielsen whose portrait she painted in 1981.
Poulsen was a strong supporter of women artists. For 38 years, she headed the Society of Female Artists where she fought tirelessly for ensuring women had the same visibility and rights as their male counterparts. From 1954, she supported Kunstnernes Statsunderstøttede Croquisskole (Artists' State-Supported Croquis School) where she served as treasurer. In 1984, she became a board member of the Thorvaldsen Museum. Other responsibilities included positions on the Academy Council and the Academy of Fine Arts.
Gudrun Poulsen died in Copenhagen.
Awards.
Poulsen's scholarships and awards include:


Fatima Robinson

Fatima Robinson (born August 29, 1971) is a dancer, music video director and choreographer.
Career.
Robinson has choreographed music videos for artists such as Michael Jackson ("Remember the Time"), Aaliyah ("Rock The Boat," "Hot Like Fire," "Try Again," "We Need A Resolution," "Are You That Somebody," "More Than a Woman") Backstreet Boys Everybody (Backstreet's Back) and As Long As You Love Me aswell as Mary J. Blige's "Family Affair" (for which Robinson won the 2002 MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography);


Abigail Johnson

Abigail Pierrepont Johnson (born December 19, 1961) is an American billionaire businesswoman. Since 2014, Johnson has been president and chief executive officer of American investment firm Fidelity Investments (FMR), and chairman of its international sister company Fidelity International (FIL). Fidelity was founded by her grandfather Edward C. Johnson II. Her father Edward C. "Ned" Johnson III remains chairman emeritus of FMR. As of March 2013, the Johnson family owned a 49% stake in the company, with Johnson herself holding an estimated 24.5%.
In November 2016, Johnson was named chairman and remained CEO and president, giving her full control of Fidelity with 45,000 employees worldwide. Johnson's wealth is approximately $22.6 billion, making her one of the world's wealthiest women. She was named by Forbes as The Richest Person In America's 50 Largest Cities in 2016 and ranked #7 as Power Women in 2019. She was also the richest person in Massachusetts in 2020.
Early life and education.
Johnson attended Cambridge, MA private school Buckingham Browne and Nichols before graduating from Hobart and William Smith college with a bachelor of arts degree in art history in 1984. After working as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she met her husband, Johnson completed an MBA at Harvard Business School.
Fidelity Investments.
Upon graduating from Harvard Business School in 1988, Johnson joined Fidelity Investments, which her grandfather Edward Johnson II founded in 1946 - as an analyst and portfolio manager. In 2001, she was promoted to President of Fidelity Asset Management. In 2005, she became Head of Retail, Workplace, and Institutional Business. She was named president in 2012. In 2014, she became CEO, a role her father had held since 1977, and in 2016 she became chairman as well. In 2018, Johnson introduced cryptocurrency investment at Fidelity, making it possible for institutional investors to trade bitcoin and ethereum.
Politics.
In 2015, Johnson donated $2,700, the maximum amount legally allowed for presidential primary campaigns, to Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
Awards and honors.
Johnson has served as a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation and as a member of the board of directors of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and of MIT. She is the first and only woman to serve on the board of the Financial Services Forum.
Forbes has ranked Johnson among the most powerful women in the world for several years:


Lillian Trimble Bradley

Lillian Trimble Bradley (1875 – 1959) was an American theatrical director and playwright, considered the first female director on Broadway. After attending schools in Paris in her youth, Bradley went to study at the Moscow Art Theatre, where she directed four student productions for Constantin Stanislavski's group. By the time she finished her studies she had written two plays and had ambitions to move back to the United States to become a stage director. Once there, Bradley met producer George Broadhurst and her career launched. Her career went on for forty-one years as she directed numerous productions. Critics both applauded and were threatened by a female presence in the directing world.
Early life.
Lillian Trimble Bradley was born in Milton, Kentucky, in 1875. Her family was always on the move, so from a young age, Bradley set about to design her own education. She was educated in a convent school in Paris, where she attended the theatre regularly and applied as an apprentice to Andre Antoine. She then assisted with two of Antoine’s productions.
Following her education in Paris, Bradley went to Moscow for two years to study at the Moscow Art Theatre. There she directed four student productions for Stanislavski’s group and learned as much about technical theatre as she could. By the time her studies at the Moscow Art Theatre ended, she had written two plays, and she returned to the United States with ambitions to become a stage director.
Once back in the United States, Bradley married a wealthy stock broker named D. I. Bradley. He was sixty-five years old while Bradley was twenty-eight. After his death, Bradley acquired all of his land and money that she used to obtain a large house in which she built a laboratory for lighting and set design experimentations.
Career.
The Broadhurst Theatre.
Bradley’s career was able to find traction when Bradley became associated with producer George Broadhurst in 1918. Before Bradley met George Broadhurst, managers refused to believe that a woman could master the infinite technical detail which goes with the production of even the simplest play. Broadhurst expressed interest in producing Bradley’s play, "The Woman on the Index", and Bradley agreed under the condition that she would assist with the direction. Later that same year, Broadhurst appointed Bradley as the general stage director of the Broadhurst Theatre. It was this appointment which earned Bradley the title of “first American woman director”. Bradley continued to direct under Broadhurst’s management until 1924. During her time at the Broadhurst Theatre, Bradley directed a total of eight Broadway productions including "The Wonderful Things" (1920), "Come Seven" (1920), "Tarzan of the Apes" (1921), and "Izzy" (1924). She married Broadhurst in 1925 and appears to have retired and moved to Santa Barbara where Broadhurst died in 1952 and Bradley died in 1959.
"The Crimson Alibi".
The production of "The Crimson Alibi" established Bradley as a director. A New York Times review praised the production, saying “the production of plays and its infinite detail – the working out of the lighting, etc. – have been regarded as man’s work, and Mrs. Bradley is probably the first woman in the country to go into it as a profession. There are, of course, several women playwrights, such as Rachel Crothers, who direct their own plays, but they are playwrights primarily, and directors secondarily. Mrs. Bradley, although she has written plays, did so only as a means to an end – and that end was directing.” The same article referred to Lillian Trimble Bradley as “the five-foot pocket edition of a woman Belasco.” This also refers to Edith Ellis, who directed "The Return of Eve" in 1908, but, based on reviews, Bradley was seen as the first woman director because she was able to project her identity in her own productions. While some critics viewed Bradley’s direction as similar to a man’s, others marked the work as specifically feminine.
Directing melodrama.
Melodrama was one of the most popular genres of performance at the time, and much of Bradley’s work fell into this genre. “Bradley believe[s] in melodrama as the most effective stage presentation of the period as it has been at all times.” Bradley wrote and directed plays that starred women yet relied on the melodramatic trope of a woman getting and keeping a man’s attention. Bradley’s debut production "The Woman on the Index", is a melodrama which goes against gender expectations by having the man in the passive role and portrayed the women as the instigators of action, but the play still left both its female leads clamoring for the role of the “good wife” as their goal. It was not her work on stage but rather her work behind the scenes that was challenging to gender expectations of the time. When asked what she thought of stage directing as a profession for women, Mrs. Bradley laughed and said “Frankly, I can not honestly recommend it, though personally I love my work. Stage directing means very hard work, meals at odd times, loss of sleep, and no leisure”


Karen Berg (politician)

Dr. Karen Berg is a physician and member of the Kentucky State Senate in the 26th District. She is the only Jewish member of the Kentucky State Senate. She was elected to the Kentucky Senate (26th district) in a special election held on June 23, 2020, defeating Bill Ferko. She succeed Senator Ernie Harris, who had resigned on April 15.
Family and Education.
Berg is a graduate of Central High School in Louisville, the University of Kentucky where she got her BA, and the University of Louisville where she earned a MD in 1987.
She is the daughter of Dr. Harold Berg, a physician and artist.
Career.
Berg is a diagnostic radiologist.
Berg ran for Kentucky State Senate in 2018, losing the seat to incumbent Ernie Harris. She won the seat in a special election conducted in June 2020 after Harris announced his retirement. This was the first time in 25 years that the state seat in Kentucky is occupied by a Democrat. She is the only Jewish member serving on the Kentucky State Senate.
She supports Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear’s efforts to reinstate Kentucky’s health insurance exchange, a program that was abandoned by Matt Bevin.
She is also an assistant clinical professor in the department of radiology at the University of Louisville.


Liz Jones (theatre director)

Elizabeth May Jones (born 1946), best known as Liz Jones, is an Australian theatre director and artistic director of La Mama Theatre in Melbourne.
Career.
Jones graduated from the Australian National University (ANU) in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1996 ANU conferred on her an honorary doctorate of laws.
Jones joined La Mama Theatre in 1973 as a performer and administrator and acted in a number of productions. She took over from Betty Burstall as artistic director in late 1976 and has remained in that role ever since. In 1985 in an effort to redress gender balance, she found six women directors to workshop plays, half of them by women.
She won a Churchill Fellowship in 1999, enabling her to observe the cultural significance of theatre in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain and the USA.
Since the fire that destroyed the La Mama Theatre in Carlton in May 2018, Jones has been involved in fundraising. The new building is due to open mid-2021.
Awards and recognition.
Jones won the Facilitator's Prize at the 2000 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards and was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2002.
Jones was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to the performing arts as an artistic director, administrator and performer, to the promotion of Indigenous playwrights and actors, and to the community".
Jones won the Australia Council Award for Theatre in 2018. She was presented with the Sue Nattrass Award for lifelong achievement at the 2019 Helpmann Awards.


Virginia Lago

Virginia Lago (born 22 May 1946) is an Argentine actress with an extensive career in theater, film, and television. She is best known for being the host of the popular film series "", broadcast by Telefe.
Biography.
Virginia Lago was born in San Martín in the north of Greater Buenos Aires on 22 May 1946. Until age 20 she resided in Villa Ballester. She attended primary school at Roberto Noble School No. 11, and Tomás Guido secondary school in San Martín. She is the cousin of actress Zully Moreno and the aunt of actress Fabiana García Lago.
In 1963 she had a prominent performance in the play "Pygmalion". She studied Theater with and at the Institute of Modern Art and learned from many other actors. In 1966 she appeared on the well-received program "Galería Polyana", which was broadcast on weekdays from May to October on Channel 9 with scripts by the theatrical author Clara Giol Bressan and a cast that included Susana Campos, Fanny Navarro, Enzo Viena, Ricardo Passano, , Aída Luz, , , and .
Internet meme.
As a result of the series that Virginia Lago hosted on Telefe, around March 2012, her image became the subject of an Internet meme in which her way of speaking and acting is parodied. Videos in which she is imitated have circulated on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. In the parodies, emphasis is placed on Lago's unhurried tone, the diminutives and temperance in her speech, and her recurring catchphrase "¡maravilloso!" (wonderful) to describe a situation. Lago acknowledged that she initially cried about these jokes, but then took them with humor.


Jasmina Novokmet

Jasmina Novokmet (born 8 September 1969) is a Serbian conductor, Professor of Conducting and former Associate Dean at the University of Priština Faculty of Arts in North Kosovo. She is a former student of Jovan Šajnović.
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Baayork Lee

Baayork Lee (born December 5, 1946) is an American actress, singer, dancer, choreographer, theatre director, and author.
Early life and career.
Lee was born in New York City's Chinatown, to an Indian mother and Chinese father. She started dancing at an early age, and she made her Broadway debut at the age of five as Princess Ying Yawolak in the original production of "The King and I" in 1951. Yul Brynner, the original king, was like a second father to her. After she outgrew the show, she first collected unemployment at age eight. With further dance study in ballet, modern, and afro-Cuban, she appeared in George Balanchine's original production of "The Nutcracker," where she met another idol, ballerina Maria Tallchief, whom she hoped to emulate.
While attending the High School for Performing Arts, she met fellow student Michael Bennett. Around the same time, she appeared in "Flower Drum Song", in which she was taught to walk in high heels. When reaching her full height of four feet, ten inches (147 cm), her dreams of becoming a ballerina were dashed because she was deemed too short. Though she was offered a scholarship to Juilliard, Lee instead chose to further her career. Her Broadway appearances included "Mr. President", "Golden Boy", and "Here's Love". Her next three shows were all choreographed by her old friend, Michael Bennett: "A Joyful Noise", "Henry, Sweet Henry", and "Promises, Promises". In the last one, she performed the famous dance number "Turkey Lurkey Time" (with Donna McKechnie and Margo Sappington). Lee was dance captain for "Promises, Promises", and recreated the choreography for subsequent touring productions, starting her future path as choreographer.
In 1973, she travelled to Israel to film Norman Jewison's version of "Jesus Christ Superstar."
"A Chorus Line" and Michael Bennett.
In 1973, she appeared in Bennett's "Seesaw" and was featured opposite Tommy Tune. Again assisting with the choreography, if Bob Avian was Bennett's right hand, Lee had become his left.
In 1975, Lee was invited by Michael Bennett to participate in the workshops from which "A Chorus Line" was developed. The character of Connie Wong was, in large part, based upon her life. Her bubbly and vibrant energy and "dynamo" personality were reflected in her brief solo, although Lee reports her mother disliked her daughter's singing. Lee laughingly blamed the notes written for her to sing. (Her "Four foot, ten" solo, long missing from the album, was finally heard on a re-release in the late 1990s). Along with the cast, she won the 1976 Theatre World Award for Ensemble Performance for the show. Over the years she has directed or choreographed more than thirty-five international productions of the musical, including the most recent Broadway revival in 2006. Fifteen years later, along with cast member Thommie Walsh and Robert Viagas, she documented the evolution of "A Chorus Line" in the book "On the Line: the Creation of A Chorus Line", published in 1990. The 2008 feature documentary "Every Little Step" chronicles the casting process for the 2006 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, which Lee choreographed. The film also tells the saga of the original production, using old film clips, excerpts from the original sessions Bennett taped with chorus kids, and revealing interviews with original collaborators and performers, including Lee herself.
Lee became one of Bennett's closest collaborators, and she helped to develop the choreography in many of his shows.
Choreography and directing career.
Starting in the 1970s, Lee stepped out on her own, choreographing "Where's Charley?" in New Jersey. Since then, she has directed national and international tours of "The King & I", "Bombay Dreams", Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella", "Barnum", "Porgy and Bess", "Jesus Christ Superstar", and "Carmen Jones". She was Associate Choreographer for Tommy Tune. She also has choreographed several productions for the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center. She also choreographed the ill-fated "," after Kenny Ortega was fired during rehearsals. Other projects include becoming a talent scout for Tokyo Disneyland, opening a musical theater school in Seoul, South Korea, and producing. In 2018, she choreographed New York City Center's Gala production of "A Chorus Line." She directed and choreographed Rodgers and Hammerstein’s "South Pacific" for City Springs Theatre Company (Sandy Springs, Georgia) in 2019.
Awards.
Columbia College Chicago honored Lee during their 2003 Women Warrior Festival, a weeklong event, with music and dance performances, lectures, discussions, workshops and films, presented by the College's Center for Asian Arts and Media. Lee gave a keynote address and was a 2003 Woman Warrior Honoree.
The Actors’ Equity Foundation gave her the Paul Robeson Citation Award in 2014.
In 2017, Lee received the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, which honors members of the theater industry for their significant contributions to charitable causes. She was honored for her longstanding commitment to future generations of artists through her work with the National Asian Artists Project (NAAP) and theatre education programs around the world. Lee is a co-founder of NAAP, a non-profit that showcases the work of Asian-American theatre artists through performance, outreach, and educational programming.


Enid Stacy

Enid Stacy (10 June 1868 – 4 September 1903) was an English socialist activist. Stacy was born on 10 June 1868 in Westbury, Gloucestershire, the eldest of the Irish painter Henry Stacy and his wife Rose Deeley's four children. The family moved to Bristol in 1881. She was raised in a Christian socialist household; her brother helped found the Bristol and Clifton Christian Socialist Society and her father later became involved with the Bristol Socialist Society. She studied at the University of Bristol, where she won the Whitworth Scholarship, and she then became a tutor at the Redland High School for Girls. There, she met Katharine St John Conway, with whom she shared an interest in John Ruskin and Anglo-Catholicism.
In 1889, there was a wave of strikes in Bristol and Stacy was convinced by a speech of Tom Mann to become involved, but after she spoke at a meeting which had been banned, she lost her job. Instead, she joined the National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers as an organiser, leading strikes among cotton workers and confectionery workers, and becoming honorary secretary of the Association for the Promotion of Trade Unionism Among Women.
Over time, Stacy came to focus more on lecturing, initially for the Fabian Society and the Labour Church, then from 1893 for the new Independent Labour Party (ILP). That year, she spent some time living in the Starnthwaite colony for the unemployed, but they were soon evicted. From 1895, she worked full-time for the ILP, serving on its national administrative council from 1896 to 1899. She challenged Keir Hardie for the chairship of the ILP in 1898.
Stacy also wrote frequently for "The Clarion" and joined the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. In 1896, she met the Anglo-Catholic vicar Percy Widdrington at the International Congress of Socialists. They married the following May, initially living in Newcastle upon Tyne, then later in Calderbrook. Even after having a child, Stacy spent six months of the year travelling and lecturing on socialist and feminist topics, until she died suddenly on 4 September 1903.


Elia Aboumrad

Elia Aboumrad (born in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican chef and former "Top Chef" contestant.
Biography.
Aboumrad studied at Ecole Lenôtre. After earning Le Cordon Bleu's 'Grand Diplôme', Aboumrad went on to work under Joël Robuchon in Paris. After several years of training and service, she ultimately became his first female Sous Chef. She then moved to Las Vegas to open his restaurants at the MGM Grand Hotel. Later, she was recruited as executive chef of The Café at The Hotel at Mandalay Bay. The Hotel garnered their fourth AAA Diamond under her regime.
Aboumrad appeared on reality TV show "Top Chef" on Bravo during its second season and was one of the final four contestants when she was eliminated from the competition. In 2009, she was awarded the internationally recognized 'Universal Excellency Award' for her dedication to the culinary arts. Aboumrad also competed as a contestant on "" in 2010, but she was eliminated in the first episode.
In September 2012, Aboumrad and Uyen Nguyen opened GORGE, a charcuterie house and wine bar, on the famous Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California.
Personal life.
Aboumrad is Mexican and of Lebanese heritage


Marcelline Aboh

Marcelline Aboh (1940 – 20 August 2017), known by her alias Détin Bonsoir, was a Beninese actress from Porto-Novo. She died of a heart attack after suffering health problems due to her age.
She was the main comedian of the women-folk comedy group Les échos de la capitale. She first joined them in 1980 after beginning her theatre career in 1958.
The filmmaker and actress had eight children.


Millie Miller

Millie Miller (8 April 1922 – 29 October 1977) was a British Labour Party politician.
Miller was a councillor in the London Borough of Camden and was the first woman to lead a London Borough council when she became leader in 1971, remaining in the post until 1973. Earlier, she had been the Mayor of Camden and of Stoke Newington where she had been a councillor.
Miller was elected on her second attempt as Member of Parliament for Ilford North in the October 1974 general election, defeating the Conservative incumbent Thomas Iremonger. In 1977, she died in office at the age of 55. Her successor in the subsequent by-election was the Conservative Vivian Bendall.


Sylvia Massy

Sylvia Lenore Massy is an American record producer, mixer, engineer, and author. Massy is perhaps best recognized for her work on 1993's "Undertow", the full-length double platinum-selling debut for Los Angeles alternative metal band Tool as well as her work with System of a Down, Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Brazilian band South Cry.
History.
Massy's first project was in the mid-1980s as producer, engineer, and mixer for a compilation album titled "Rat Music for Rat People, Vol. 3" on the CD Presents label. Acts featured included Adolescents, Raw Power, Doggy Style and Mojo Nixon. She followed this with producing the punk band Verbal Abuse for Boner Records, engineering two projects for metal band Exodus and co-producing the Sea Hags independent album with a young guitarist Kirk Hammett, who had just finished the "Master of Puppets" album with thrash metal group Metallica. She also produced "Television, Drug of a Nation" by the Beatnigs, the former band of the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's Michael Franti.
From Green Jellö to Tool.
Towards the end of the 1980s, Massy moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles and worked at Tower Records on Sunset Blvd. At Tower she met the members of a Buffalo, New York, band named Green Jellö (later known as Green Jellÿ) and recorded their debut album. After becoming a staff engineer at Larrabee Sound in West Hollywood, she was hired by Zoo Records/BMG to produce Green Jellö's major label debut album, which featured members of a new Los Angeles group called Tool. On Green Jellö's "Cereal Killer" album, Tool's Maynard James Keenan sings on "Three Little Pigs", and Tool's drummer Danny Carey plays on the album. This began a relationship Massy would have with the band Tool that would span two records: "Opiate" and "Undertow".
Los Angeles and Larrabee Sound.
In Los Angeles, Massy was an engineer, producer or mixer on recordings from artists including Aerosmith, Babyface, Big Daddy Kane, Bobby Brown, Prince, Julio Iglesias, Seal, Skunk Anansie, Paula Abdul, Ryuichi Sakamoto and many more. She worked with manager Gary Kurfirst on Irish rock band Cyclefly for Kurfirst's Radioactive Records. At Larrabee Sound, Sylvia connected with producer Rick Rubin and would work with him on several projects spanning seven years.
Sound City.
From 1994 until 2001, Massy's vintage Neve 8038 console and other specialized recording equipment occupied Studio B at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California. Besides Massy's own work at Sound City, several other successful projects were recorded on Massy's equipment during these years, including albums by Sheryl Crow, Queens of the Stone Age, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Smashing Pumpkins, the Black Crowes and Lenny Kravitz. Massy's equipment is visible in many scenes of Dave Grohl's film "Sound City".
Rubin and beyond.
Massy engineered and mixed several projects for producer Rick Rubin on his label American Recordings, including Johnny Cash's album "Unchained", which won a Grammy award for Best Country Album in 1997. With Rubin, she also recorded Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Slayer, Donovan, Geto Boys, the Black Crowes, Danzig, and System of a Down's debut album. In the '90s, Massy produced material for Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sevendust, and Powerman 5000, which featured guest appearances from Rob Zombie and actor Malachi Throne; and for newcomer Pauley Perrette.
In 1997 Massy mixed the Beastie Boys' "Tibetan Freedom Concert" in New York with Adam Yauch and producer Pat McCarthy.
RadioStar Studios and international acclaim.
Starting in 2001, Massy owned and operated RadioStar Studios out of the Weed Palace Theater until its closing in 2012. She acquired the theater property in 2001 in Weed, California, and operated it as a recording studio for 11 years, with notable clients having been Sublime, Dishwalla, Swirl 360, Econoline Crush, Cog, Spiderbait, Norma Jean, Built To Spill and From First To Last (featuring Sonny Moore of Skrillex.) Several international hits came out of RadioStar Studios with Massy, including Spiderbait's "Black Betty" which reached #1 on Australia's ARIA chart in 2004; Cog's "The New Normal" album received the Australian Triple J "J Award" in 2005; Seigmen's "Metropolis" which reached #4 on Norway's sales charts; Klepht was named "Best Portuguese Act" by MTV Europe; Econoline Crush received a Canadian Juno nomination and Platinum sales status for their "The Devil You Know" album; and Animal Alpha's EP reached Gold sales status in Norway in 2005.
Artwork, writing and music festivals.
In the 2000s, she wrote a regular column in "Mix Magazine" called "Gear Stories" which discussed vintage recording equipment versus modern equivalents. She wrote an essay about Thomas Edison's contribution to the recording industry which was included in the official Grammy Awards Program. In 2011, Massy co-founded the 4&20 Blackbird Music Festival which operated for two years in downtown Weed, California. The festival drew approximately 7000 people and featured 250 musical acts during its run.
In January 2015, Massy began to write a book called "Recording Unhinged" for Hal Leonard Publishing. The book was released in March 2016. Interviews and contributors for the book include Hans Zimmer, Geoff Emerick, Bob Ezrin, Bruce Swedien, Michael Franti, Bob Clearmountain, Al Schmitt, Elliot Scheiner, Linda Perry, Ross Robinson, Matt Wallace, Ross Hogarth, Shelly Yakus, Paul Wolff. Massy also illustrated the book.
The cover of the March 2016 issue of "Electronic Musician" Magazine features Massy's illustration of a dinosaur and a robot in a battle.
As an educator.
In 2015 and 2018, Massy was a visiting professor at Berklee College Of Music in Boston. In 2018 Massy taught a workshop at the Abbey Road Institute in London, UK. In 2016 she lectured at SAE Institute's audio engineering schools in London and Munich. She has presented periodic recording workshops in Dresden at Castle Rohrsdorf and at Mix With The Masters in Les Studios de la Fabrique in Saint-Remy-de-Provence in the south of France. In 2017 Massy conducted a workshop and lecture at the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences in Gilbert, Arizona, and a workshop at Tecnólogico de Monterrey in Mexico City for several hundred students. She has also conducted workshops in Sardinia, Oslo and Gdansk and Rome.
In 2017, Massy and co-author Chris Johnson began a collaboration for a professional recording course at Berklee based on their book, "Recording Unhinged".
In 2019, Massy toured and conducted workshops for Abbey Road Institute locations in Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris and London.
Current status.
Massy lives in Ashland, Oregon and works out of her private studio. She continues to work as an independent producer, educator and music promoter. She has appeared on an episode of "Pensado's Place", an industry video program with producer/mixer Dave Pensado and was nominated for "The Big Award" at the Pensado Awards in 2014 . Massy is a member of NARAS and served on the P&E Wing Steering Committee and Advisory Boards. In 2009, she traveled to Washington D.C. to lobby for musician's Performance Rights and continues to be involved with musician, producer and educational advocacy work on behalf of NARAS. In February 2016 Massy won the Music Producers Guild's "MPG Inspiration Award" at the MPG Awards in London. The award was presented by John Leckie.
In 2015 Massy mixed for Cage the Elephant and Soilwork. The latter part of 2015 and early 2016 saw her overseeing production of Avatar's album "Feathers and Flesh". In 2016 Massy recorded Seattle all-woman noise band Thunderpussy in an abandoned nuclear power plant's cooling tower for the song "Torpedo Love". She recorded singer-songwriter Sarah Brendel in the underground venue at the Merkers Show Mine, a retired salt mine in Merkers, Germany.
In early 2017 she produced and engineered the Melvins at the Village Studios in Santa Monica while being filmed by Mix With The Masters. She also produced albums by Econoline Crush, Far From Alaska and Dishwalla, and was hired to re-work the recordings of Grey Daze, a side project by Linkin Park's frontman Chester Bennington. In early 2018, Massy traveled to Mexico City to produce the MTV Unplugged television broadcast (and subsequent album release) of the band Molotov. In the summer of 2018 she gained access to the abandoned London Underground station at Aldwych to record British band God Damn on the subway platform.
In 2019 Massy produced and mixed the follow up to Life of Agony's "River Runs Red" album, named "The Sound of Scars". Tracks were recorded at Studio Divine in Ashland, Oregon. Later in 2019 Massy mixed a solo album for Taylor Hawkins (drummer for Foo Fighters). The album features performances by Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana), Joe Walsh (Eagles), Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders), LeAnn Rimes, Nancy Wilson (Heart), Perry Farrell (Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros), Roger Taylor (Queen), Chris Chaney (Porno For Pyros) and Duff (Guns N' Roses).
Discography.
Massy has worked on the following projects:


Marzena Diakun

Marzena Diakun (born 3 April 1981, Koszalin) is a Polish conductor.
Early life and education.
She was born in 1981 in Koszalin in northern Poland. She attended the Grażyna Bacewicz Music School in Koszalin. In 2005, she graduated with honours from the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław where she studied conducting.
She made her conducting debut when she was still a student at the academy. She conducted at the 17th International Festival of Drum Music with the Koszalin Philharmonic. She then became an assistant of Jerzy Maksymiuk. In 2006, she continued her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna under Uroš Lajovic.
Career.
She worked as an assistant to Andrey Boreyko performing with the Bern Symphony Orchestra. She conducted with such orchestras as Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Jenaer Philharmonie.
She completed post-graduate studies under supervision of such prominent conductors as Gabriel Chmura, Kurt Masur, Colin Metters, Howard Griffiths, David Zinman and Pierre Boulez.
Between 2009–2012, she headed the Spanish contemporary music band "Smash Ensemble". In 2010, she obtained a doctoral degree from the Academy of Music in Kraków. Since 2011, she has worked as an assistant professor at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. In 2012, she won second prize at the Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors in Katowice. She also won second prize at the 59th Prague Spring Competition for Conductors in the Czech Republic. Between 2015–2017, she was an assistant to Mikko Franck, the principal conductor of the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. In 2015, she received a scholarship from the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Tanglewood Music Festival. In 2016, she was awarded the Paszport Polityki Award in the category of classical music.