Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne

Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne FRSE is a Scottish chef and writer who specialises in cookery and food allergies.
Biography.
Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne studied Physiology at the University of London. After graduation, she trained at Leiths School of Food and Wine in London and worked as a section chef at Terence Conran's restaurant Bibendum. In 1998, she returned to teach at Leiths, where she was commissioned to write the "Leiths Techniques Bible".
She lives in Edinburgh with her husband and three children, two of whom suffer from dairy, egg and wheat allergies.
After publishing her book on cooking for food allergies in 2007, Bruce-Gardyne worked on developing the recipe for a perfect, fresh gluten-free loaf. In April 2009, she launched Genius Fresh White and Brown Gluten and Wheat Free bread into the retail market the UK and founded the company Genius Foods Ltd based in Edinburgh.
Genius bread has won three awards since its launch – Award for the Most Innovative Product from Coeliac UK; Award for Innovation at the Foods Matter Free-From Food Awards; and Award for Innovation at the Bakery Industry Awards.
Honours.
Bruce-Gardyne was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 2017.>


Anne Throckmorton

Anne Throckmorton or name in religion Anne Frances (1664 – June 5, 1734) was an English poet who was prioress of the Convent of Our Blessed Lady of Syon in Paris from 1720 to 1728.
Life.
Throckmorton was born in 1664. She was one of the three daughters of Anne (born Monson) and Sir Francis Throckmorton. She had four brothers and her father was the second baronet of Coughton Court in Warwickshire and her great aunt was the prioress Margaret Throckmorton of St Monica's convent in Leuven.
She began her education English Blue Nuns in the rue de Charenton in Paris. She was there for five years before her mother joined her. Her mother had separated from her husband in 1677 and she came to spend the rest of her life with the Blue Nuns. Anne (the daughter) professed as an Augustinian nun at another convent on the outskirts of Paris on 2 July 1687. This Augustinian Convent of Our Lady of Syon had been founded by English ex-patriot Catholics in 1634.
She was a poet and she would create long poems as a record. In 1708 Ann Tyldesley was the prioress and Throckmorton write verses about St Paul and they were written in letters of gold to celebrate Tyldesley's golden jubilee. In that year her niece Elizabeth Throckmorton came to the convent with her six sisters to attend the convent's school.
She became the prioress of the Convent of Our Blessed Lady of Syon in Paris in 1720 and remained in that role until 1728. She banned the entry of any new novices who were with Scottish or Irish after she had difficulties with two of her nuns. In 1729 she sat for her portrait. Sir Robert Throckmorton, 4th bart, commissioned four paintings from Nicolas de Largillière. One was of his sister Elizabeth Throckmorton, another was of Anne, another of his cousin Frances Woollascot and the last was of himself.
Throckmorton died in Paris in 1734. Her niece Elizabeth Throckmorton would be elected prioress in 1736. Her portrait remained in the Throckmorton family at Coughton Court where it was placed with the portraits of her sisters. Her portrait is now owned by the National Trust and the other two paintings are abroad.


Angela Funovits

Angela Funovits (born July 29, 1987) is an American magician, mentalist, and dermatologist. She has made television appearances in the United States and elsewhere.
Biography.
Funovits was born and raised in Avon Lake, Ohio. She became interested in magic at the age of 10 after watching "", a Fox Network TV program that revealed the secrets of magicians. Funovits began modeling at age 11 after being scouted by an agent from Elite Model Management and at age 16 she won the Miss Teen Cleveland pageant.
She graduated from Avon Lake High School in 2005 and entered the combined B.S./M.D. program at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, later forming a program where magicians teach magic tricks to children at a cancer support center in Cleveland. Funovits graduated from Northeast Ohio Medical University in the spring of 2013 and completed her dermatology residency at Case Western Reserve University/MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio where she served as academic chief resident and was named recipient of the "American Academy of Dermatology's Presidential Citation Award". She went on to work as a dermatologist at Allied Dermatology and Skin Surgery, and continues to run a production company, Seraphim One, that she founded in 2006.


Adena Jacobs

Adena Jacobs (born June 1982) is an Australian theatre director. She has worked in Australian independent theatre with her company, Fraught Outfit, of which she is Artistic Director, and has also directed for various mainstage companies. She was "Female Director-in-Residence" at Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne in 2012, and in 2014–15 was Resident Director at Belvoir, Sydney.
Jacobs adapted the 1966 film "Persona" for theatrical performances at Theatre Works in Melbourne in 2012.
Jacobs graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (honours) from Melbourne University (2004), and with a Masters of Theatre Practice from Victorian College of the Arts (2008) where she received the Yvonne Taylor scholarship for a female director. In 2011, Jacobs was awarded the Melbourne International Arts Festival’s Harold Mitchell Fellowship. She is a member of Lincoln Center Directors' Lab.
Jacobs is Jewish and has dual US-Australian citizenship. Her sister is singer-songwriter Ariela Jacobs. She is openly gay and her partner is actress Luisa Hastings Edge.


Noemi (singer)

Noemi (; born Veronica Scopelliti on 25 January 1982, in Rome) is an Italian singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in 2009, after competing in the second season of Italian talent show "X Factor". Immediately after being eliminated from the competition, she released her debut single, "Briciole", which peaked at number 2 on the FIMI Singles Chart. As of 2020, she has released 5 studio albums, which spawned commercially successful singles such as "Vuoto a perdere", "Sono solo parole", "La borsa di una donna" and the chart toppers "L'amore si odia", featuring vocals by Fiorella Mannoia, and "Per tutta la vita".
During her career, Noemi performed songs written for her by well-known songwriters, including Vasco Rossi, Fabrizio Moro, Ivano Fossati, Tommaso Paradiso, Marco Masini, Federico Zampaglione, Giuliano Sangiorgi and Gaetano Curreri. She competed five times in the Sanremo Music Festival between 2010 and 2018, and she will also took part in the 2021 contest.
Between 2013 and 2015, she was a coach for three seasons in "The Voice of Italy".
Early life.
Noemi is the eldest daughter of Armando and Stefania. Her father was an entrepreneur, and he became a city councilor in Vasto, while her mother was a painter. Both of them tried to pursue a musical career, with Armando competing in the Castrocaro Music Festival, and Stefania performing as an amateur singer. She has a younger sister, Arianna.
When she was 19-months-old, she appeared in a TV commercial for diapers brand Pampers.
She graduated from the Roma Tre University in 2005, earning a Bachelor of Arts in performing arts. During her studies, she worked as a filmmaker for Italian television Nessuno Tv.
Career.
2007–2009: SanremoLab, "X Factor" and breakthrough.
In 2007, Noemi took part in SanremoLab, a competition aimed at selecting three artists to debut in the Newcomers Section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2008. She was among the twelve finalists with her song "Briciole", but she was not chosen by the artistic director of the 2008 contest, Pippo Baudo. With her band, named Bagajajo, Noemi also performed in several small venues in Rome, mainly singing English-language covers.
In late 2008, Noemi auditioned for the second series of "X Factor", which started in January 2009. She was one of four singers in the "Over 25" category, mentored by Morgan.
Noemi recorded a studio version of Vasco Rossi's "Albachiara" and Ivano Fossati's "La costruzione di un amore", originally performed at "X Factor", for the official show's compilation albums, titled "X Factor Anteprima Compilation 2009" and "X Factor Finale Compilation 2009", respectively.
She was eliminated before the semi-finals of the competition, placing fifth overall.
Despite of this, she appeared as a guest in the following episode of the show, performing her debut single "Briciole". The song was her entry in SanremoLab 2007, but was never released or publicly performed before.
In April 2009, the single peaked at number two on the Italian Singles Chart compiled by FIMI.
Shortly after, her self-titled extended play was released by Sony Music. The studio set featured four original songs, including the single "Briciole", and two covers.
During the summer of 2009, Noemi toured in Italy, performing at several small local events and patronal festivals.
On 21 June 2009, she was among 43 female artists performing at the San Siro stadium in Milan during the charity event Amiche per l'Abruzzo, created by Laura Pausini with the purpose to raise funds supporting the reconstruction in the territories affected by the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake. She sang Irene Grandi's "La tua ragazza sempre" with Grandi herself, Syria and Dolcenera.
On 19 August of the same year, she also performed at the Concerto per Viareggio, a charity event, created by Zucchero, whose proceeds were devolved to the families of the victims of the Viareggio train derailment.
Noemi's first full-length studio album, "Sulla mia pelle", was released by Sony Music on 2 October 2009. The album, produced by Diego Calvetti, featured a song written by Baustelle's frontman Francesco Bianconi, and a duet with Fiorella Mannoia, titled "L'amore si odia". "L'amore si odia" was released as the album's lead single, and spent two consecutive weeks at number one on the Italian FIMI singles chart.
From October 2009 to early January 2010, Noemi went on a promotional tour across Italy, titled Sulla mia pelle Live, performing in venues such as the Otel club in Florence, the Garibaldi Theatre in Modica, and the Verdi Theatre in Cesena.
2010: Sanremo Music Festival.
Noemi was chosen as one of the artists competing in the main competition of the 60th Sanremo Music Festival. She performed the song "Per tutta la vita", which was among the top ten entries reaching the final night of the competition, but did not qualify in the top three songs. The final rankings for entries placing between 10th position and 4th position were never revealed, although "Avvenire" later published an article listing televote results.
"Per tutta la vita" became Noemi's second number one single, and was featured on a new edition of "Sulla mia pelle", released in February 2010.
From 15 April 2010 to 2 October 2010, Noemi went on tour to promote it on various stages throughout Italy and Slovenia.
On 7 May 2010 it was released "Vertigini", a new single which, for some problems between radio and recordings, was re-released on 14 May.
On 24 May 2010 Noemi, in Verona Arena, got three Wind Music Awards for sales of songs "L'amore si odia" and "Per tutta la vita" and album "Sulla mia pelle".
"RossoNoemi" and new singles.
On 28 January 2011, it was released the single "Vuoto a perdere", written by Vasco Rossi and Gaetano Curreri, that obtained a platinum disc and a Nastro d'Argento. On 22 March 2011 Noemi's second album was released: "RossoNoemi", which sold over 120,000 copies, thus getting two platinum discs. On 27 May 2011 Noemi, in Verona Arena, won two Wind Music Awards for sales of albums "Sulla mia pelle" and "RossoNoemi". On 6 May 2011 she released the single "Odio tutti i cantanti", followed on 16 September by "Poi inventi il modo".
"Made in London".
On 20 February 2014, Noemi published her third studio album, recorded in London and therefore called "Made in London".
The album includes "Bagnati dal sole", released as its first single on 22 February 2014, and "Un uomo è un albero".
"Cuore d'artista".
In 2016 she releases her new album, featuring Ivano Fossati, Giuliano Sangiorgi and Marco Masini, produced by Gaetano Curreri.


Rachel Devine

Rachel Devine (1875–1960) was a jute weaver and trade unionist. A founder member of the Dundee and District Union of Jute and Flax Workers who later became its president, she often went to the Scottish Trades Union Congress as her union's delegate.
Early life.
Blackley was born on 13 February 1875 in Dundee to Rachel McClellan and John Blackley, a yarn dresser. At the age of eleven she started work as a "half timer", dividing her working week between textile mill and school. (The school leaving age was then 14.) She progressed from being a "shifter", whose job was to change the bobbins on the looms, to becoming a fully-fledged jute weaver in around 1892. She married John Devine, a cabinet-maker, in 1898.
Activism.
She was at the inaugural meeting of the Dundee and District Union of Jute and Flax Workers in 1906 and was elected to represent workers at her mill, Heathfield Works, in 1909. The jute industry employed large numbers of women and girls and the union reflected this with a rule that at least half of its executive should be women, unlike many other unions. For over thirty years Devine held a number of different union management posts, with a short break after tensions with the full-time union secretary, John F. Sime. She returned in 1915 and actively encouraged union support for rent strikers in Dundee following the Glasgow example.
In 1923 a large popular vote made her vice-president of the union. One year later she was elected president, and continued in that role for the next six years. This involved negotiations with the employers' Association of Jute Spinners and Manufacturers where she proved herself capable and forceful. Devine was known as a blunt speaker and was prepared to be combative with employers.
After once more becoming vice-president of the union she left when she went to work in a different mill but was back in 1938 as a trustee for the union, its delegate to the Trades Council and also to the Labour Party. In 1939 she opened evidence for the union at an enquiry about conditions for employees under sixteen years old. It was conducted by Harold Morris on behalf of the Home Secretary in response to a request, ultimately unsuccessful, from Dundee jute manufacturers to exempt them from a new law limiting the working week for under-16s to 44 hours.
At a retirement presentation for J.F. Sime in 1940, Devine spoke about the progress made since 1914 in improving conditions for local mill workers.
She died in Dundee on 13 April 1960.


Luisa Marelli Valazza

Luisa Marelli Valazza (born 1950) is an Italian chef whose restaurant Al Sorriso, in the Piedmont municipality of Soriso, has been recognized in the Michelin Guide since 1982 when it was awarded its first star. A second star followed in 1988 and a third in 1998.
Biography.
Born on 20 December 1950 in Soriso, Luisa Marelli studied Italian literature before entering the restaurant business. She first gained interest in cuisine in Borgomanero where she spent ten years raising a family in the starred restaurant of her husband Angelo Valazza (1970–1980). In 1980, they bought a restaurant in nearby Soriso near Lake Orta. When the chef had to return to Switzerland, she suddenly had to take charge of the kitchen herself. Passionately interested in her new assignment, she began studying the books and recipes of the most famous French and Swiss chefs such as Frédy Girardet, Georges Blanc and Jacques Pic.
Al Sorriso was awarded its first Michelin star in 1982, its second in 1988 and its third in 1998, making Luisa Valazza one of only three women in Italy with three Michelin stars. In 1999, the restaurant was included in Relais & Châteaux and was cited for "cucina eccellente" by the Accademia Italiana della Cucina.
Luisa Valazza ascribes it all to her husband: "This restaurant's success is above all due to Angelo... He is the one who has always had a gift for public relations and catering. He is the one who taught me everything. I never did any apprenticeships. He was a chef before I was. I just stepped in to sort out an emergency."


Cecilia Skingsley

Cecilia Skingsley ("née" Bystedt; born 18 August 1968) is a Swedish economist and journalist. She is one of six economists in the Executive Board of the Swedish central bank with the title of deputy governor.
Education.
Skingsley holds a BA in economics and political science from Stockholm University. She received a financial analyst diploma from SSE Executive Education at Stockholm School of Economics (formerly IFL at Stockholm School of Economics) and studied journalism at Poppius journalist school.


Justine Elliot

Maria Justine Elliot (née Borsellino; born 29 July 1967) is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since the 2004 federal election, representing the New South Wales seat of Richmond. She served as Minister for Ageing in the First Rudd Government from 2007 to 2010 and as a parliamentary secretary in the Gillard Government from 2010 to 2013.
Early life.
Elliot was born on 29 July 1967 in Brisbane, Queensland. Her father Bob Borsellino (d. 2011) was a journalist and political activist who led efforts for an inquiry into the killing of the Balibo Five. He was a candidate for the Democrats and Greens at several state and federal elections. Her grandfathers were both World War II veterans, Joe Borsellino with the United States Marines and Victor Perkins with the Australian Army.
Elliot attended Nambour State High School, graduating in 1984. She went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Queensland, majoring in English and history, and a graduate diploma in human resource management and industrial relations at Griffith University. Elliot was an officer with the Queensland Police from 1990 to 1997. She subsequently moved to New South Wales and worked at the Department of Juvenile Justice from 2002 to 2003.
Political career.
Elliot joined the ALP in 1995 and served as president of its Tweed Coast branch from 2003 to 2004.
Opposition (2004–2007).
In a considerable upset at the 2004 election, Elliot defeated the National Party's Larry Anthony, a minister in the Howard government. Elliot's win was one of the few victories for the Labor Party as the Coalition easily won a fourth term in government. She was only the second Labor member ever to win the seat, and was also the only Labor challenger to defeat a Coalition MP in a rural seat. Richmond had been in the hands of a conservative party for all but six years since Federation, and for 66 of those years by the National Party. For much of that time, it had been a reasonably safe National seat. However, the growth of Tweed Heads and other coastal communities, as well as the concurrent loss of its more rural territory, has seen it become an increasingly urban seat since the 1980s. Elliot trailed Anthony by 11 points on the first count and was well behind him for most of the night. However, on the seventh count, a Green candidate's preferences flowed overwhelmingly to Elliot, allowing her to defeat Anthony by 301 votes.
Elliot served on the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health and Ageing from 2004 to 2007. The 2007 election saw Elliot re-elected over the Nationals' Sue Page. She picked up a swing of over 7.4 points, which was significantly larger than the New South Wales state average and technically made Richmond a safe Labor seat.
Government (2007–2013).
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced Elliott would be part of his new ministry on 29 November 2007, as Minister for Ageing. She retained the seat at the 2010 election with only a small swing against Labor. She stepped aside as Minister for Ageing ahead of the formation of the Second Gillard Ministry on 11 September 2010. On 11 September 2010 Elliot was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Trade, and held this position until a reconfiguration of the ministry on 4 February 2013 when she became a backbencher. She publicly announced that this was because of her opposition to coal-seam gas mining (CSG) in the electorate, which conflicted with the role of parliamentary secretary.
Opposition (2013–present).
Elliot retained Richmond for Labor at the 2013 election even as the Coalition opposition defeated the incumbent Labor government, marking only the second time (the first being her initial victory in 2004) that the non-Labor parties had been in government without holding Richmond. She again won with an increased majority at the 2016 election and then increased her majority again at the 2019 election.
Elliot served on the Joint Statutory Law Enforcement Committee in 2013 and 2014, and the Joint Standing Treaties Committee in 2013. She also served on the three House of Representatives Standing Committees of Regional Australia, Publications and Petitions from 2013 to 2016. Elliot has been the Chair of the Federal Labor Country Caucus since 2014, and was the Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Petitions from 2013 to 2016, and again since 2019. She has also served on the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity since 2016, and the Law Enforcement Committee since 2019.
Personal life.
Elliot has two children with her husband Craig Elliot, who is also a former police officer. As of 2018 they lived in the rural locality of Nunderi. Her husband was the ALP's candidate in Tweed at the 2019 New South Wales state election.


Nancy Diuguid

Nancy Diuguid (18 October 1948 – 21 May 2003) was an American theater director, who lived and worked in England and South Africa.
Early life and education.
Nancy Elizabeth Diuguid was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her parents were Gex Lillard Diuguid, a Carroll Co. tobacco farmer, and Elizabeth Bailey Lineback Diuguid. She attended schools in Ghent and Carrollton, Kentucky, and Indiana University Bloomington, before moving to London, England, to study at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 1972.
Career.
After leaving the Central School, Diuguid did street theatre and worked with the fringe group A Plum Line which rehearsed in the ballroom of an Eaton Square squat (next door to Lord Boothby's home). From there, it was a short step to the recently formed Gay Sweatshop and, in 1976, a three-month tour of Jill Posner's coming-out play "Any Woman Can", which provoked bomb threats. In 1979, she directed her last production with this company, "The Dear Love of Comrades" by Noël Greig, about the 19th-century socialist utopian, and early LGBT activist, Edward Carpenter. The following year, at her instigation, the first women's festival was held at the Action Space (now the Drill Hall) which trailblazed the future of lesbian theatre, such as Susan Griffin's "Voices" staged by Diuguid. She also formed the Women's Project Company (with Kate Crutchley, 1979) and directed several other plays: Louise Page's "Tissue" (1978), the first play about breast cancer; Noël Greig's "Angels Descend On Paris" (1980), concerning the Nazi persecution of gays and Jews; Timberlake Wertenbaker's "New Anatomies" (1981); and "Patterns" (1984), by her own company, Changing Women.
Diuguid had a strong alliance with Clean Break, a women's theatre company formed by ex-prisoners, directing the plays "The Easter Egg" (1983) by Chris Tchaikovsky, a prison reformer, and Lin Coghlan's "Apache Tears" (2000). Other major productions included Howard Brenton's "Sore Throats" (1979); Darrah Cloud's "The Stick Wife" (1991), about the wives of three Ku Klux Klan members; and "Request Programme", by Franz Xaver Kroetz (1986) with actress Eileen Nicholas, for which Diuguid won a best director award. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, she travelled extensively in Australia, Brazil (as a guest director, at the British Council Theatre Group, with Luiz Päetow), Japan and Israel (where a traumatic personal experience led, 10 years later, to her shortfilm "Aftermath"). Furthermore, she became a staff director to the English National Opera and also worked as an Associate Director at the Hampstead Theatre.
Later years.
In 1999, Diuguid settled in South Africa and started an arts and drama group with male prisoners at the Leeuwkop Maximum Security Prison. "Doing work about people who are at the edge, is for me second nature," she said. The next year, having been diagnosed with breast cancer, she started a project in Alexandra township using dance, drama, art and movement to help empower and heal traumatised children. The name of the project was "Voices", and the name of her company, "Dedel'ingoma" (which means "Release your song"). In 2002, she directed the techno-opera "Earthdiving in Cape Town". Diuguid continued working until shortly before her death in 2003. Her companion of 17 years, South African filmmaker Melanie Chait, and their foster son Desmond, survived her. She left instructions to spread her cremated remains in England, South Africa and Kentucky. Diuguid was memorialized by a plaque in St Michael's and All Angels Church, Guiting Power, Gloucestershire, England, and with a cenotaph at the Ghent Cemetery in Carroll County, Kentucky.


Gunna Breuning-Storm

Gunna Breuning-Storm (1891-1966) was a Danish violinist and music teacher. From 1910 she performed as a soloist throughout Germany until the First World War broke out in 1914. Her Breuning-Bache Quartet was active in Denmark from 1919 until 1956. In 1918, she was the first and only woman since to be appointed court violinist and the first woman to play in the Royal Danish Orchestra. From 1926, she became the conductor of the amateur Euphrosyne Orchestra for the next 20 years. She also performed widely in Sweden and England.
Early life.
Born in Copenhagen on 25 January 1891, Gunna Breuning-Storm was the daughter of the physician Hoter Axel Breuning-Storm (1849–1923) and Gabriele Sophie Borchorst (1863–1921). She studied the violin from an early age under Johannes Schiørring (1869–1951) and later under Torben Anton Svendsen (1904–1980), completing her education in Berlin under Henri Marteau.
Career.
She made her début in 1907 at the Old Fellows Mansion in the presence of the king and queen. After moving to Berlin, she débuted there in 1910 and went on to perform as a soloist in Germany's main cities. She performed with the Berlin Philharmonic under Arthur Nikisch, Max Reger and Felix Weingartner and played at the court for Empress Augusta Viktoria. She also taught in Berlin, attracting a considerable number of students.
With the outbreak of war in 1914, she returned to Denmark, continuing to teach and giving concerts. She also gave a number of concerts in Sweden in 1916, including one featuring the composer Emil Sjögren with whom she played his sonatas for violin and piano. Back in Denmark, in 1918 she accompanied the court pianist Johanne Stockmarr and was appointed court violinist, becoming the only women to receive the honour. As a teacher, she was engaged by C.F.E. Horneman's conservatory and later by the Royal Danish Academy of Music (1919–1923).
Like her German instructors, she also began to conduct. In about 1920, she established her own chamber orchestra which in 1925 became the amateur Euphrosyne Orchestra. From 1926, she was the orchestra's conductor for the next 30 years, also maintaining the orchestra's educational role as a lively, enthusiastic teacher. She was supported by Crown Prince Frederik, later King Frederik IX, who sponsored a number of the orchestra's concerts. She also continued to perform as a soloist, on one occasion causing quite a stir by performing nine of the most famous violin concertos over three consecutive evenings.
Breuning-Storm is also remembered for playing first violin in the Breuning-Bache Quartet which gave its first performance in 1919 and continued to play until 1956. Outside of Denmark it was known as the Copenhagen Quartet. Initially, its members included Gerhard Rafn, second violin, Ella Faber, violist, and Paulus Brache, cello. It gained a considerable reputation both in Denmark and abroad playing both classical and modern music.
Gunna Breuning-Storm died in Copenhagen on 24 April 1966. She is buried in Bispebjerg Cemetery.
Awards.
She was honoured with the Ingenio et arti award in 1935.


Andrea Khanjin

Andrea Khanjin (born December 27, 1987 in Moscow) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario during the 2018 general election. She represents the riding of Barrie—Innisfil, and is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
She is also the current Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks.


Madeleine Symons

Madeleine Jane Symons (1895 – 21 March 1957) was a British trade union organiser.
Symons was educated privately before studying at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she graduated in economics. She then found work with the National Federation of Women Workers (NUWW), as the assistant to Mary Macarthur, and began taking the lead on negotiations on wages and conditions in engineering. The federation became part of the National Union of General Workers, and Symons instead became the assistant to Margaret Bondfield.
In 1925, Symons posted bail for Robin Page Arnot, a leading figure in the Communist Party of Great Britain. However, she was a prominent member of the Labour Party. She always declined offers to stand for election, she did serve on the party's National Executive Committee. When elected in 1922, she was the youngest ever member of the NEC, and its first to have graduated from university.
Symons left her union post in 1926, thereafter devoting her time to voluntary work. She served on a large number of government committees, particularly those relating to child social services and youth justice, and was also chair of the West London Juvenile Courts. She was also active in the Howard League for Penal Reform, the Magistrates' Association, and served on the executive of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship in the mid-1920s.
In 1940, Symons married Professor Harold Roper Robinson, becoming Madeleine Robinson. He died in 1955, and her health then rapidly declined; she died in 1957, aged 61.


Kristiina Poska

Kristiina Poska (born 12 July 1978, Türi, Estonia) is an Estonian conductor.
Biography.
At age eight, Poska began piano lessons. She graduated from Türi Music School in piano studies in 1994, and then studied choral conducting at the Georg Ots Tallinn Music College from 1994 to 1998. She continued her choral conducting studies in 2002 at Eesti Muusikaakadeemia (the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre). She subsequently moved to Berlin, where she studied at the Universität der Künste (Berlin University of the Arts) with Kai-Uwe Jirka and Jörg-Peter Weigle. From 2004 to 2009, she studied orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" with Christian Ehwald. In the spring of 2008, she received a scholarship from the Conductors Forum at the German Music Council, where her conducting mentors included Peter Gülke, Reinhard Goebel, and Eri Klas.
In 1998, Poska founded the Estonian choir "Nimeta" ('No Name'). From 2006 to 2011, she conducted the Cappella Academica symphony orchestra of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Following engagements at the Komische Oper Berlin in the 2010-2011 season ("La Traviata", "La Périchole"), she served as "Erste Kapellmeisterin" with the company from 2012 to 2016.
In October 2018, Theater Basel announced the appointment of Kristiina Poska as its next General Music Director (GMD; "Generalmusikdirektorin"), the first female conductor to hold the post. She served as GMD of the Theater Basel for the 2019-2020 season. In March 2019, the "Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen" (Flanders Symphony Orchestra) announced the appointment of Poska as its next chief conductor, the first female conductor to be named to the post, effective with the 2019-2020 season.


Yuriko Doi

Yuriko Doi is a stage director, choreographer, performer and former founding artistic director of Theatre of Yugen (San Francisco, California). Doi specializes in the fusion of traditional Japanese dramatic arts with modern world theater.
Theatre of Yugen.
Japanese-born and trained in the classical theater styles of Noh and Kyogen, Doi brought this heritage to the West in the 1960s, founding Theatre of Yugen in 1978. That troupe has proven to be the major beneficiary of Doi's directorial resume’ of more than 30 productions. Her foundation in these arts began when she was a graduate student of Waseda University in Tokyo, where she studied with Kyogen master and National Living Treasure of Japan, Mansaku Nomura (Izumi School). She has also been influenced by the Noh practice of her aunt, Yuki Doi (Hosho School), and her studies with Noh principal actor Shiro Nomura (Kanze School). Developing her skills in both forms through continued study with Mansaku Nomura, his disciple Yukio Ishida, and Shiro Nomura, Doi has worked diligently to share these arts with an American audience and students.
The array of productions Doi has directed range from classics and adaptations to original works. She has taken for her inspiration theater throughout time, from around the world, directing plays that run in style and subject matter from Japanese and Greek mythology to 20th-century American, using movements from sources as diverse as flamenco and Native American dance.
The classical Japanese plays Doi has directed include the Noh plays: Sotoba Komachi (1987); and the Kyogen plays: The Melon Thief/Uri Nusubito (1978), Sweet Poison/Busu (1980), The Magnificent Beard/Higeyagura (1981), The Sickle and Injured Pride/Uri Nusubito (1981), Three handicapped Men/Sannin Katawa (1981), Owl Mountain Priest/Fukuro Yamabushi (1983), Parting of the Seasons/Setsubun (1985), Tug of War/Kubibiki (1987), Sumo Wrestling with a Mosquito (1987), The Persimmon Mountain Priest/Kaki Yamabushi (1996), Tied to a Pole/Bo Shibari (2002), Spring Water/Shimizu (2004)
Directed adaptations.
Doi's directed adaptations and originals include:


Isabella Nichols

Isabella Nichols is an Australian professional surfer.
Early life.
She is from Coolum Beach, Queensland. She has been surfing since she was nine years old. She won the world junior championship in January 2016 held in Portugal.
Career.
She was the stunt double for Blake Lively in the movie The Shallows (film). She is currently ranked 20th in Women's QS series. She is currently studying a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering - Honours at Deakin University.


Kajsa Wahlberg

Kajsa Wahlberg is Sweden's national rapporteur on human trafficking opposition activities. She holds the title of Detective Inspector, and serves on the Swedish Police Authority's human trafficking unit, of which she is the head. Wahlberg estimated that the number of prostitutes in the country dropped 40% between 1998 and 2003 because of Sweden's passing of the 1999 "Kvinnofrid" law that made selling sex legal, but buying sex illegal. In 2005, she said that the effectiveness of the "Kvinnofrid" law is limited by the fact that not all of the country's police authorities make enforcing this particular law a priority, with many police authorities allocating more of their resources to combat the illegal drug trade. In 2008, she said that large numbers of foreign politicians and law enforcement officials were coming to Sweden looking to study the "Kvinnofrid" law. She also said, "We don't have a problem with prostitutes. We have a problem with men who buy sex." In March of that year, Wahlberg served on a Swedish delegation of experts who travelled to Scotland as the start of a campaign to implement a law in Scotland analogous to the "Kvinnofrid" law in Sweden. In 2009, she said that most of Sweden's prostitutes immigrated to Sweden from Eastern Europe.


Emilia Dilke

Emilia Francis Strong (2 September 1840, Ilfracombe, Devon – 23 October 1904), better known as Lady Dilke, was a British author, art historian, feminist and trade unionist.
Biography.
Emilia Francis Strong, the daughter of Henry and Emily Weedon Strong, was called by her middle name, with its masculine spelling, during her childhood and youth. She was raised in Iffley, near Oxford, and attended the South Kensington Art School in London in her late teens. She married Mark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1861; she was then known as Francis Pattison, Mrs. Mark Pattison, or, in some of her publications, as E. F. S. Pattison. After Mark Pattison's death in 1884, she married Sir Charles Dilke, and was subsequently known as Lady Dilke or Emilia Dilke. Both of her marriages were topics of some public discussion.
She became a contributor to the "Saturday Review" in 1864 and subsequently was for many years fine-art critic of the "Academy" and from 1873 its art editor, and she published in numerous other journals in Britain and France. In addition to numerous signed and unsigned essays, and her major works of art history, she wrote essays on French politics and on women's trade unionism and women's work. She also published two volumes of supernatural short stories (a third part-volume appeared posthumously). She was involved with the Women's Protective and Provident League, later the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL), from near its inception in 1874 and she served as President of the WTUL for many years until her death. Her niece, Gertrude Tuckwell (daughter of her sister Rosa and brother-in-law the Reverend William Tuckwell) worked with her closely in her feminist and trade unionist activities.
Works.
In addition to numerous articles in periodicals, she published, under the surname Pattison:
Under the surname Dilke, she published the following books:


Helen May Butler

Helen May Butler (1867–1957) was an American bandleader and composer who has been called "The female Sousa". Leading an all-women's band from 1898 to 1912, she had an extremely successful career at a time when women were discouraged from such public activities. Her best-known group, Helen May Butler and Her Ladies' Military Band, was a favorite of President Theodore Roosevelt, and one of her compositions, "Cosmopolitan American March", was selected as the official march of the Republican Party during Roosevelt's 1904 election campaign.
Early life and education.
Helen May Butler was born on a farm in Keene, New Hampshire, on May 17, 1867. Her parents were Lucius Marshall Butler and Esther L. (Abbott) Butler. Her father was a former railroad engineer who designed some of the early Pullman cars. The family moved to Providence, Rhode Island, when she was still a child.
As a girl, Butler studied violin with the Boston Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster, Bernard Listerman and with Abbie Shepardson-Mauck. From Listerman she obtained her first good violin, an instrument of the same era as Stradivarius violins. She also became an accomplished cornet player.
Career.
In 1891, Butler formed her own orchestra, the Talma Ladies Orchestra, performing privately at the houses of the well-to-do. Butler wanted to lead a band that could perform in public venues, but at the time such activities were not considered appropriate for young women. The popular military bands of the time, in particular, developed from a strongly male tradition and generally excluded women well into the 20th century. So in 1898, Butler went ahead and formed a new group with different instrumentation, the U.S. Talma Ladies Military Band. It initially numbered less than two dozen members but later grew to a core of 25–35 women, occasionally swelling to as many as 60 for special occasions. The women dressed in elegant military-styled uniforms with ostrich-plumed tricorne hats. In addition to the traditional brass instruments, the band included a woodwind section.
Around 1901, businessman John Leslie Spahn heard Butler's band and decided to sponsor them. He became the band's business manager and renamed the band to Helen May Butler and Her Ladies' Military Band (alternatively: the Helen May Butler Ladies Brass Band), promoting them as an "Adam-less Garden of Musical Eves". To further the all-women illusion, he lightly disguised his own gender by styling himself as J. Leslie Spahn. In 1901, Butler's band played its first concert under its new name at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, the only women's band to appear at the Exposition.
During its heyday, the band toured America from coast to coast—including the Chatauqua circuit—becoming not only the best-known group of women musicians but critically acclaimed as one of the top bands in the country. The billed themselves as performing music "by American composers, played by American girls". Their popularity is evidenced by the fact that they performed over 100 times in St. Louis, Missouri, Charleston, South Carolina, and Buffalo, New York, and over 200 times in Boston, in addition to all the other cities they toured. In one stretch in 1903-04, they played a concert a day for thirteen months. In the winters—which were off-season for traveling bands like Butler's—Butler would teach music and conduct local orchestras in her winter base of Beatrice, Nebraska.
In 1902, Spahn organized contracts for a tour throughout Texas. That year the band played at the White House for Theodore Roosevelt, becoming a favorite with the president.
In 1903, Butler and her band won first prize at the Women's Exposition in New York City. Throughout that year, they toured the eastern and southern states.
In 1904, Butler's band played at the St. Louis World's Fair alongside many other bands, including that of John Philip Sousa. It was because of her similarly forceful personality that she was given the moniker "The female Sousa". In St. Louis, C.G. Conn—whose instruments Butler had previously endorsed—gave the entire band silver Conn instruments.
One of her own compositions, "Cosmopolitan American March", was published in 1904 and became the official march of the Republican Party during Roosevelt's election campaign that year. Butler's band played at the Republican National Convention.
Personal life and later years.
Butler married Spahn, her business manager, in 1902. They had a daughter, also named Helen May, and a son, Leslie. She divorced Spahn after a few years of marriage. She married her second husband, a Scotsman named James Herbert Young, in 1911. The following year, she broke up her band and retired to raise her family in Cincinnati, Ohio. There the couple ran the Burlington Hotel.
In later years, Butler ran a boarding house near Covington, Kentucky, from the 1920s to around 1950. In 1936, Butler ran for a U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky. She died on June 16, 1957, in Covington.
Honors and legacy.
The composer J.A. Barlett wrote a march dedicated to Butler, "Miss Sousa Jr."
In 1995, she was inducted into the Women Band Directors International Hall of Fame for Distinguished Women Band Conductors.
Butler's band uniforms, photographs, programs, sheet music, and other memorabilia are in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.


Gillian Guzman

Gillian Guzman QC is a Gibraltarian lawyer who is the first woman to be appointed a QC in the territory. She specialises in civil and criminal litigation and mainly deals with human rights, personal injury, family and employment issues.
Guzman studied law at the University of Wales in Cardiff. She was called to the Gibraltar Bar in 1994. In 2004, when the Gibraltar Judiciary hosted the first Human Rights Symposium ever in Gibraltar, Guzman was asked to chair it. She was a panelist on Human Rights of the Child, along with the likes of Dame Elizabeth Butler Sloss, Lady Justice Angawa and Nicholas Critelli. She has also served as junior counsel to the Leading London Counsel with Edward Fitzgerald QC on the largest fraud trial ever to involve Gibraltar. In 2006 she became chair of the Industrial Tribunal. Working for Hassans, the largest law firm in Gibraltar, she has represented a range of clients including the Gibraltar Health Authority on legislation and employment concerns. In March 2012 she was invited to the Queens Counsel.
Guzman is the first woman to be appointed QC in Gibraltar and the youngest woman to ever be appointed QC at the age of 29 according to "Gibraltar International".


Sarah Montague

Sarah Anne Louise Montague, Lady Brooke (born 8 February 1966), is a British journalist, formerly a regular presenter of the BBC Radio 4 current affairs programme, "Today". After 18 years, she left the programme in April 2018 lead on the lunchtime news broadcast, "The World at One".
Early life.
Montague was born to John Montague, a Colonel in the British Army, and Mary (née O'Malley) on Guernsey, a British Crown dependency and one of the Channel Islands. After attending Blanchelande College, a local independent school for girls, she read biology at the University of Bristol, gaining a BSc.
Career.
Montague's first occupation was as a stockbroker for County NatWest and then a Eurobond dealer with NatWest Capital Markets in London. She then went into business in London with the owner of men's clothing retailer Charles Tyrwhitt.
Montague began her journalistic career with Channel Television in 1991. She joined Reuters in January 1995 and then became business correspondent for Sky News in January 1996.
She joined the BBC during October 1997, and presented "Newsnight" and BBC News, before joining the "Today" news programme on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. She presented the very first programme on BBC News 24 with Gavin Esler on 9 November 1997. She has also presented "HARDtalk" on BBC News. In December 2008, she hosted BBC World's "Nobel Minds" in the library of the Royal Palace, Stockholm. The 2008 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Economics, and Literature had a round-table discussion on issues of global concern and their own contributions to the world of knowledge.
On 6 November 2010, Montague broke a strike at the BBC called by the National Union of Journalists. She arrived to present the "Today" programme at 3:30 am, along with fellow presenter Evan Davis, thereby not technically crossing the picket line. On 15 July 2011, she again broke an NUJ strike by presenting "Today" with Justin Webb, again by arriving early.
In 2013, she was awarded an honorary degree Doctor of Letters by the University of Sussex. On 10 February 2015, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa from the University of Bristol.
After 18 years, she left Radio 4’s flagship current affairs programme in April 2018 to take over the lead on the lunchtime news broadcast "The World at One" from Martha Kearney. She was earning much less than her male colleagues, with John Humphrys earning more than four times her salary. She described herself as "incandescent with rage" when she found out she was earning less than other presenters. In January 2020 Montague revealed that she had received a £400,000 settlement and an apology from the BBC for her unequal treatment.
In 2018, she was criticised for misattributing the Electoral Commission's findings that the Vote Leave campaign broke the law in the 2016 referendum, thereby protecting several government ministers from pressure to resign. She repeatedly referred to “these allegations”, when they were, in fact, the findings – the verdict – of the statutory body charged with protecting the 2016 referendum and the integrity of UK elections. The Electoral Commission finding and fine were overruled in court in July 2019. The defendant in the court case said "This raises serious questions about its [The Electoral Commission's] conduct both during and after the referendum.".
Personal life.
In 2002, Montague married Richard Christopher Brooke. They are friends of former Prime Minister David Cameron, with whom Brooke attended Eton College. Montague is the mother of three daughters and also has a stepdaughter. In 2012, her husband inherited the Brooke baronetcy


Anastasia Synn

Anastasia Synn is sideshow stunt performer and magician, and also a transhumanist and biohacker and cyborg rights activist. She is married to magician and comedian The Amazing Johnathan, whom she also manages.
Transhumanism and bio-hacking.
A frequent speaker at magic, Transhumanist and biohacking conferences, she currently has 26 implants, including the largest magnet ever implanted into a person, as well as a sound-transmitting magnet implanted into the tragus of her ear. She had all of these implants surgically installed by a nurse and an underground DIY-surgeon.
She has used these implants to perform magic tricks, appearing on national television in the United States, on "". This performance was named by "BioHacking News" as one of the top biohacking moments of 2018.
Her biohacking is part of the DIYbio cyborg subculture called "grinding," which developed out of the magnets being used in the body modification subculture instead being used as a hack to acquire an "electromagnetic sense." Around half of Synn's implants are microchips, which she programs to give herself heightened senses and abilities, such as opening locks, turning on her computer, and the like.
Synn has spoken before the Nevada State Senate to oppose a 2019 proposal for a microchip implant ban and her testimony influenced state senator Melanie Scheible to oppose the ban.
The Amazing Johnathan.
Synn was married to the magician The Amazing Johnathan at A Special Memory Chapel in Las Vegas in June 2014, in a ceremony attended by fellow magicians David Copperfield, Penn & Teller, and Jeff McBride, as well as the comedian Gallagher. Their wedding reception was at Geisha House, Las Vegas. Together they host annual parties covered by the Las Vegas press. They met while he was doing a six year run at the Harmon Theater. She has frequently performed shows with him, often taking over for him halfway through when he becomes fatigued.
Media appearances and performances.
She has been featured widely in the media, including in a 2010 feature in "Las Vegas Weekly", and in articles about biohacking, including in a 2018 "Gizmodo" science feature.
She has appeared in "The Verge's" 2012 web documentary on biohacking, entitled "A Journey Into Cyborg America," as well as "Zoomin Next's" "Life of Cyborgs Episode Six: The Cybernetic Magician."
A "widely regarded stage performer," Synn has performed "shocking" needle penetrations of her muscles, and has performed on national television in the United States during a 2018 episode "Masters of Illusion" with The Amazing Johnathan, and in a solo performance during a September 2018 episode of "Penn and Teller's Fool Us." In Australia, she appeared on an episode of James Galea's "Best Trick Ever" on ABC2. She has been featured at numerous live performance venues, including Scot Nery's Boobie Trap and Brookledge Follies.
She was featured on the cover of the international magic magazine "Vanish" for September 2018.
She is featured in the 2019 feature documentary "The Amazing Johnathan Documentary" directed by Benjamin Berman.


Diane Martel

Diane Martel (also known as Bucky Chrome) is an American music video director and choreographer.
Personal life.
Diane Martel has properties in New York City and Los Angeles.
Awards.
Diane Martel was nominated for the Video of the Year for her work in “Blurred Lines” – Robin Thicke feat. Pharrell & T.I. in 2013.


Aiman Umarova

Aiman Umarova (born Zhambyl province, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakh human rights lawyer. She won an International Women of Courage Award in 2018.
Life.
She is a defense attorney and member of the Almaty Regional Bar Association.
She represented the Presidential candidate Vladimir Kozlov.
She works to rehabilitate women connected with extremist groups.


Mary Bennett (lighthouse keeper)

Mary Jane Bennett ( Hebden, 1816 – 6 July 1885) was the first official lighthouse keeper in New Zealand, and the only woman to ever hold the role.
Hebden emigrated to New Zealand in 1840 and was soon married to George White Bennett. In 1852 he took the position of lighthouse keeper at Pencarrow Head. Following the death of her husband in 1855, she continued to operate the lighthouse. In January 1859 a proper lighthouse was built and Bennett was officially appointed as keeper. Pencarrow Lighthouse was the first permanent lighthouse in New Zealand.


Lizzi Ceniceros

Rocío Elizabeth Ceniceros Mirabal (born April 22, 1973), better known as Lizzi Ceniceros, is a Mexican pianist and orchestra director.
Biography.
Lizzi Ceniceros was born in Mexico City on April 22, 1973. She began her musical studies at age 12, and began to lead choirs and musical ensembles five years later. In 2000, she founded the Salesian Youth Orchestra, which she continues to conduct.
She is the founding partner and director of the Counterpoint Business Group Council, and co-founder of the Manos a la Obra foundation. In 2019, she founded and directed the Ibero-American Orchestra.
She is director of the Mexico Counterpoint Orchestra, which participated in the Eurochestries Festival in Quebec, Canada in 2016, and in Jonzac, France in 2018. She was in charge of the from 2014 to 2018. She has directed the Limón Concert Band and the Alajuela Concert Band in Costa Rica, the Symphony Orchestra of El Salvador, and the National Choir with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, as well as the youth orchestras of the Choir and Orchestra System of El Salvador.
She is the founder and director of the Guadalupano Children's Boarding Choir.
In 2019, she appeared in the Yorgos Lanthimos short film "Nimic".


Nita Lowey

Nita Sue Melnikoff Lowey ( ; born July 5, 1937) is an American politician who formerly served as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1989 until 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Lowey also served as co-Dean of the New York Congressional Delegation, along with former U.S. Representative Eliot Engel. Lowey's district was numbered as the 20th from 1989 to 1993, as the 18th from 1993 to 2013, and as the beginning in 2013. The district includes many of New York City's inner northern suburbs, such as White Plains, Purchase, Tarrytown, Mount Kisco, and Armonk. She was succeeded by fellow Democrat Mondaire Jones.
In 2018, Lowey became the first woman to chair the House Appropriations Committee. She announced on October 10, 2019, that she would retire and not run for re-election to Congress in 2020.
Early life, education, and early political career.
Lowey was born in the Bronx in New York City to Beatrice (Fleisher) and Jack Melnikoff. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and then Mount Holyoke College with a bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies.
Lowey worked for Mario Cuomo's 1974 campaign for lieutenant governor of New York. She then served as the assistant secretary of state of New York for 13 years.
U.S. House of Representatives.
Elections.
Lowey ran for the United States House of Representatives from New York's 20th congressional district in the 1988 election against incumbent Joe DioGuardi. She defeated DioGuardi. Her district was renumbered as the 18th district after the 1990 census and became the 17th after the 2010 census. For her entire tenure, Lowey represented a large slice of New York City's northern suburbs, including most of Westchester County and all of Rockland County. She used to represent some of the far northern portions of Queens and the Bronx until redistricting after the 2000 Census removed the New York City portion of her district.
Lowey considered running for the United States Senate in 2000, but stepped aside when First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy. Lowey was considered a top contender for appointment to Clinton's Senate seat after Clinton was nominated to be Secretary of State, but in a December 1, 2008, phone interview with the Associated Press, she stated that she was not interested in giving up her senior seat on the House Appropriations Committee.
In 2004, Lowey received 69% of the vote against political newcomer Richard A. Hoffman, a Wall Street investor and largely self-funded candidate who ran on a platform of opposing special interests and cutting federal taxes. Lowey emphasized her track record on homeland security issues, notably her work to reform the formula for distributing homeland security grants to states. In 2006, also against Hoffman, Lowey won with 70%. Lowey was re-elected to an eleventh term in 2008, with 68% of the vote against James C. Russell.
Tenure.
Lowey received an "A" on the liberal Drum Major Institute's 2005 scorecard. She received 12% on the Club for Growth's 2007 congressional scorecard. According to the conservative Heritage Foundation, Lowey consistently votes in support of the policies of the Democratic Party, and is seen as a strong and effective progressive voice in that legislative body.
Her voting record on mass surveillance earned her a "D" on the Stand Against Spying Congressional Scorecard, which was created by a coalition of organizations and individuals from across the political spectrum advocating for transparency and an end to mass surveillance.
Early in her Congressional career, Lowey sponsored an earmark for the purpose of "dredging the Mamaroneck Harbor." According to the local newspaper, "The Journal News", the dredging was proposed because "the harbor was becoming too shallow 'to accommodate the larger yachts.'"
In 2001–2002, Lowey served as the first female chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
One of the notable causes she supports is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in support of which she appeared at a congressional hearing accompanied by "Sesame Street" characters Bert and Ernie.
Lowey has been a vocal advocate for a Security Council Resolution on the conflict in Darfur. She is responsible for the $500 million in the Emergency Spending Bill for Aid in Darfur.
Lowey voted for HR 2454, the "Cap and Trade" legislation.
In early 2009, Lowey introduced the Transportation Security Workforce Enhancement Act, which calls for collective bargaining rights for federal workers at the TSA and Department of Homeland Security. However, some statements from the TSA dispute the necessity of collective bargaining.
She was strongly critical of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, which places limits on taxpayer-funded abortions in the context of the November 2009, Affordable Health Care for America Act. Because of the rancor and disruptions which marked many of the town hall meetings held in the summer of 2009 to discuss Health Care Reform, Lowey chose to present her point of view on Health Care Reform in a telephone conference call, the effectiveness of which was questioned by some of her constituents.
In 2018, the Democrats won the majority in the U.S House of Representatives and subsequently Congresswoman Lowey became the first Chairwoman of the House Committee on Appropriations. After she became chair, she negotiated a border security bill with Senator Richard Shelby that funded the government through 2020.
On October 10, 2019, two months after Democrat Mondaire Jones announced his intention to challenge her in a 2020 primary, Lowey announced she would not run for reelection in 2020.
For her tenure as the chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee in the 116th Congress, Lowey earned an "A" grade from the non-partisan Lugar Center's Congressional Oversight Hearing Index.
Iran deal.
Lowey announced her opposition to the nuclear deal with Iran, stating that
In my judgment, sufficient safeguards are not in place to address the risks associated with the agreement. Relieving UN sanctions on conventional arms and ballistic missiles and releasing billions of dollars to the Iranian regime could lead to a dangerous regional weapons race and enable Iran to bolster its funding of terrorists. The deal does not explicitly require Iran to fully disclose its previous military work to the IAEA's satisfaction before sanctions relief is provided, and inspectors will not have immediate access to the most suspicious facilities. There are no clear accountability measures regarding punishment for minor violations, which could encourage Iran to cheat.
2016 DNC superdelegate.
Like all Democratic members of Congress, Lowey was a superdelegate to the 2016, Democratic National Convention, pledged to support Hillary Clinton. Lowey's chief of staff, when asked by the "New York Daily News" whether Lowey might switch her support to candidate Bernie Sanders if Sanders were to win the New York State Democratic presidential primary, said "absolutely not... Hillary Clinton is Congresswoman Lowey's friend, colleague and her constituent, and she is behind her 100%."
Personal life.
Lowey is married to Stephen Lowey, a named partner in the law firm of Lowey Dannenberg Cohen & Hart, P.C., which is located in White Plains, NY. According to the West Corporation, his practice areas include securities law, antitrust law, and consumer protection. They have three children and eight grandchildren. The estimate of her personal asset wealth, based on financial disclosures members of Congress are required to provide (aside from that of personal residences and non-interest-bearing bank accounts), puts Rep. Lowey's wealth at $41.2 million in 2010, based largely on her husband's investments. This figure is derived from a special investigative series of asset wealth of all U.S. Congressional Representatives conducted by "The Washington Post".
Lowey is Jewish.


Kay George Roberts

Kay George Roberts (born September 15, 1950) is an American orchestral conductor and a professor of music at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. She is the founder and musical director of the New England Orchestra. She is recognized as the first woman and second African American to receive a doctorate in musical arts from Yale University. As of 2018, she is one of the few female African American conductors in the world.
Early life and education.
Roberts was born September 16, 1950 in Nashville, Tennessee. Roberts began playing the violin in the fourth grade for the Cermona Strings Youth ensemble. In 1964, she successfully auditioned for the Nashville Youth Symphony, which at the time was under the direction of Thor Johnson. At the age of 17, she was moved to the parent Nashville Symphony ensemble, where in 1971, she became the first violinist to represent the Nashville Symphony in the World Symphony Orchestra, which was directed by Arthur Fiedler.
In 1972, Roberts graduated from Fisk University with her Bachelor of Arts in Music. She later attended Yale University School of Music, where she graduated with her Masters in Music in Conducting and Violin Performance in 1975, then her Masters in Musical Arts in Conducting in 1976. Later in 1986, she became the first woman and second black person to receive a doctoral degree in orchestral conducting from Yale University.
Career and impact.
During her time at Fisk University, Roberts was a fellow at Tanglewood, where she worked with renowned composer Leonard Bernstein, serving as a violinist in his orchestra. During her time at Yale, she was under the tutelage of master composer Otto-Werner Muller, who later arranged for her to conduct lead performances at the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, which was her debut as a conductor, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She has also conducted workshops, master classes, and seminars with other famous composers, including Denis de Coteau, Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, and John Eliot Gardnier. Roberts is one of the only female African American conductors in the world.
In 1982, Roberts became the lead director of New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra. She also has guest conducted for orchestras across the world, including the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland, the Cleveland Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, and Bangkok Symphony in Thailand. In 1978, she joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell where she currently works. Roberts is also the founder and musical director of the New England Orchestra, and the principal conductor for Opera North, Inc. in Philadelphia. She also founded the UMass Lowell String project, which helps K-12 students receive musical education, and the importance of building positive relationships.
Awards and honors.
Roberts has received several awards throughout her career including "The Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition" from the U.S House of Representatives, for the work she has done in the community. She is also a recipient of the University of Massachusetts Presidents Public Service Award, and Distinguished Alumna of the Year, from the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO).


Linda Bouchard

Linda Bouchard (born 21 May 1957) is a Canadian composer and conductor. She is also an active conductor, teacher and producer.
Biography.
Bouchard was born in Montreal, Quebec, and was raised in Montreal, Quebec. She has a BA in music (Bennington College, Vermont, 1979) and an MMus in composition (Manhattan School of Music, New York City, 1982). Her teachers were Ransom Wilson, Sue Ann Kahn, Harvey Sollberger (flute), David Gilbert and Arthur Weisberg (conducting), and Elias Tanenbaum, Ursula Mamlock and Henry Brant (composition).
She has cited Henry Brant as a major influence in her music. She has experimented with different spatial placements of performers, both as a composer and as a conductor. Her music is characterized by timbral explorations and percussive explosions.
Bouchard went to the U.S. in 1977 to study composition with Henry Brant. She lived in New York City from 1979 to 1990, where she composed, led new music ensembles, and made orchestral arrangements for The Washington Ballet, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and various churches in the New York metropolitan area. She was Assistant Conductor for New York Children's Free Opera from 1985 to 1988 and guest-conducted the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the American Dance Festival, the New York New Music Ensemble and others.
In 1991, Bouchard returned to Montreal in time for the world premiere of her composition “Elan” with l’Orchestre Métropolitain. She was composer-in-residence from 1992 to 1995 with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada.
In 1997, she moved to San Francisco, where she currently resides with her husband and son.
In 1999, Bouchard received first prize for “Composer of the Year” from le Conseil Québecois de la Culture and the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts. Her works received five PROCAN and SOCAN awards. Her honors in the U.S. include first prizes from the Princeton Composition Contest, the Indiana State Competition, and the National Association of Composers USA Contest and a Fromm Music Foundation Award from Harvard University.
In 2005, Bouchard founded New Experimental Music, Art and Production (NEXMAP), a nonprofit arts organization that explores the intersection of traditional artistic practices and new technologies. She served as artistic director until December 2015. That year she received a Fleck Fellowship Award at the Banff Center and was also invited as a Master Instructor in their Music Workshop Program. Bouchard was a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley during the Spring 2016,
Bouchard’s latest interdisciplinary projects include “All Caps No Space,” which has been performed in San Francisco, Vancouver and The Banff Centre for the Arts. She wrote a score for Detour Inc., a San Francisco–based startup that creates unique and innovative documentary tours all over the world. Her score is used for architecture tours in San Francisco, Berlin and London.
In September 2017, Bouchard received a multiyear grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to “Research and Create". Her project titled “Live Structures” will unfold over the next two years with collaborations and partnerships with François Houle, Philippe Pasquier at Metacreation in Vancouver, Lori Freedman and Sandeep Bhagwati at Matralab in Montreal and with Kyle Bruckmann in San Francisco.


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Myriam Colombi

Myriam Colombi (23 February 1940 – 21 April 2021) was a French film, television and stage actress. She was theatre director of the Théâtre Montparnasse.


Dorethea van der Merwe

Dorethea van der Merwe (also known as Dorethea Kraft and sometimes incorrectly referred to as "Dorothea") was the first woman hanged under the Union of South Africa. In 1921 she was convicted of the murder of Louis Tumpowski. He had been murdered on her farm, Treurfontein ("Sorrow fountain"), in Lichtenburg, Transvaal in 1918.
Treurfontein farm.
The present-day town of Coligny is situated on Treurfontein farm. It has been the site of tragic events both before and after the murder of Louis Tumpowski. In 1914 General Louis Botha announced his intention to invade South West Africa, then referred to locally as German West Africa, as part of the assistance of Great Britain during the First World War. Koos de la Rey was amongst those opposed to it and travelled to a meeting in Potchefstroom, via a gathering at the farm, where he was to meet senior military officials. He was shot and killed at a police road-block near the farm. Official accounts of the incident vary, with some stating that de la Rey did not stop at the road-block, while others state that his vehicle was mistaken for one belonging to the Foster gang. The day after the funeral a meeting was held at the farm and tensions ran high as it was suspected that de la Rey had been killed deliberately.
The farm belonged to Dorethea van der Merwe who was then using the name Dorethea Kraft. Records of her early life are not readily available but it is believed that she had either been divorced or widowed and was trying to eke out an existence on the farm with the help of her daughter, Polly and the black labourers. Several seasons of severe drought coupled with poor soil quality had resulted in her efforts being reduced to subsistence farming, which was further exacerbated by the common practice amongst the farm workers of being recalcitrant and not accepting instructions from women.
Victim.
Louis Tumpowski was a Jewish immigrant from the United States of America who arrived in South Africa in 1887 at the age of twenty-five. He made his way to Johannesburg, which was a small but rapidly expanding mining town at that time, with the intention of selling general provisions to the gold mine workers and prospectors. Even as his business prospered he would still personally visit farms and smallholdings in the area to obtain fresh supplies and this was how the 54 year old Tumpowski met Dorethea Kraft.
Contract.
Although Kraft had little to sell to Tumpowski, she engaged him in conversation and she asked him to find a manager to run the farm for her. He returned with the proposal that he would rent the farm for £25 a year while Kraft and her daughter could remain on the farm. She was very pleased with this idea and on 21 May 1914 she signed the lease-agreement that Tumpowski's lawyers had written, without reading the fine-print. As an added bonus for him, Tumpowski not only managed the farm but also "kept Dorethea's bed warm at night."
The situation at the farm did not improve and Kraft decided that it would be better for her, and for her daughter, to sell the farm as the land prices had increased dramatically. She would be able to make a large enough profit for them to live on. Furthermore, Tumpowski did not seem inclined to marry her.
However, on learning of Kraft's plan, Tumpowski showed her the contract she had signed that would allow him to buy the land at less than half of its value at that time. Kraft was angry that she had been cheated and more so at herself for not reading the fine-print. She decided to use "her feminine wiles" to convince Tumpowski to marry her and would then nullify the contract in their pre-nuptial agreement. Tumpowski saw no reason to marry her and refused.
Witchdoctor.
Kraft decided that she needed the assistance of a local witchdoctor, a coloured man named Jim Bird (sometimes referred to as 'Jim Burds' or 'Whiskers') who lived on a neighbouring farm. She got a love potion from him but Tumpowski proved to be immune to it. The only effect it had was to cause cramps and an upset stomach. Tumpowski accused Kraft of trying to kill him and from then on refused to eat or drink anything she had made.
A second attempt at a magical potion was made by Jim Bird, which involved a lock of Tumpowski's hair mixed with the magic potion, placed in a matchbox and buried under his door. This potion was supposed to kill Tumpowski but it had no effect.
Accomplices.
In 1918, Hermanus Lambertus Swartz, an army deserter came to Treurfontein looking for work and Kraft saw this as an opportunity. Swartz soon became Polly's suitor but also slept with Kraft on occasion. Swartz saw the opportunity to become the owner of Treurfontein if he married Polly and got rid of Tumpowski. He suggested to Kraft that she stop trying to use magic potions and just kill Tumpowski. He also suggested that Jim Bird would commit the murder. Bird agreed, for the price of £100.
Murder.
On the evening of 2 February 1918 a heavy thunderstorm broke over the farm. Kraft, Swartz, Bird and three labourers gathered in the farmhouse kitchen while Polly remained in her bedroom. Swartz opened Tumpowski's bedroom door and shoved Bird into the room. Bird attacked the man with a "knopkierie" and tried to leave but Swartz wasn't convinced that Tumpowski was dead and kept sending him back to finish the job. Eventually, Kraft held Tumpowski's hands while Swartz strangled him with a leather thong and then cut his throat. Kraft asked bird to use his magic to hide Tumpowski's blood and offered to pay him an additional £100 but Bird fled the scene. Kraft, Swartz and the labourers buried Tumpowski's body outside near a rubbish dump. While they were digging the grave a knocking was heard at the front door of the house. It was a couple with a sick child that had come to the farmhouse seeking help. No one answered the door and the lights in the house were turned off. Eventually the couple left but they had heard the sounds of the digging. By the next day the storm had washed all traces of the murder away.
Aftermath.
Polly left the next day for Johannesburg and Kraft complained to the neighbours that Tumpowski had abandoned the farm. Kraft went to stay with one of the neighbours for a while under the pretence that she was afraid to live alone at the farm. A potential buyer for the farm appeared but Kraft couldn't negotiate a deal with him as he knew that Tumpowski had first right to purchase the property and he wanted to negotiate with Tumpowski.
Another neighbour, Michael Denyusschen, did not accept Kraft's story and eventually informed the local police of his suspicions. Denyusschen's cousin, Johanna wrote to Tumpowski's sister, Mrs Saltman, in Rhodesia telling her of Tumpowski's disappearance.
The person who wanted to purchase the farm also got in contact with Mrs Saltman and in light of this and the letter from Johanna, Mrs Saltman sent her husband to the farm to investigate and contacted the police, who then visited Treurfontein. Kraft claimed that Trumpowski had left without paying the annual rent of £25 and went so far as to try to claim it from Mrs Saltman. Kraft claimed that Trumpowski had absconded most probably to avoid other debts he had incurred. However, Saltman knew that Trumpowski was not in any kind of financial distress.
Investigation.
The police became aware of the option clause in the rental agreement between Kraft and Tumpowski but without a body they would not pursue the matter. It took until 20 July 1920 before the police decided to conduct a full-scale search of the farm and to dig up the garden, drain the well, demolish walls and lift floorboards. The on-site investigation lasted six weeks and the manual labour was performed by a small band of convicts. They found nothing and in desperation the police offered a reward of £100 for any information.
The police investigation led to John Bird and on 20 August 1920 they interviewed him. It appears that his fear of the police was greater than his faith in his witchcraft as he quickly capitulated under police questioning and admitted his part in the murder. He identified the other parties involved but could not tell the police what had happened to the body as he had fled the scene earlier. Bird was forced to join the convicts in the search for the body.
A torrential rainstorm caused the ground to subside at the burial site and on 22 September 1920 the body was located, by Bird, near the rubbish dump. Although badly decomposed, a signet ring was used to identify the body as that of Tumpowski. His boots were also identified by a local cobbler.
Dorethea Kraft (who had in the interim married a man named van der Merwe), Swartz and the three labourers were arrested for murder.
Trial.
The trial was held at Potchefstroom on 13 June 1921. As this was the first trial of a white women for murder the public galleries at the trial were very well attended.
During the trial it was revealed that the cause of death was the fractured skull Tumpowski had suffered at the hands of Bird. Bird became a Crown witness in exchange for leniency. He claimed that Kraft had rewarded him with money and sexual favours for his participation in the murder. She did not deny this.
Kraft and Swartz were both sentenced to death, while the three labourers were acquitted. They were both hanged at Pretoria Central Prison in 1921.


Maria Daelder

Maria Daelder (1627–1706), was a Swedish businessperson, wine and textile trader and banker.
Maria Daelder was born in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She married the wealthy wine merchant Sibrant Valck (1632–1681) and settled in the newly-founded Gothenburg in Sweden, a town where a large part of the inhabitants at this point was Dutch. Maria Daelder managed her own business separate from that of her husband; she imported and sold wine and textile and managed a successful banking business where she lent clients money for interest. Her business is evident from at least the years 1666–1676, from which her account books are preserved. Her business has been the object of research and is remarkable because of the following: according to the law of the time, a married woman was a legal minor under the guardianship of her husband and thus had no legal right to manage business of her own separate from her husband (though it was common for wives to assist their husbands in their business). Maria Daelder, however, appears to have managed her own affairs completely separate from her husband's, with her own account books and without his legal interference, evidently with his support. She was reportedly successful and owned a fortune at the time of her death.


Coralie Ling

Coralie Ling (born 1939) is an ordained Australian clergy person. She was the second woman ordained in the Methodist Church of Australasia, and the first Methodist woman ordained in the state of Victoria. In 1977, she became a minister in the Uniting Church of Australia, when it was formed as a merger of Methodist, Congregationalist and Presbyterian churches.
Biography.
Born in Brunswick, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Coralie Ling is the daughter of Stanley and Mavis Ling. She went to Dandenong High School, and later completed a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne. After graduating, she taught for three years.
Ling was spiritually inclined as a young woman, and had been active in youth church groups. After teaching, she decided to study to become a deaconess in the Methodist Church. At that point, the Methodist Church in Australia did not allow the ordination of women to the pastoral ministry. Instead, they had established the order of deaconesses for women interested in serving a pastoral role. Ling completed a Bachelor of Ministry degree, and then worked full-time as a deaconess in Ballerat, Victoria.
After years of debate on women's ordination, in 1966, the General Council of the Methodist Church in Australia allowed Annual Conferences (the regional Methodist bodies) to accept women candidates for ministry. These candidates were first accepted in 1968.
Ling was ordained on 23 October 1969. She was the first woman to be ordained in the Methodist Church in the state of Victoria, and only the second Methodist woman to be ordained in the Australia. Her ordination came only a few weeks after that of Margaret Sanders, who was ordained in Perth. In 1977, the Methodist Church of Australasia merged with the Congregational churches and Presbyterian churches to become the Uniting Church in Australia.
In 1991, Ling became the pastor at Fitzroy Uniting Church, in Fitzroy, Victoria. In 1999, she completed a PhD through the Doctor of Ministries in Feminist Theologies Program, a program of San Francisco Theological Seminary established by feminist theologian Letty Russell.
Ling retired from the ministry in 2005.
In 2019, she was featured in a show called "Beachside Stories" in the Gasworks Theatre in Albert Park, Victoria. She performed in a brief one-woman act, written by Clare Mendes.


Neta Dobrin

Neta Dobrin (, born 27 October 1975) is a former Israeli politician who briefly served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between February and April 2006.
Biography.
Born in Safed, Dobrin gained a BA in education, sociology and anthropology at the University of Haifa, before studying for an MBA with the Israeli branch of the University of Derby. She also completed the first year of law studies at Sha'arei Mishpat College. Whilst at the University of Haifa, she was the representative for sociology students.
In 1998 she was elected onto Haifa city council, and chaired its committee for youth between 1998 and 2003, when she left the council. For the 2003 elections she was placed 32nd on the Labor Party's list, but missed out on a seat when the party won only 19 seats. However, she entered the Knesset on 15 February 2006 as a replacement for Orna Angel (who herself had only replaced Sofa Landver a week before). She lost her seat following the March 2006 elections.


Robin Tanner (minister)

Reverend Robin Noelle Tanner is an American Unitarian Universalist minister notable for her activism for the causes of religious freedom and civil rights. Reverend Tanner is the Minister of Worship and Outreach at Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Summit. From 2010 to 2016, she was lead minister at the Piedmont Unitarian Universalist Church in Charlotte and Salisbury in North Carolina. Tanner is a lesbian who married her partner in 2014 and has performed marriage services for same-sex couples. In 2014, Tanner joined the United Church of Christ in an innovative lawsuit challenging prohibitions against marrying same-sex couples. This lawsuit took the novel position that the laws restricted the ministers' freedom of religion. The suit was successful: On October 10, 2014, the federal district court for western North Carolina struck down the ban on same-sex marriage. Reverend Tanner also worked to overturn HB2 (more formally the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act), the North Carolina law that was passed in March 2016 to ban individuals from using a public bathroom that does not match the person's biological sex. The law also prevented cities from passing rules to protect gay and transgender people from discrimination. In spite of challenges and an apparent agreement between the city of Charlotte and the state to repeal both the Charlotte anti-discrimination ordinances and HB2, HB2 remains in effect. She is an advocate for equal opportunity, voting rights for Latino and African-Americans, raising the minimum wage, marriage equality, as well as other issues. In July 2017, she was arrested while protesting outside the office of senator Mitch McConnell, as part of an effort of "moral obedience" or civil disobedience, to espouse the cause of health care being a fundamental human right. In January 2017, she began serving as the Minister of Worship and Outreach at the Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Summit, New Jersey. In July 2017, Tanner protested the GOP healthcare plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act by bringing a coffin to the offices of congressional leaders, and was arrested for her civil disobedience.


Marie Sara

Marie Sara (born Marie Bourseiller; born June 27, 1964 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is known for being a female bullfighter. In 1991 she was Europe's only female rejoneador (rejoneadora). Jean-Luc Godard is her godfather.
She was born to director Antoine Bourseiller and actress Chantal Darget (born Marie Chantal Chauvet). Rosalie Varda is her paternal half-sister. Christophe Bourseiller (né Gintzburger) is her maternal half-brother.
She will be a candidate for En Marche! in the 2017 Legislative Elections in France.


Winifred Kiek

Winifred Kiek (; 1884-1975) was the first woman to be ordained in the Christian Ministry in Australia. She was ordained on 13 June 1927 in South Australia to the Congregational Union of Australia (now the Uniting Church in Australia).
Personal life.
Winifred was born in Manchester, England to John Robert Jackson, a tea salesman, and his wife Margaret, née Harker, who were Quakers
Winifred was educated at Urmston Higher Grade School, and at 16 she won a scholarship to Manchester Pupil Teacher Training Centre. In 1904 she entered the Victoria University of Manchester (B.A., 1907) where she won the university prize in logic; she became a schoolteacher.
She married Edward Sidney Kiek, a Congregational church minister, on 28 August 1911 at the Chorlton Road Congregational Church, Manchester; they had three children. After World War One, they migrated to Adelaide, South Australia where Edward Kiek became head of Parkin Congregational Theological College (later Parkin-Wesley College and now Uniting College for Leadership and Theology) in 1920.
Winifred died at Victor Harbor on 23 May 1975.
Ordination and work.
She studied theology and in 1923 was the first woman to graduate with a Bachelor of Divinity (B.D.) from the Melbourne College of Divinity. In 1929 she took an M.A. in philosophy at the University of Adelaide.
From 1926 Winifred preached in the new Colonel Light Gardens Congregational Union Church (now Colonel Light Gardens Uniting Church). This was the church in which she was ordained in 1927, and where she served until 1933. She also served as minister of Knoxville Congregational Church in 1939-46, and preached frequently in Congregational and other churches. She lectured at Parkin College from 1930.
Winifred Kiek championed sexual equality and the women's movement from her arrival in South Australia. She was a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in South Australia and president in 1926; a member of the National Council of Women from the early 1920s, a convenor of its committee on equal moral standards in 1927-1931 and member of its committee for peace and arbitration from 1938-1950. She held office in the Women's Non-Party Association (later League of Women Voters), and in the Australian Federation of Women Voters. She was twice vice-chair of the Congregational Union of South Australia and acting chair in 1944-1945. She was also a member of the Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association, where she was a delegate to women's conferences in New Zealand (1952), Sri Lanka (1955), Iran (1960) and Japan (1966).
After World War II Winifred Kiek became the World Council of Churches liaison officer in Australia for work among women; in 1950 she joined the council's commission on the work of women in the Churches and attended its Oxford meeting in 1952. In 1953-56 she was convenor of the Australian Council of Churches commission on the co-operation of men and women in the Church, about which she wrote in "We of One House" (Sydney, 1954). She was twice vice-chairman of the Congregational Union of South Australia and acting chairman in 1944-45.
Winifred Kiek Scholarship.
The Winifred Kiek Scholarship for theological education of women in leadership, or charitable projects in the Asia-Pacific Region was named in her honor. The inaugural award was made in 1965. It is administered by Australian Church Women Inc. A notable recipient is Rev. Violet Sampa Bredt, who was a member of parliament in democratic Zambia, and was the first woman ordained in that country.
Kiek Place, in the Canberra suburb of Chisholm, is named for Kiek and her husband.


Mary Rozet Smith

Mary Rozet Smith (December 23, 1868 – February 22, 1934) was a Chicago-born US philanthropist who was one of the trustees and benefactors of Hull House. She was the companion of activist Jane Addams for over thirty years. Smith provided the financing for the Hull House Music School and donated the school's organ as a memorial to her mother. She was active in several social betterment societies in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century.
Biography.
Mary Rozet Smith was born on 23 December 1868 in Chicago, Illinois to Sarah (née Rozet) and Charles Mather Smith. She was raised in a wealthy, privileged home, the daughter of the Bradner-Smith Paper Company president. As was typical of women of her social class, she did not attend university. As a young woman, she participated in activities usual to her social standing, as part of the Social Register and traveled extensively in Europe.
She became involved in Hull House in 1890, shortly after its founding, becoming one of its major financial contributors and serving as one of the trustees. Around the same time, Eleanor Sophia Smith (no relation) also joined Hull House and the women began collaborating on the development a music school. Smith provided the financial backing to create the school in 1893 and hire teachers and Eleanor became the director of the school. In 1902, she donated a Hook and Hastings pipe organ in honor of her mother to Hull House for the music school.
In addition to her philanthropy at Hull House, Smith served on the executive committee of the Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago and was a contributor to the Henry Booth House, another of Chicago's settlement houses. She was also active on the advisory board of the social worker's committee of the United Charities of Chicago for the DeKoven District. Not all of her philanthropy was focused through organizations, as she was known to provide direct aid to families. In one instance, she paid for the education, including university studies of three children, for a mother who had fled from her husband. At this time period, women's groups and organizations, often provided social services because governmental structure to do so was lacking. Smith was a member of many of these types of clubs, such as the Chicago Women's Club from 1888 and the Friday Club.
Smith was the companion and partner of Jane Addams for over 30 years and there has been much speculation of their life and relationship. Many of their letters were burned by Addams, but Addams referred to their relationship as a "marriage". They traveled together, co-owned a home in Maine, and were committed to each other. In 1895, after Addams had suffered from a bout with typhoid fever, she went abroad with Smith, traveling to London. There, they visited several settlement houses, including Oxford House, Browning House, Bermondsey Settlement and others. They proceeded on to Moscow and met Tolstoy, then traveled through southern Russia, into Poland and Germany, before returning to Chicago.
Early in 1934, Addams had a heart attack and Smith nursed her at her home, neglecting her own illness. Smith succumbed to pneumonia, fell into a coma and then died on 22 February 1934. Addams was considered too ill to descend the stairs to attend Smith's memorial service, which she could hear from her second-floor room.


Angele Giuliano

Angele Giuliano (born 30 January 1976) is a Maltese businesswoman and president of the Maltese Foundation for Women Entrepreneurs. Giuliano has been CEO and managing director at AcrossLimits since 2001, as well as an expert evaluator for the European Commission. She is also a business angel engaged in mentoring start-ups and entrepreneurs in Malta and internationally.
Biography.
Giuliano was born in Hamrun, the youngest of three sisters. After finishing her secondary education, she went on to study business and computing at the University of Malta. She later read for a master's degree in Innovation and Creativity at the Edward de Bono for the Design and Development of Thinking. After graduating Giuliano was invited to become a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta, tutoring students on eCommerce, business and technology.
In 2001, Giuliano founded AcrossLimits Ltd, an SME providing services in the fields of consultancy, research and IT development, and project management. As CEO and managing director of the company, Giuliano has developed eHealth and eLearning applications, consulted for a number of large public and private organisations on business innovation and internationalisation, and contributed to policy documents and white papers for clients including the European Parliament. Additionally, Giuliano has developed and managed a number of research and innovation projects with an array of European partners, and provides professional online development courses under the TrainingMalta brand.
Giuliano has acted as an expert evaluator for the European Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, the Ministry of Education, University and Research (Italy), the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation and the Malta Council for Science and Technology. She has also continued to lecture at the University of Malta. Giuliano has published a number of papers on technology, most recently on entry-points into STEM fields for young people, and contributed to books on technology and education.
Besides her position at AcrossLimits, Giuliano is also a business angel at Go Beyond Investing and Rising Tide 1 Female Investment Group. In this role, she evaluates business pitches relating to start-ups and scale-ups for the European market.
Giuliano is President of the Foundation for Women Entrepreneurs. In this role she has lobbied for better representation of women in the business world, particularly in Malta and in Europe. She has also acted as an expert and panelist for a number of panels on European women in business, and had strong links with the European Institute for Gender Equality.
Giuliano has long been involved in business mentoring and giving advice to prospective entrepreneurs. She acts to encourage women to take up IT and enter into business, something which she has pursued as an Ambassador for the eSkills Malta Foundation, as a rapporteur in European Commission workshops on women in IT and through interviews in the press.
Honours.
Giuliano has received a number of honours in the business field. In 1998 she was the winner of the EuroMed Multimedia Award, heading a team of 15 people. In 2009, she launched the SME Week in Brussels with the then-Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, Günter Verheugen. In 2018, she was the winner of the Malta Innovation Summit Award for the social enterprise iSmart.
Personal life.
Giuliano lives with her partner Antti Heikkilä and her son in Hamrun, Malta.