Esther Manheimer

Esther E. Manheimer is an American politician and attorney serving as the mayor of Asheville, North Carolina.
Early life and education.
Manheimer was born in Denmark to American citizens. She has two siblings. Her family returned to the United States when she was three, and she lived in San Diego; Olympia and Spokane, both in Washington and Bethesda, Maryland before moving to Asheville when she was 17.
Manheimer graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder, and she served as campus director of the American Movement for Israel and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning degrees in law and a Master of Public Administration.
Career.
After graduating from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Manheimer returned to Asheville, North Carolina in 2002. She was elected to the Asheville City Council in 2009 and served until 2013. She was elected mayor of Asheville in 2013.
In March 2016, Manheimer spoke out against the controversial Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, state legislation that eliminated anti-discrimination protections for the LGBT community.
Personal life.
Manheimer is married to Mark Harris. They have three sons. She is the third Jewish mayor of Asheville, after Ken Michalove in 1989 and Leni Sitnik in 1997.


Mary Frances Gerety

Mary Frances Gerety was the copywriter responsible for the "A Diamond is Forever" slogan created for De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. This famous slogan is still used today in advertising pertaining to diamonds.
Personal life.
Mary Frances Gerety, who primarily went by "Frances," was born in 1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism and was later a student at the University of Pennsylvania. Gerety lived alone in Wayne, Pennsylvania for most of her life and died in Derby, Pennsylvania at the age of 83 on April 11, 1999 .
N. W. Ayers.
Frances Gerety began working at the N. W. Ayer & Son advertising agency as a copywriter in 1943 and continued until 1970 . Gerety helped to create advertisements that were published in Vogue (magazine), Life (magazine), Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, Look (American magazine), and Harper's Bazaar.
"A Diamond is Forever".
Due to the decline of diamond sales after the Great Depression, the diamond company De Beers was desperate to increase marketing strategies. De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. hired N.W. Ayers & Son to advertise their diamonds in 1938. Since women in advertising were generally assigned to cases that only pertained to women, Gerety was the prime copywriter for the job. In 1948, Gerety was assigned to create a slogan that encapsulates the security and eternal romance that comes with owning a diamond.
Gerety scribbled the slogan “A Diamond is Forever” on a piece of paper late one night. The next morning, she presented the slogan to her associates at N. W. Ayers. Her associates were initially hesitant to use the slogan due to its strange grammar, but it eventually became one of the most recognized advertising slogans of its time. The slogan has been used in every De Beers ad since 1948 and continues to be used today.
In 1989, Gerety was honored at the 50th Anniversary for N.W. Ayers and De Beer’s anniversary in London for her work with De Beers. Advertising Age named “A Diamond is Forever” the slogan of the 20th century in
1999.
Fiction.
Gerety was portrayed in a fictional novel "The Engagements" by J. Courtney Sullivan.


Rebekah Mercer

Rebekah Mercer is an American heiress and Republican political donor who is the director of the Mercer Family Foundation. She began overseeing day-to-day operations of political projects for the Mercer family when the Mercers became involved in conservative causes. Her father, billionaire Robert Mercer, said in November 2017 that he had sold his stake in the news site Breitbart to his daughters. In August 2018, she funded and co-founded the social networking service Parler.
Early life and education.
Mercer is the daughter of Diana Lynne (Dean) and billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer; Rebekah is the second of the Mercers' three daughters. She was raised in Yorktown Heights, a suburb of New York. Mercer studied biology and mathematics at Stanford University and earned a master's degree in 1999 from Stanford in management science and engineering. She worked as a Wall Street trader at Renaissance Technologies, the hedge fund her father has helped lead, and, with her sisters, owned a gourmet cookie company, Ruby et Violette, which sells cookies online.
Political activities.
Mercer first became widely known in conservative circles in 2012 after Mitt Romney's defeat in the presidential election. She spoke to a group of wealthy conservative donors at New York's University Club about what the GOP had done wrong in canvassing and technology operations during the election cycle.
Mercer helped start "Reclaim New York" with Steve Bannon in 2013. The organization trains citizens to watch their government closely, and uses freedom-of-information laws to force the New York government to disclose public spending.
Mercer joined the board of the Heritage Foundation in 2014 as a trustee.
A September 2016 "Politico" headline called her "the most powerful woman in GOP politics." She has been more aligned with the anti-establishment part of the GOP than most other big Republican donors. Newsmax Media owner Christopher Ruddy called her the "First Lady of the Alt-Right".
Mercer supported Mitt Romney in 2012 and Ted Cruz for the 2016 presidential election. After Trump won the GOP nomination, she and her father switched their support to him. Mercer supported Jeff Sessions for Secretary of State over Mitt Romney.
2016 presidential election.
Mercer, along with her father, contributed $25 million to the 2016 presidential election.
During the 2016 U.S. presidential primaries, Mercer led Keep the Promise I, a Super PAC (political action committee) which was the largest outside benefactor of Ted Cruz.
In June 2016 after Trump won the primary, Mercer created the Defeat Crooked Hillary PAC, and ran the daily operations. The PAC was incorporated with the name Make America Number 1 at the Federal Election Commission and supported Donald Trump in the general election including making anti-Clinton ads.
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Mercer proposed creating a searchable database for Hillary Clinton's e-mails in the public domain and then forwarded this suggestion to several people, including Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix, who e-mailed a request to Julian Assange for Clinton's emails. Assange responded to the report by saying he denied Nix's request. Mercer worked with Steve Bannon to create the film "Clinton Cash". She has consulted extensively with former Democratic strategist and pollster Patrick Caddell on campaigns.
The Mercers stood behind Trump after the famous Access Hollywood tape was leaked in late 2016, dismissing Trump's claim of grabbing women's genitals against their will as "locker room braggadocio."
Donald Trump.
Although initially a supporter of Ted Cruz in the 2016 presidential election, Mercer aimed her support at GOP candidate Donald Trump in June 2016 after Cruz lost the primary. Mercer directs the Mercer Family Foundation and served on the Executive Committee of the transition team of United States President-elect Donald Trump.
In the Trump transition, Mercer helped in successfully lobbying against Mitt Romney as secretary of state and for Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general. People close to the transition said she had not favored Corey Lewandowski as possible Republican National Committee chair and that Lewandowski had reportedly resisted paying for services from data firm Cambridge Analytica–a company funded by the Mercers–early in the campaign, though a close associate of Mercer's denied the stories. Paul Manafort, Kellyanne Conway's predecessor as campaign director, was also said to be critical of Cambridge Analytica, which had worked for Ted Cruz and was financially backed by the Mercers. Conway reportedly said that after the inauguration, the expectation was that Mercer was likely to lead an outside group, funded by her father, aimed at bolstering Trump's agenda. It was assumed that Cambridge Analytica would also assist the group's efforts.
In 2010, Mercer bought six adjoining apartment units in Donald Trump's 41-story Heritage at Trump Place.
Steve Bannon.
The Mercers first introduced Steve Bannon to Trump. Mercer helped create the film "Clinton Cash" with Bannon, a top political adviser to Trump at the time. She has been one of Bannon's main financial contributors.
In late 2017, Bannon told several conservative donors that Mercer had pledged her financial support if he decided to run for president in 2020 against Trump. However, Mercer was frustrated by his comments to the media and disagreed with his public comments in support for Roy Moore, who was under fire for sexual misconduct allegations involving young girls. In January 2018 a person familiar with conversations between Mercer and Bannon said Mercer would no longer back Bannon financially. Mercer herself said that she had not spoken to Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, in many months and that she continued to support President Trump.
Breitbart News.
Mercer and her father, Robert Mercer were key financial benefactors for Breitbart News. Larry Solov, the CEO of Breitbart, said in February 2017 that they are part-owners. Robert Mercer announced in November 2017 that he had sold his stake in the website to his daughters.
Cambridge Analytica.
Cambridge Analytica was a privately held data mining and data analysis company with financial backing from the Mercers. The Mercers invested in the company after Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election. On May 1, 2018, Cambridge Analytica and its parent company filed for insolvency proceedings and closed operations. Alexander Tayler, a former director for Cambridge Analytica, was appointed director of Emerdata on March 28, 2018. Rebekah Mercer, Jennifer Mercer, Alexander Nix and who has links to Erik Prince are in leadership positions at Emerdata.
Parler.
In 2018, Mercer co-founded, and funded, the social media website Parler with John Matze and Jared Thomson. Mercer described herself in a Parler post as having "started Parler" with Matze.
Mercer allegedly fired Parler CEO John Matze on January 29, 2021.
American Museum of Natural History.
The Mercer family has contributed $4 million to the American Museum of Natural History, and Rebekah Mercer sat on the museum board of directors from 2013 to 2019. In January 2018, a protest by the group "Revolting Lesbians" called for Mercer's removal from the board. The protest followed the release of a letter from over 200 academics and scientists calling for the board to "end ties to anti-science propagandists and funders of climate science misinformation."
Tax records indicate that the Mercer family donated millions of dollars to organizations that reject the scientific consensus regarding climate change. In March 2018 a group called the "Clean Money Project" mounted a spoof campaign aimed at highlighting Mercer's positions on climate change and pressuring the museum to sever ties with her. In 2016, over 250 scientists penned an open letter calling for the museum to "end ties to anti-science propagandists and funders of climate science misinformation, and to have Rebekah Mercer leave the American Museum of Natural History Board of Trustees."
By the end of 2019 Mercer was no longer on the board.
Personal life.
Mercer studied at Stanford University where she met Sylvain Mirochnikoff. The couple married in 2003. In 2010, she bought six adjoining apartment units in Donald Trump's 41-story Heritage at Trump Place. Mercer left her trading job to home-school her four children. In 2016, Mirochnikoff, a native of France, was a managing director at Morgan Stanley. In 2017, the couple were divorcing.


Roberta Boyd

Roberta Beatrice "Bertha" Boyd (16 June 1862 – 10 January 1944), sometimes listed as Roberta Grace, was a Canadian lighthouse keeper and heroine known as the 'Grace Darling of the St. Croix'.
Early life.
Roberta was born on 16 June 1862 to John and Kate Boyd. Her father, John Boyd, was the keeper of the Spruce Point Light near St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Roberta and her mother would tend the light when her father was away.
St. Croix River rescue.
On 8 October 1882, Boyd saved two men whose sailing boat had overturned in the river, and rowed them back to shore. For this action she was awarded a gold watch by the Government of Canada with the words "In recognition of her humane exertions in saving life in the St. Croix River" inscribed on it; in addition, the Department of Marine and Fisheries presented her with a new boat with "Roberta Grace Boyd, Grace Darling of the Saint Croix" on the helm.
Later life.
After her father's death on 15 September 1892, Boyd became keeper of the light. She served as keeper at Spruce Point until at least 1922 (when records were no longer published).
Boyd married Herbert LeRoy Hannah on 18 October 1900 in The Ledge, St. Stephens Parish, New Brunswick.
She died on 10 January 1944.


Irene Larsen

Irene Larsen, known affectionately as “Princess Irene” throughout the worldwide community of magicians and illusionists, was a co-founder of the Magic Castle and the Academy of Magical Arts.
She was born Irene Stolz in Germany in 1936. In 1955, American magician John Daniel invited her to come up on stage to assist in a performance. She soon became a permanent part of the act. John Daniel nicknamed her “Princess Irene,” an honorary title she would keep for life, and two years later, they were married.
She divorced John Daniel in 1960 and began working as a magician’s assistant to the brothers Milt Larsen and Bill Larsen. In 1963, the three of them founded the Academy of Magical Arts and the Magic Castle. She was the first member of the AMA. Later that year, she and Bill Larsen were married.
She served as an ambassador for the Magic Castle and for the magical arts in general. While continuing to serve as her husband’s assistant, she also appeared on the Dean Martin Show, assisting Orson Welles with his own illusion act. She was an early and continuing voice advocating the ethical treatment of animals in magical acts. From 1963-1999, she served continuously as either editor or co-editor of Genii: the Conjurer's Magazine, a publication by, for, and about those in the illusionist community.


Noreen Green

Noreen Green is an American conductor and educator. She is Conductor and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, which she founded in 1994, and the Jewish Community Chorale, which she founded in 2020.
Early life and education.
Noreen Green was born in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, CA and grew up in Sherman Oaks. She received her Bachelor of Music Education degree, cum laude, from the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music; a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting, with distinction, from California State University, Northridge; and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California. Green participated in master classes in conducting led by Murry Sidlin at the Aspen Music School.
Green taught Choral Conducting at the University of Southern California, and was Assistant Professor of Music at California State University, Bakersfield and at California State University, Northridge.
Los Angeles Jewish Symphony.
On April 10, 1994, with encouragement from Murry Sidlin, Green founded the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony (LAJS), which is “dedicated to the performance and preservation of orchestral works of distinction which explore Jewish culture, heritage and experience.”
The LAJS has performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Ford Theatres, UCLA’s Royce Hall, the Gindi Auditorium at American Jewish University, the Soraya, and other venues. LAJS guest artists have included Hershey Felder, Theodore Bikel, Melissa Manchester, Billy Crystal, Tovah Feldshuh, Dave Koz and others.
Conducting career.
Green founded the Nowakowsky Chorale, a choir dedicated to the performance of the unpublished works of David Nowakowsky. For six years, she served as the West Coast Music Director of the David Nowakowsky Foundation and as Editor of the Nowakowsky manuscripts. Nine performance editions of his choral octavos, edited by Green, were published by Laurendale.
From 1994 to 2013, Green was Music Director and Conductor at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California. She has appeared as guest conductor with the Jerusalem Symphony and the Johannesburg Philharmonic. In 2015, she created the touring orchestra of the LAJS, the American Jewish Symphony, which made its debut in New York.
In February 2020, Dr. Green’s life and career was the subject of a Spotlight Series documentary by the Milken Archive of Jewish Music, which was featured on the Archive’s website and YouTube channel in conjunction with their Music Crossing Boundaries Festival.
Awards.
In 2012, Green received a Commendation from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for her contribution to the arts in Los Angeles. Other awards include a Recognition of Contribution from State Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield for organizing and conducting a 10th anniversary concert commemorating the attacks of 9/11; a Recognition from Congressman Brad Sherman; the Jewish Cultural Star Award; and the Golda Meir Award from the State of Israel Bonds.
In 2017, she was honored by Musical America as one of its Movers & Shapers, the Top 30 Musical America Professionals of the Year.
Personal life.
Since 1992 Green has been married to Dr. Ian Drew, MD, who serves as President of the LAJS. They have a son and a daughter, and reside in Encino, California.
Discography.
In 2011, the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony recorded Los Angeles-based composer Sarah Stanton’s Violin Concerto, Ora E Sempre, featuring Mark Kashper, its concertmaster, as violin soloist. It was released on the Amabile Strings label.
In 2017, the symphony recorded Philadelphia-based composer Andrea Clearfield’s oratorio "Women of Valor", featuring soloists Hila Plitmann, soprano, and Rinat Shaham, mezzo, with actress Tovah Feldshuh as narrator. The symphony previously presented the World Premiere of "Women of Valor" in 2000 at UCLA’s Royce Hall.
In 2019, the LAJS released "The Music of Eric Zeisl". The recording, conducted by Green, highlighted the works of Jewish composer Eric Zeisl and featured Mark Kashper, violinist, and baritone/narrator Michael Sokol.


Edith Wilton

Edith Wilton (before 1373 – 1430) was an English prioress at Carrow Abbey in Norwich.
Life.
Wilton began her long career as a nun before 14 February 1373 as on that day she was promoted to be a cellarer which was a position of some responsibility at Carrow Abbey. Wills from the 15th century document many alternate spellings of Carrow, such as "Carhoe", or "Carhowe"; or "Carehowe"; or "Carrowe".
Wilton was elected to be the prioress and her position became official on 6 January 1396. At that time there was about eleven nuns living at the priory with varying finances of about £118 per year.
In 1414 a dispute began over ownership between Wilton and the Prior of Holy Trinity. The dispute was with Robert de Burnham, Prior of Holy Trinity (1407–1427) of County Norwich. de Burnham Prior pleaded that Wilton was wrongly described as Prioress of Carrow as Richard I granted the City of Norwich to the citizens, and the city was in the County of Norfolk till Henry IV separated it and made it a County of itself, which granted the citizens jurisdiction over Carrowe as "within a parcel of the City of Norwich." The Prior further stated that Carrowe was in the parish of Bracondale which is in the County of Norfolk and was never in the City of Norwich. The court ruled in favor of Wilton stating that Carrow was a parcel of the City of Norwich.
Wilton also won litigation where she and another nun were accused of harbouring the murderers of William Koc of Trowse by his widow. Trowse had been killed in 1415 at a catedral property in Lakenham on 16 August 1415. Wilton had to travel to London to defend herself. She was arrested and was only released when her supporters from Norwich proved surety. The charges were not dropped until 1418 after many adjournments. In return Wilton accused the two monks of driving away her cattle. In October 1419 the nuns and the monks made peace. They agreed the jurisdiction of each of their houses and the expensive court cases ceased.
Death and legacy.
Wilton died in the first half of 1430. One of her successors was not so successful at running the priory. Thomas Wetherby was appointed by the bishop to manage the priory until a new prioress Margaret Pygot was again entrusted to manage without an overseer in 1445.


Clara database

The Clara database of women artists was a database named after Clara Peeters that was created and operated by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. It contained biographical information on 18,000 women visual artists of all time periods and nationalities. The information was drawn primarily from materials in NMWA's own archives, but various portraits used to document the entries were obtained from other libraries in the NMWA's network. The Clara database was maintained from 2008 to 2012 but is no longer being updated. It is accessible on the Wayback Machine. Some of the artist profiles from the database are now a featured component on the NMWA website.
The name was chosen because two of Clara's works that had been purchased by Wilhelmina Holladay formed the beginning of the museum's collection.


Perminder Mann

Perminder Mann is the CEO of Bonnier Books UK, the sixth largest publisher in the UK with sales of over £80m. Mann is recognized as one of the UK’s most powerful leaders and as a publishing innovator – one of the first to publish a social media influencer and for her work introducing inclusive workplace policy.
Mann holds the position of Chair of the Publisher’s Association Consumer Publishing Council, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the advisory board for Kingston University’s publishing program, and of the BBC100 steering group committee. She also appears annually in the UK’s top 100 most influential people in book publishing, a list compiled by the industry’s trade magazine, the "Bookseller", and in 2015 was named as one of the top 10 most influential people in publishing and writing, at the prestigious Hospital Club h100 awards.
Perminder Mann was the first CEO of a major publisher to announce the move to a full flexible working policy in 2020. Perminder is an advocate for inclusivity and collaboration in the workplace.
Career.
After studying at Kingston University, Mann began her career in publishing working for trade publishers Macmillan and Transworld, before moving on to work with two international independent publishers, Hinkler and Phidal Publishing. She then spent time in the toy industry, before returning to publishing to work for Bonnier Publishing, which rebranded as Bonnier Books UK in 2018.
During her time at Bonnier Books UK, she co-founded adult non-fiction imprint Blink Publishing. In 2014, the imprint became the first UK publisher to collaborate with a vlogger when it signed Alfie Deyes. Under Mann, Blink published "The Pointless Book", which was a 2014 bestseller.
In 2015 and 2016, Mann was named on "The Bookseller"s list of the 100 most influential people in publishing. She was also on the awards list of the top 10 most influential people in publishing and writing by the Hospital Club h100.
In 2017, Mann was promoted to CEO of Bonnier Books UK, heading the UK group. In the same year, she secured the deal for Bonnier Books UK to partner with Disney on a range of titles. She was subsequently recognised as one of the most powerful BAME leaders in the UK She was the only person from the book publishing industry to appear on the list.
In 2020, Mann was appointed to Chair of the Publisher’s Association Consumer Publishing Council. In the same year, Bonnier Books UK was awarded the London Book Fair International Excellence Award for Inclusivity in Publishing. Mann was the first CEO of a major UK publisher to announce the move to a full flexible working policy for all office staff.


Laurie Smith

Laurie Smith (born 1952) is Sheriff of Santa Clara County, California, and the first female County Sheriff in the history of the state.
Early life and education.
Laurie Smith is a native of Michigan, where she lived until completion of high school. In 1969 she relocated to San Jose, California, for college and to begin her law enforcement career. Smith has a bachelor's degree in Administration of Justice from San Jose State University and a master's degree in Business Management from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is a graduate of the California Command College and of the FBI National Academy and National Executive Institute.
Career.
Deputy Sheriff, 1973-1998.
Smith began her career at the Sheriff's Office in 1973, working as a Matron (the former title for a female Sheriff's Deputy) at the Santa Clara County Jail until 1976. She then became one of the first female permanent undercover vice cops. In three years in this position, she posed as a prostitute, a vendor of stolen goods, and a drug user. She next worked in the patrol division, then became a watch commander over the jails.
Assistant Sheriff, 1990-1998.
In 1990, Sheriff Chuck Gillingham promoted her to Assistant Sheriff. (At the time, Gillingham was criticized for promoting Smith and two others over other candidates of higher rank, in particular for changing the job description to make a sergeant, her rank at the time, eligible for the post of Assistant Sheriff.) In 1992, a male deputy filed an internal complaint against Smith after being transferred out of the narcotics unit while a female deputy with less seniority was allowed to remain. Smith stated that it was not her decision. The same deputy later filed a sexual harassment complaint against Smith, but she was found innocent.
Sheriff, 1998-present.
After eight years as Assistant, Smith was elected Sheriff of Santa Clara County on November 3, 1998 by a substantial margin and took office on December 15, 1998, becoming the first female sheriff in California.
1998-2010.
After Santa Clara County District Attorney Dolores Carr made a controversial decision not to prosecute on grounds of insufficient evidence in an alleged rape of a 17-year-old in San Jose in March 2007, Sheriff Smith declared the case "still open" and that she believed a sexual assault did occur. Carr submitted the case to the Office of the State Attorney General for review.
Fourth term, 2010-2014.
In 2010, "Metro Silicon Valley" credited Smith with putting the sheriff's office on a sound and efficient basis. She was re-elected in 2010.
A lawsuit in 2011 claimed that Smith issues concealed carry permits preferentially to friends and donors.
In 2012, there was controversy over Smith's assigning a bodyguard to Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa, Jr., who was ultimately convicted of misuse of funds and other crimes. The bodyguard was a family friend of Shirakawa's whose brother was a political advisor, and was reassigned by the Sheriff's Office after criticism.
Fifth term, 2014-2018.
In June 2014 Smith won election for a fifth term against retired Sheriff's Captain Kevin Jensen, who had been endorsed by the Santa Clara County Deputy Sheriffs' Association and the Santa Clara County Correctional Peace Officers' Association.
On August 27, 2015, mentally-ill inmate Michael Tyree was beaten to death by three jail guards who were convicted of second-degree murder in 2017.
Two inmates escaped from custody in San Jose in November 2016. Two inmates escaped from custody in Palo Alto in November 2017.
On June 5, 2018, Smith ran for re-election to her sixth term against five challengers including former undersheriff John Hirokawa and Deputy Joseph LaJeunesse. The results required the first run-off of her career, against Hirokawa, on November 6, 2018; Smith was re-elected.
Sixth term, 2018-2022.
In 2019, The Mercury News and affiliates uncovered that she issued CCW permits in a "pay for play" fashion to those who donate money to her campaign reelection funds. The Santa Clara County DA opened an investigation and on August 7, 2020, four individuals, including Capt. James Jensen, were indicted by a grand jury. On November 20, 2020, Undersheriff Rick Sung was also indicted.
Organizations.
, Smith has been on the Salvation Army Board of Directors, a member of Rotary International, a member of the Advisory Board at the University of San Francisco, and a member of the Administration of Justice Program Advisory Board at De Anza College. She is part of the National Sheriffs' Association, and participates in half a dozen regional and international law enforcement groups (in particular she was President of the California State Sheriffs' Association in 2007–08 and is on the President's Council ) as well as a dozen local groups.


Lada St. Edmund

Lada St. Edmund (also known as Lada Edmund, Jr.) (born 1 April 1947) is an American personal trainer, dancer, singer, actress and stunt performer. St. Edmund became a popular nationally known go-go dancer on the 1965–1966 NBC-TV rock music series "Hullabaloo". She later became the highest paid stuntwoman in Hollywood history.
Personal life.
When St. Edmund was a child, she lived with her grandmother on a farm in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The farmhands watched boxing on television, which sparked St. Edmund's interest in boxing as an adult. She was a tomboy. She moved to Manhattan with her mother, at the age of nine. She attended ballet classes and at the age of 12 performed in her first Broadway musical.
St. Edmund married in the late 1970s and moved to Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. She gave birth to a daughter, named Skye. She is divorced and lives in Wayne, New Jersey.
Career.
A young start on Broadway.
St. Edmund's theater debut was in the first production of "Bye Bye Birdie" on Broadway, playing Penelope Ann at the age of 12. Her stage name was Lada Edmund, Jr. She performed in "West Side Story", also on Broadway, when she was fifteen, and also performed in "Promises, Promises".
Hullabaloo and go-go dancing.
At seventeen, St. Edmund became a go-go dancer on "Hullabaloo". While working on the show, she met Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. During her time at "Hullabaloo", she was on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". She received fan letters, including many from students at Harvard. Donna McKechnie described St. Edmund as having a "Brigitte Bardot look". She was featured on the cover of "TV Guide" in June 1965.
Singing career.
St. Edmund signed a deal with Decca Records in 1966. Her first single was "I Know Something", which was released in 1966. The single, with the b-side "Once Upon a Time", made the Billboard Pop 100. It was described as being similar to Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". She performed on the ABC-TV variety program "The Hollywood Palace" on October 22, 1966.
Move to Hollywood.
After "Hullabaloo" ended, St. Edmund moved to Hollywood. She starred in the films "The Devil's 8" (1969), "Out of It" (1969), "Jump" (1971), "Savage!" (1973) and "Act of Vengeance" (1974). She also appeared on the short lived ABC-TV anthology series "ABC Stage 67". She struggled to get serious roles in the film industry, often being seen only as a dancer.
Stuntwork.
As she struggled to find roles, she met Hal Needham through Dinah Shore. After her meeting with Needham, and with the encouragement of Burt Reynolds, she studied to be a stunt performer. St. Edmund went on to do stuntwork in "Smokey and the Bandit". In 1975, St. Edmund drove a 1972 Mercury to test airbags for Eaton Corporation. She drove the car into a wall going . She was paid $25,000 by Allstate and broke her ankles. She performed a motorcycle jump over cars on a television pilot for Evel Knievel, and suffered a compression fracture. She was scheduled to do stuntwork in "The Cannonball Run". She was unable to perform one day and the woman who was her stand-in ended up being paralyzed during a scene. St. Edmund's stunt work eventually made her the highest paid stuntwoman in Hollywood history.
Physical fitness and sports.
St. Edmund got involved in personal training in the late 1980s. In the early 2000s, St. Edmund started boxing. She boxed for about six months before stopping. She became a personal trainer. In 2010, she started training to become a boxing referee. She met, and then trained under Mike Rosario. As a personal trainer, she has a youth training program called Modern Miracles.


Sarah Bradford Ripley

Sarah Bradford Ripley (July 31, 1793 – July 26, 1867) was an American educator and noted scholar at a time when women were rarely admitted to universities. She acquired most of her knowledge of the classics, philosophy, modern languages, botany, astronomy, and chemistry through independent study. She was reputedly "one of the most learned women of the nineteenth century."
Early life and education.
Sarah Alden Bradford was born in Boston on July 31, 1793, the oldest of nine children of Gamaliel Bradford III and Elizabeth Hickling Bradford. Her mother had tuberculosis and her father was a sea captain who was often away on voyages, leaving Sarah to care for her younger siblings.
The family lived in Boston but often spent time in Duxbury, Massachusetts, where her paternal grandfather lived. There she met Abba B. Allyn, who became a lifelong friend. Allyn's father, Dr. John Allyn, tutored both girls in Latin and Greek. Bradford also attended classes taught by Jacob Abbot Cummings in Boston, and read the books her father brought home from his travels. While in her teens she taught herself to read French and Italian, and studied chemistry, physics, and botany on her own initiative.
According to one biographer, it took Bradford two weeks to work up the courage to ask her father for permission to study Latin. When she finally did, her father laughed and said, "A girl study Latin! Yes, study Latin if you want to. You may study anything you please."
In 1813 the family moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts, where Bradford's father became the warden of the Charlestown State Prison. There she tutored her younger siblings in a makeshift schoolroom above the kitchen. She acquired a college education by proxy when her brothers attended Harvard College and she read their books. She also read German biblical criticism and had many discussions of theology with her aunt and mentor, Mary Moody Emerson.
One of her younger brothers, Gamaliel Bradford (1795-1839), went on to become a physician and a noted abolitionist.
The Ripley School.
Her mother died in 1817, and soon afterwards she received a proposal of marriage from Samuel Ripley (1783-1847), a Harvard-educated Unitarian minister. Although she did not relish the thought of living in the country as a parson's wife, she accepted on the advice of her father. The couple were married on October 13, 1818, and moved into the parsonage in Waltham, Massachusetts, where Samuel Ripley was minister of the First Church. There they ran a small boarding school that accommodated about 14 boys, as well as four of Sarah's younger siblings. Sarah (now Sarah Ripley) was the "sole matron" of the school.
Sarah and Samuel Ripley had nine children, two of whom died in infancy. In addition to raising the children, Sarah Ripley taught at the school with the occasional help of tutors, including the young Ralph Waldo Emerson. The school gained an excellent reputation largely due to Sarah Ripley's scholarship and skill as a teacher. Harvard President Edward Everett said that she could have filled in for any professor at Harvard. Harvard would sometimes send students to her who had been "rusticated" (suspended); according to one of her former students, George Frisbie Hoar, they would come away "better instructed than they would have been if they had stayed in Cambridge."
In her thirties, she struggled to reconcile her faith with her knowledge of science. She often discussed spiritual matters with Frederic Henry Hedge, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Peabody, George Ripley, Convers Francis, and Theodore Parker, as well as her friend and relative Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Later years.
In the spring of 1846, the Ripleys retired to Concord, Massachusetts, where Samuel Ripley had inherited a house from his father, Ezra Ripley. Its prior occupant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, published "Mosses from an Old Manse" that same year, and the house became known as "The Old Manse". Sarah Ripley continued tutoring students occasionally, including her grandchildren, and her husband continued preaching. Family friends in Concord included Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Ellery Channing, and Asa Gray.
Samuel Ripley died of a heart attack in 1847, leaving Sarah Ripley to care for seven children, a grandchild, and a son-in-law. During the Civil War, one of her sons joined the Union army and was killed near Vicksburg in 1863. She died on July 26, 1867, at the home of her daughter, Mary Ripley Simmons. She was buried with her husband at the Emerson family plot in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.
Tributes.
Ripley's contemporaries typically followed their praise for her intellect with some praise for her housekeeping and parenting skills. In 1876, her biography was included in a book published by the directors of the Centennial Exposition, along with those of five others who were considered "the best examples of American womanhood." In it, she is introduced as "one who combined rare and living knowledge of literature and science with the household skill and habits of personal labor needful to New England women of limited means."
Ralph Waldo Emerson called her "one of the best Greek scholars in the country," then hastened to add that "her mind was purely receptive. She had no ambition to propound a theory, or to write her own name on any book, or plant, or opinion. Her delight in books was not tainted by any wish to shine..." Emerson took care to reassure readers that her housework never suffered as a result of her studies:
But this wide and successful study was, during all the hours of middle life, only the work of hours stolen from sleep, or was combined with some household task which occupied the hands and left the eyes free. She was faithful to all the duties of wife and mother in a well-ordered and eminently hospitable household.
George Frisbie Hoar called her "one of the most wonderful scholars of her time, or indeed of any time," and in the same paragraph described her as "simple as a child, an admirable wife and mother, performing perfectly all the commonest duties of the household."
Her friend Frederic Henry Hedge, observing in his eulogy that Ripley had never published a single piece of writing, praised her modesty and called her "a perfect woman."


Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen

Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen (11 April 1890 – 22 October 1983) was a German social scientist and labor activist who was active in the country's Christian trade unions (CTU) and similar organizations. She took part in the German resistance to Nazism before and during World War II.
Biography.
Elfriede Nebgen was born in Hildesheim, Germany, and was initially educated there and in Lausanne, Switzerland. She trained to be a teacher at a school run by the Ursulines in Duderstadt. Her first teaching job was at a school for Polish girls in Poznan. During World War I, she undertook social work in Strasbourg and Metz.
She became interested in trade union work after meeting Adam Stegerwald, then the secretary-general of the League of Christian Unions (LCU). She began a course of study in economics at the Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster, graduating in 1921 with a dissertation on the synthesis of socialism and Catholicism.
That fall, Nebgen moved to Berlin and took up a job with the CTU. She worked on education-related projects and wrote for the "Central Journal of the Christian Trade Unions of Germany" and for the magazine "German Labor". Between 1921 and 1923, she helped lay the foundations for a Christian national workers' movement, among other things founding and directing the Central Welfare Committee of the Christian Workers Movement (later known as Christian Workers Help).
In this period, she developed a close, lifelong partnership with labor activist Jakob Kaiser (1888–1961), who was then the national manager of the CTU of West Germany. Together, they campaigned against threats to trade unions posed by right-wing parties in the 1930s. Even before Adolf Hitler abolished all trade unions when the Nazis came to power in 1933, they distanced themselves from organizations that came to terms with the new regime. During World War II, she and Kaiser went into the resistance and made contact with various resistance groups, especially the circle centered in Cologne and associated with Carl Goerdeler, the former mayor of Leipzig. This put Kaiser in touch with Claus von Stauffenberg, a leader of the 20 July plot in 1944 to assassinate Hitler. Although Kaiser was not involved in the plot, his foreknowledge put him at risk, and Nebgen and some companions saved Kaiser's life by hiding him.
After the war, Nebgen initially remained in the Soviet zone of occupation and worked with Kaiser on building the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Their moderate leftist views often put them at cross-purposes with Soviet leaders, and in the late 1940s both of them left the Soviet zone. Subsequently, she supported Kaiser in his political career in West Germany and was active in the Christian Democratic Employees' Association, an arm of the CDU.
Nebgen married Kaiser in 1953, after the death of his first wife; thereafter, she hyphenated her last name with his. In 1967 she published a biography of her husband, "Jakob Kaiser: Der Widerstandskämpfer" (Jakob Kaiser: Resistance Fighter). She survived him by two decades, dying in 1983 in Berlin.


Rachel Bendayan

Rachel Bendayan (born May 10, 1980) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election on February 25, 2019. She represents the electoral district of Outremont as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. In December 2019, Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau asked her to serve as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, Mary Ng.
She previously ran as the Liberal candidate for Outremont in the 2015 Canadian federal election, coming in second to New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair and increasing the Liberal Party's vote share by a significant margin.
Following the 2015 federal election, Bendayan worked served as Chief of Staff to Minister of Small Business and Tourism, Bardish Chagger.


Jane Trahey

Jane Trahey (November19, 1923April 22, 2000) was an American businesswoman and writer. She is best known as one of the pioneers of advertising during the 1960s. She was one of the first women to own and manage an advertising agency. After graduating from Mundelein College in 1943, she worked for Neiman-Marcus in Dallas in 1947 as a copywriter. In 1956, Trahey moved to New York where she founded the 425 Advertising Associates for Julius Kayser Inc. as their in-house agency. Two years later she opened her own agency, Jane Trahey Associates, but in 1978 she left to become a consultant.
Among other awards, she received the Advertising Woman of the Year award in 1969 from the American Advertising Federation for her advertising career. She acted as the chief for advertising campaigns on behalf of Bill Blass, Elizabeth Arden, and Blackglama mink, among others.
Biography.
Early life and education.
Trahey was born in Chicago on November19, 1923 and studied at Catholic schools. After attending Chicago's Mundelein College and graduating in 1943, she continued her education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for two years.
Trahey earned the degree of Master of Fine Arts in 1975 from Columbia University in New York.
Career.
Before working for the Chicago Daily News in the survey research department, Trahey worked in the Chicago Tribune's news morgue. Her first advertising job was for the Chicago department store, Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. as copywriter after a period in the retail shop as receptionist. Her work at the firm caught the attention of retail store Neiman-Marcus where she later worked as copywriter in 1947 in Dallas, Texas.
Trahey worked at Neiman-Marcus in Texas for nine years where she became the director of advertising and sales. Her work at Neiman-Marcus earned Trahey a reputation for her "innovative fashion copywriting". She even tested different colors with scented inks in retail ads.
For the lingerie and hosiery company, Julius Kayser Inc., she created an in-house agency, Advertising Associates, after she moved to New York in 1956. Later, in 1958, Trahey established Jane Trahey Associates, her own agency specializing in cosmetics and fashion advertising. With the addition of partner Franchellie Cadwell in 1962, the agency was renamed Trahey/Cadwell Associates. In June 1964 the partnership ended and the agency worked under the new name "Trahey Associates/Advertising" until 1965 when the name changed again to "Trahey Advertising". Between 1965 and 1966 the agency worked for well known companies including Charles of the Ritz, Rob Roy Shirts for Boys, Pauline Trigere, Elizabeth Arden, and Union Carbide Corporation's textile department.
Art director Henry Wolf became a partner in 1967 and the name of the agency changed again to "Trahey/Wolf Advertising". The partnership lasted until 1972 when Wolf left. In 1976, the shop changed its name again to "Trahey/Rogers Advertising" reflecting the addition of partner Peter Rogers. This partnership lasted until 1978 when Trahey left the agency, sold the shop to Rogers, and became a consultant.
During her career, her agency created advertising campaigns for clients including Bill Blass, Elizabeth Arden, and Olivetti. Well-known slogans her agency created include "Foot-loose and Famolare" for Famolare footwear, "It's not fake anything, it's real Dynel" for Union Carbide's synthetic hair, and "Danskins are not just for dancing" for Danskin shoes. For her campaign for the Great Lakes Mink Association, her employee Norman Sunshine created the slogan "What Become a Legend Most?" and employee Peter Rogers persuaded major stars like Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, and Judy Garland to pose in a Blackglama mink coat under the slogan, "What becomes a legend most?" Their payment was the coat and the portrait, shot by Richard Avedon.
Trahey attempted to get credit for creating many of the slogans that her employees came up with, as detailed in Norman Sunshine's 2011 book "Double Life." He also referred to her as being a lesbian who dated his gay partner's ex-wife, which is how Sunshine got his position with Trahey's agency. "Double Life" also says Trahey broke up with the partner's ex-wife to run off with a nun from Trahey's past in Illinois.
Apart from advertising, she also served in feminist movements and later became a writer and lecturer. Among her writings was an autobiography, "Jane Trahey on Women & Power: Who's Got It. How to Get It". She wrote a play, "Ring Round the Bathtub", which was produced on Broadway in 1972 starring Elizabeth Ashley. Her novel "Life With Mother Superior" was the basis for the film "The Trouble with Angels", starring Hayley Mills and Rosalind Russell. She also wrote "Thursdays Till Nine" and "Pecked to Death by Goslings".
Death and recognition.
After working for more than 40 years, Trahey died of cancer at her home in Kent, Connecticut on April22, 2000, at the age of 76.
She received more than 200 awards over the course of her career. Among others, she was honored with the Advertising Woman of the Year award in 1969 by the American Advertising Federation. In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Trahey's name and picture.
Rocky Piliero, production manager of Trahey's agency during 1969, said on her death that, "Ms. Trahey didn't like accounts. She liked projects. She liked to do something new. She'd be gung-ho for six months, then get bored."


Holly Mathieson

Holly Mathieson (born 28 May 1981, Dunedin) is a New Zealand conductor and music academic.
Education and early life.
Mathieson completed her BMus (hons) in composition and analysis from the University of Otago in 2001. She earned an MMus in orchestral conducting from the University of Melbourne Conservatorium. She received a PhD in Music in the subject of Iconography "Embodying Music: The Visuality of Three Iconic Conductors in London, 1840-1940" in 2010. In 2004, Mathieson conducted the world premiere in 2004 of Anthony Ritchie's The God Boy.
Mathieson is a graduate of the St Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic masterclass (Alexander Polishchuk and Mark Stringer), London Conducting Workshop (Neil Thomson and John Farrer), Dartington International Summer School (John Carewe and Pierre-André Valade), and the Pärnu Music Festival Järvi Academy (Leonid Grin, Neeme Järvi and Paavo Järvi).
Career.
In the UK, Mathieson became an orchestral librarian with the Philharmonia Orchestra in 2010, while she continued to study conducting privately. With the Philharmonia, she was a conducting assistant to Christoph Von Dohnányi and Esa-Pekka Salonen. She has been an assistant conductor to Marin Alsop in projects with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in Paris and Berlin, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms. In 2013, Mathieson became founding artistic director of the Horizont Musik-Kollektiv (Berlin). For 2014-2015, she was a Leverhulme Fellow in conducting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS), mentored by Garry Walker, and assistant to Donald Runnicles at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Mathieson has served as associate conductor of Opera Holland Park.
In 2015, Mathieson became Resident Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland Junior Orchestra. Between 2015 and 2017, Mathieson was Vocal Director and Lecturer in Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London. From 2016 to 2018, Mathieson was assistant conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. In 2018, Mathieson was named co-artistic director of the Nevis Ensemble, alongside Jon Hargreaves, her husband. With the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Isata Kanneh-Mason, Mathieson has recorded music of Clara Schumann commercially for Decca Classics.
In 2018, Mathieson first guest-conducted Symphony Nova Scotia, as one of two finalist candidates for the post of music director with the orchestra. She returned in November 2019 for a further guest-conducting engagement. In December 2019, Symphony Nova Scotia announced the appointment of Mathieson as its next music director, effective January 2020, with an initial contract of 3 years. This appointment marks her first orchestral music directorship. Mathieson is the first female conductor to be named music director of Symphony Nova Scotia.
Mathieson and Hargreaves reside in Glasgow.
In 2021 she is in New Zealand to conduct the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for the first time in concerts with the metal band Alien Weaponry.


Shazia Khan

Shazia Khan is an Indian chef. She participated in MasterChef India (season 2), a cookery show that is hosted by STAR PLUS in India. She became the first Runner-Up of MasterChef India Season 2.
She is a member of the board of management, at Delhi Public School Bangalore North and Mysore. They run many educational institutes in Bangalore and Shazia involves herself in the education business.
She is daughter-in-law of the former Union Minister K Rahman Khan.
She has conducted cookery shows around the world, a television host, cookbook author “what’s on the Menu, founder of The Cooking Studio,The Studio Cafe, Goa and Chennai.


Tomomi Nishimoto

Tomomi Nishimoto (西本智実) is a Japanese conductor.
Biography.
Tomomi Nishimoto was born in Osaka, Japan on 22 April 1970. Her experience learning to play the piano from her mother at the age of three as well as her mother's musical influence are what fuelled her interest to become a conductor in the future. After receiving her Bachelor of Music in Composition from Osaka College of Music in 1994, she was admitted to the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory.
Although she had the experience of conducting opera during her years in Osaka College of Music as a vice conductor, her formal conducting career started in 1998 with the . Since then she has conducted many famous Japanese orchestras and has received various awards, such as: the (1999), St. Stanislav Medal (1999) and (2000).
Her professional career in Russia started in 1999, when she conducted the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic. In 2002, she was appointed as the chief conductor of the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra "Millennium". In addition, she has served as the principal guest conductor of the St. Petersburg Mussorgsky State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (2004–2006) and was also appointed as the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director for Russian Symphony Orchestra of the Tchaikovsky Foundation (2004–2007). In 2005, she conducted the first public performance of a completion of Tchaikovsky’s unfinished Symphony "Life" that the Tchaikovsky Fund had commissioned.
Recent Activities.
Through her work in 2007, conducting the Bruckner Orchestra Linz at Brucknerhaus in Austria, Nishimoto has also become active in Europe. Subsequently, she has conducted many European orchestras such as Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Romanian State Philharmonic Orchestra (George Enescu), Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. In addition to her activities with the orchestras, Nishimoto has also collaborated with Prague National Opera and the Hungarian State Opera as an opera conductor.
Nishimoto was the Principal Guest Conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia from 2010 to 2011.


Yifat Bitton

Yifat Bitton () is an Israeli Law professor, and activist. She is the president of the Achva academic college of education & science. She is the founder of Tmura—The Israeli Anti-discrimination Center, which advocates for the rights of women who have suffered abuse. She was shortlisted for Israel's Supreme Court twice. In February 2019, Bitton entered politics, and joined Ehud Barak in the formation of a new political party .
Career.
From 1996–1997 Bitton clerked for Israeli Supreme Court Justice Mishael Cheshin.
In 2006, Bitton founded Tmura—The Israeli Anti-discrimination Center, which advocates for women who have experienced sexual violence and violation of their economic rights. She is a civil rights activist, focusing on equality for the Mizrahi population.
Bitton was on the list of candidates for Israel's Supreme Court in 2017 and 2018, the youngest woman to ever appear on the list. She currently serves as the President of Achva academic college of education & science and in the past served as an associate professor at Israel's College of Management Academic Studies Law School. Prof. Bitton taught for 5 years as an Affiliated Transnational Visiting Professor at Peking University School of Transnational Law. She was also a visiting professor at New York University.
Politics.
In February 2019, Bitton joined the Gesher party led by Orly Levy, receiving the third spot on the list. In the April 2019 Israeli legislative election, Gesher did not make it into the Knesset. Bitton joined Ehud Barak at a press conference in June 2019 announcing the formation of a new political party to challenge Benjamin Netanyahu in the September elections. The new party, Israel Democratic Party, joined other parties to create the Democratic Union list, with Bitton being placed seventh on the joint list.
Education.
Bitton spent the 2004–2005 academic year at Harvard Law. Bitton holds a PhD as well as an LLB and LLM from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Master of Laws degree from Yale Law School.
Personal life.
Bitton was born in Kiryat Malachi and lives in Herzliya. She is married to Eyal Sternberg, a lawyer, and they have two children.
Awards.
Prof. Bitton has won myriad social and legal awards and prizes, among them: The Aliance Prize for Education and Social Change; The Minister of Social Equality and President's Award for Organizations Fighting Violence against Women (Tmura); "Honoris Causa" Award of the Israeli Bar Association; The Safra Award for Excellence and Contribution to Israeli Society; The Hadassah Foundation Bernice Tennenbaum Prize for innovative feminist; The Human Rights Activist Award of The London Human Rights Annual Dinner and Dafna Izraeli Fund’s Prize for Israeli Feminist Leadership.
Prof. Bitton was also Nominated Forbes' 50 Most Influential Women in Israel..


Claire Gibault

Claire Gibault (born 31 October 1945 in Le Mans) is a French conductor and politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the south-east of France. She is a member of the Union for French Democracy, which is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
She is also a member of the delegation to the EU–Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Japan.
Career.
Political career.
Since 2004 Claire Gibault has been an MEP, a member of the Committee on Culture and Education and of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. She was rapporteur for a draft report on the social status of artists in Europe, approved by a large majority in June 2007.
Claire Gibault tries to defend modern feminism in order to give women the opportunity to have the same chances of success as men. This is what she is committed to within the European Parliament's Women's Rights Committee, on matters concerning women and poverty, the reconciliation of working life and family life or women migrants.
Artistic career.
Born in Le Mans, that is where Claire Gibault began her studies. She won first prize for violin and chamber music at the Le Mans Conservatory before going to the Paris Higher National Conservatory of Music where she received first prizes for Orchestra Conducting, Harmony, Fugue and Counterpoint.
From 1976 to 1983 she was Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Chambéry, and from 1983 to 1989 assistant to John Eliot Gardiner, then Music Director of the Orchestra of the Opéra National de Lyon.
In 1995, she became the first woman to conduct the La Scala orchestra on the occasion of the creation of the opera "La Station Thermale" by Fabio Vacchi and in 1997 she conducted the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with the opera "Jacob Lenz" by Wolfgang Rihm.
She was in charge of the Lyrical and Choral Workshop of the Opéra de Lyon between 1991 and 1998. There she was responsible for the musical direction of numerous productions, notably "Pelléas et Mélisande", "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", "La Cenerentola", "Die Entführung aus dem Serail", "La Finta Giardiniera", "Roméo et Juliette" by Berlioz, "L'Orfeo" by Monteverdi, "Les Brigands" by Offenbach, "L'Heure espagnole" and "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges" by Ravel, Haydn's "Il Mondo della luna", Gluck's "Iphigénie en Tauride", "The Rape of Lucretia" by Britten and "Le Chapeau de paille d'Italie" by Nina Rota, whilst "La Station Thermale" (recorded by Ricordi) and "Les Oiseaux de Passage" by Fabio Vacchi and "Dédale" by Hugues Dufourt (recorded on CD by MFA/Radio France) are among her world creations.
Between January 2000 and 2002, she was Music Director of Musica per Roma, where she created the Laboratorio Voci in Musica. Presented there with her conducting were Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" and "Die Entführung aus dem Serail", Henze's "Pollicino", Humperdinck's "Hänsel und Gretel" and Bernstein's "West Side Story".
She has also conducted "Pelléas et Mélisande" (Covent Garden, London), "Le Comte Ory" (Glyndebourne Festival), "Cosi fan tutte" (Opera North), Chabrier's "L'étoile" (Edinburgh Festival), "Zaïde" and "Der Schauspieldirektor" (Bastille), "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges" (Châtelet), Boîeldieu's "La Dame Blanche" (Opéra-Comique, Paris), "Mitridate", "La Donna del lago", "Die Zauberflöte", "Le Nozze di Figaro" and "Bastien und Bastienne" (Nice), "La Clemenza di Tito" (Orléans), "La Traviata" (Nancy), "Idomeneo" and "Cosi fan tutte" (Liège), "Maria Stuarda" (Torino), "La Cenerentola" (Rome) and "Les Oiseaux de passage" (Bologna).
She was Claudio Abbado's assistant for "Pelléas et Mélisande" at the Royal Opera House, La Scala and the Vienna Opera House.
In November 2002, she made her debut at the Washington Opera, conducting Mozart's "Idomeneo" with Plácido Domingo in the title role.
In February 2003, she conducted a world creation of Fabio Vacchi at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and in March 2004 she conducted the Copenhagen Philharmonic for the first time.
In 2005, she adapted into French and conducted Henze's "Pollicino" at the Châtelet theatre.
During the same season, she conducted concerts with the Orchestra Mozart Bologna and the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, and recorded Fabio Vacchi's music for the film Gabrielle by Patrice Chéreau.
In 2006, she conducted the New Year concert with the orchestra of the Antwerp Opera, in February the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, in March the Orchestra Mozart Bologna, in April the Savoie Orchestra, and in May the opera Peter Pan by Patrick Burgan at the Châtelet theatre.
Claire Gibault has conducted concerts all over France and in Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada and the United States. She has been invited by the Halle Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the RAI Sinfonica Nazionale Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Belgium and the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra. She has recorded works by Beethoven and Schubert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also worked in Denmark with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra and in Sweden with the Våsterås Sinfonietta.
Today, she is assistant orchestra conductor with Claudio Abbado for the new Orchestra Mozart Bologna.
Decorations.
Claire Gibault has received the insignia of Officier of the Palmes académiques and is Chevalier of the Ordre national du mérite and of the Légion d'honneur. On 2 February 2005, she was given an honorary doctorate by the Catholic University of Louvain, along with Wim Wenders and Jorge Semprun.


Clara E. Westropp

Clara E. Westropp (July 7, 1886 - June 25, 1965) was an American businesswoman and Catholic activist.
Westropp was a native of Cleveland, the daughter of Thomas P. and Clara Stoeckel Westropp. She graduated from West High School and Dyke School of Commerce, and also attended the Savings & Loan Institute in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. With her sister, Lillian M. Westropp, in 1922 she founded a savings and loan association directed and run by women; called the Women's Federal Savings Bank, it was the first such institution in the United States. It was first organized under a state charter, but reorganized under a federal charter in 1935, changing its name in that year to the Women's Federal Savings & Loan Association of Cleveland. The initial stock capitalziation as $85,000, over half of which was sold by Clara. On the strength of her previous success, Westropp was named president of the Cuyahoga Savings & Loan League in 1952, becoming the first woman to occupy that position.
Westropp's expertise in financial matters carried over into her religious life when she founded the Francis Xavier Mission Circles in Cleveland in 1946. Each circle was composed of twelve women who through "prayer, sacrifice and funds" developed personal relationships with missionaries from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland. By 1960 over 250 of these circles existed in the city. The plan was not unique to Cleveland; even so, Westropp influenced the further development of the method in Los Angeles, Detroit, and Chicago. Furthermore, Westropp was friends with Fulton J. Sheen, and underwrote portions of his television programs in the 1950s. By 1961 she had been named diocesan chair of missions; that decade she assisted in inaugurating the Cleveland Latin America Association, which was sponsoring Jean Donovan and Dorothy Kazel in El Salvador at the time of their murder. She was also a member of the National Catholic Welfare Council. For the National Council of Catholic Women she was a diocesan mission chair. Westropp never married; she died in the city of her birth. For many years she and Lillian had shared a home on Southland Avenue.
Westropp's activities brought her numerous honors both during her lifetime and posthumously. She received the papal medal "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice" in 1954. In 1965 she was posthumously named Catholic Woman of the Year when she received the Mission Secretarial award. Also posthumously, she became the namesake of Clara E. Westropp Junior High School. Her death was entered into the Congressional Record. Some of her papers, along with those of her sister, are currently housed at Harvard University.


Elisabeth Pickering

Elisabeth Pickering (c.1510–1562) was an English printer, the first woman in England to print books under her maiden name.
Biography.
Elisabeth Pickering is reputed by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to being the first English woman to print books under her maiden name; James Raven asserts that "as early as 1527-8 a widow is recorded as printing in York", and terms Pickering as 'the best-known early press woman'.
Elisabeth Pickering was the wife and, on his death in October 1540, widow, of Robert Redman, a printer of law books in London from 1525 until his death. Thirteen editions of Redman's books were printed, eleven under Pickering's name, within nine-months of his death, including an edition of the Magna Carta. Thereafter she sold the printing business to William Middleton.
Elisabeth Pickering was married four times; to a Mr. Jackson, with issue Lucy and Elizabeth, prior to her marriage in 1537 to Redman, with issue Alice and Matilda. After Redman's death she married William Cholmeley, a lawyer who may, according to the ODNB have been involved in a 1542 attempt by the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers to be incorporated in London. After William's death she married his relation Ranulph Cholmeley, who from 1553 to 1663 was Recorder of London and thereafter Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. This Cholmeley was responsible for the successful incorporation of the Stationers, and the ODNB suggests that Elisabeth's interest in the matter was related to both Cholmeley's actions.
Elisabeth Pickering died in October 1562. She is buried in St. Dunstan-in-the-West Churchyard in London, England.


Vanessa Scammell

Vanessa Scammell is an Australian pianist and conductor in the field of ballet, musical theatre, concert, and opera.
Career.
After growing up in Gippsland, Victoria, Scammell graduated in 1992 from the Melbourne Conservatorium with Bachelor of Music degree (Honours in Piano Performance) and a Bachelor of Music Education. She then continued her studies at the Sydney Conservatorium gaining a Graduate Diploma of Music – Opera Répétiteur, and worked as rehearsal pianist for the Victoria State Opera, Opera Australia, and other companies.
Scammell gained a master's degree in conducting studying under Vladimir Vais and Imre Palló. She was the musical director for the Australian 2007 tour of "The Phantom of the Opera" with Anthony Warlow. She has been the recipient of the Robert and Elizabeth Albert Conducting Fellowship for the Australian Ballet and in 2008 she received the Brian Stacey Conducting Award. Scammell was the music director the ABC's TV opera "The Divorce", of the Helpmann Awards for 12 years, for the production of "From Broadway to La Scala" which toured Australia and New Zealand in 2017 and 2019 with David Hobson, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Greta Bradman, Emma Matthews, Caroline O'Connor and others; and for the show "Peter & Jack" with Greta Bradman, Teddy Tahu Rhodes and The Idea of North at the 2015 Adelaide Festival, presented by Barry Humphries. In 2018 she was appointed guest conductor of the Hubei Symphony Orchestra with whom she conducted the 1958 opera "Lake Honghu" at the Sydney Opera House and in the Melbourne Recital Centre. Scammell has regularly conducted the Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland, Adelaide, West Australian, and Christchurch symphony orchestras.
Scammell conducted "La traviata" in 2011 for Opera Australia's Oz Opera touring production. For Opera Australia, Opera Queensland and the West Australian Opera, Scammell conducted Graeme Murphy's production of "The Merry Widow" in 2017/2018.
Personal life.
Scammell is the partner of actor Craig McLachlan.


Jacqui Malouf

Jacqui Malouf (born December 12, 1968 in Etobicoke, Ontario) is a Canadian television host, cook, and author.
Raised in Canada, she attended the University of Western Ontario, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, before beginning her career as a stand-up comic. Her first hosting job was on SportsFigures. Malouf then joined the Food Network as Bobby Flay's co-host on "Hot Off the Grill with Bobby Flay". She remained in that role until her contract with the Food Network expired.
In December 2003 she released "Booty Food: A Date by Date, Nibble by Nibble, Course by Course Guide to Cultivating Love and Passion through Food," published by Bloomsbury.
Malouf has gone on host Bravo's "Things I Hate About You" and 's "Full Frontal Fashion". She is a contributor to "Best Week Ever" on VH1 and continues to perform stand-up comedy in New York City.
She has two daughters, Kenna and Georgia, and is married to actor James McCauley.


Marcia Milgrom Dodge

Marcia Milgrom Dodge is an American director, choreographer and writer for the stage. After working in regional theatre, off-Broadway and elsewhere for thirty years, Dodge directed and choreographed her first Broadway production, a revival of "Ragtime" in 2009. The production received 7 Tony Award nominations including one for Dodge for Best Director of a Musical. Her Kennedy Center production of "Ragtime" received four 2010 Helen Hayes Awards including one for her for Best Director, Resident Musical.
Early years.
Dodge was born in Detroit, Michigan, grew up in Southfield, Michigan and attended Vandenberg and Adlai Stevenson Elementary Schools and Birney Junior High graduating from Southfield-Lathrup High School in 1973. As a child, she took dance lessons at the Julie Adler School of Dance in Oak Park, Michigan. She is the daughter of Myron and Jacqueline Milgrom, and her sisters are Carole Lasser, Paula Milgrom and Marianne Milgrom Bloomberg. Dodge received her degree in Speech Communication and Theatre at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, graduating in 1977. Upon graduation, Dodge moved to New York City pursuing a career as a choreographer.
Director/choreographer.
Dodge is the director/choreographer of the 2009 Kennedy Center and Broadway revival of the musical "Ragtime". "The Guardian" noted Dodge's "impassioned staging" of "Ragtime". Peter Marks in an article summing up the fate of the "Ragtime" revival, noted: "Marcia Milgrom Dodge, the director-choreographer...came up with a sleekly beautiful concept for a show with a complex, interwoven narrative about blacks, Jews and white Anglo-Saxons in New York at the turn of the 20th century: She placed the entire enterprise on a single trellised set and put the myriad characters, fictional and historical, more resolutely front and center -- "Ragtime" not as a history lesson, but as a story about families." She is the "first woman to direct a major musical produced by the Kennedy Center." The Kennedy Center production of "Ragtime" was nominated for six 2010 Helen Hayes Awards and won four: Outstanding Resident Musical (Winner); Outstanding Director, Resident Musical: Marcia Milgrom Dodge (Winner); Outstanding Musical Direction, Resident Production: James Moore; Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical: Quentin Earl Darrington; Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical: Christiane Noll (Winner); Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production: Santo Loquasto & Jimm Halliday (Winners). The Broadway transfer of the production was honored with 7 Tony nominations including one for Dodge for Best Direction.
In New York, Dodge was the Associate Choreographer for the Broadway musical "High Society" (1998). Off Broadway she was the choreographer for "Life is Not A Doris Day Movie" (1982), "Romance Language" (1984), "Romance in Hard Times" (Public Theater 1989), "Closer Than Ever" (1989), "The Waves" (1990), "The Loman Family Picnic" (Manhattan Theatre Club 1993), director/choreographer for "Radio Gals" (John Houseman Theatre, 1996), "Seussical" for Theatreworks USA (Lucille Lortel Theatre) (2007) (receiving a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography) and consultant for "Cookin" (Minetta Lane Theatre, 2004).
In regional theatre: In 2012, Dodge directed & choreographed "Hello, Dolly!" at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre starring Vicki Lewis and Gary Beach. She directed Mark Brown's "Around The World In 80 Days" for Pittsburgh Public Theater, then a new production of "The Music Man" for Glimmerglass Festival.
In 2011, Dodge traveled to Fredericia, Denmark to direct and choreograph "The Three Musketeers" at the Frederica Teater by George Stiles, Peter Raby, Paul Leigh and Francis Matthews, "Cabaret" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" at Reprise Theatre Company in Los Angeles, the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, NY, productions of "Simeon's Gift," "The Who's Tommy", "Once On This Island", and "Hair" and director of "Fit To Print". At the Riverside Theatre, Vero Beach, Florida she was the director/choreographer for, "Dames at Sea", "Anything Goes, Evita," and the director of "Blithe Spirit". She has directed and/or choreographed many productions at the Music Circus, Sacramento, California, including The "Unsinkable Molly Brown", with Susan Egan, "South Pacific" with Kerry O'Malley (2006) and "Guys and Dolls" (2009) with Gary Beach.
World premieres include "Knight Life: The Girl Who would Be King" by Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser & Jeff Barry (Riverside Theatre); Rupert Holmes' "Thumbs" starring Kathie Lee Gifford and Diana Canova (Helen Hayes Theatre Company); "Cookin"' (New Victory, Minetta Lane, South Korea and International Tour); "One Foot On The Floor" by Jeffrey Hatcher (also conceived, Denver Center Theatre Co.); "Off-Key" by Bill C. Davis and Richard Adler (George Street Playhouse); "Elmer Gantry" by John Bishop, Mel Marvin & Robert Satuloff (LaJolla Playhouse) and "Casino Paradise" by William Bolcom & Arnold Weinstein (American Music Theatre Festival).
Dodge directed several productions of "Ain't Misbehavin"', first at Virginia Stage in 1991, followed by River Arts Rep, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Huntington Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, and the Philadelphia Drama Guild, receiving 2 Barrymore Award Nominations for Outstanding Choreography & Best Musical.
For The Cape Playhouse she directed "Crimes Of The Heart" starring Sandy Duncan, "Accomplice" with Stephanie Zimbalist & Richard Kind, "Angel Street" starring David McCallum, Jean LeClerc and Mia Dillon, "Deathtrap" and the upcoming production of "Murder on the Orient Express."
As resident director of the Phoenix Theatre Company at SUNY Purchase Dodge directed and choreographed Ken Ludwig's "Sullivan & Gilbert" starring George Grizzard and "High Spirits" and she directed "The Crucifer Of Blood" and "There's One In Every Marriage."
At the Arena Stage, Washington, D.C., she choreographed "On the Town" (1989), "Closer Than Ever", "Merrily We Roll Along" (1990), and "Of Thee I Sing" (1992) (Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Choreography).
Dodge choreographed "Sullivan and Gilbert" at the Kennedy Center in 1983 and directed "Tell Me on a Sunday" (2002) with Alice Ripley at the Kennedy Center.
For television, she choreographed "Sesame Street" (Emmy Award-winning episode "The Tango Festival") and "Remember Wenn" for AMC. Video: "Elmo's World - Wild Wild West" featuring Bill Irwin, Michael Jeter & Kristin Chenoweth (Sony Wonder).
Writer.
She was the dramaturge for a new musical "Quanah" by Larry Gatlin and Anthony Dodge, which received a staged reading at Pace University in January 2010. The musical "Hats: The Musical", for which she wrote the book with Anthony Dodge, was presented by the Willows Theatre Company, Martinez, California, from November 23, 2009 through January 10, 2010. "Hats" also ran in 2007 in several venues, including Las Vegas, Denver, New Orleans and Chicago starring Melissa Manchester. Anthony Dodge wrote "Free Burt Lancaster" and "Venus Flytrap" and Marcia also directed readings of both plays at the Bay Street Theatre and she directed a reading of "Venus Flytrap" at the LGBT Center in NYC for Orange Hanky Productions in June 2008. The Active Theater Company will produce the play in November 2010 in NYC. Marcia and husband Anthony Dodge wrote their first play, the Edgar Award-nominated "Sherlock Holmes & The West End Horror", produced at the Bay Street Theatre in 2002, and later produced by the Asolo Theatre, Sarasota, Florida and the Pioneer Theatre Company, Utah, (2005.) Marcia directed all three productions. The play was published in 2006 by New York play publisher Playscripts, Inc.
Educator.
Devoted to the training of young performers, Dodge is a frequent guest director at universities: For Marymount Manhattan College she directed & choreographed "Drood." At CAP21/NYU--"Divorce Me Darling", David Krane's "Times Square", "Drood" and "Merrily We Roll Along"; also at SUNY-Buffalo. At Fordham College--"Of Thee I Sing" and "Guys & Dolls"; and "Pacific Overtures" at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has been on the faculty of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy since 1996, and was on the faculty of Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21) at NYU Tisch School of the Arts from 1996-2002.
Personal life.
Marcia Milgrom married Anthony Dodge (also from Detroit) in 1980, and they have one daughter, Natasha, born in 1997. The family resides in New York City.
References.
Photo by SneakPeekPhotography.com


Patti Webster

Patti Webster (June 18, 1964 – September 13, 2013) was an American entertainment publicist, author, and minister. As the CEO of W&W Public Relations, a company she founded in 1991, Webster represented notable recording artists, athletes, and actors, including Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys, Usher, Halle Berry, Chris Paul and Holly Robinson Peete.
Early life and education.
Born in Somerville, New Jersey, Webster majored in engineering and operations research at Virginia Tech. After a series of summer internships, Webster decided not to pursue a career in engineering. Moving to Maryland, she took a job in 1985 as a marketing and publicity assistant at BET, then a fledgling network. In 1988, Webster moved to New York.
Career.
Public relations.
In New York, Webster worked at several entertainment-related companies, eventually working as an assistant at Jive Records where she "fell in love with publicity." Subsequently, she was hired by Rogers & Cowan; during her three-year tenure at the company, she worked with Quincy Jones’ Qwest Records, Stevie Wonder, Julio Iglesias, Gloria Estefan, Diana Ross and Celine Dion. In 1991, Webster founded W&W, a public relations agency focused on representing African-Americans, signing her first client, Stephanie Mills, shortly thereafter. By 2013, Webster had built W&W into a highly respected and influential public relations agency, representing celebrities in a wide variety of fields, including Patti LaBelle, BeBe and CeCe Winans, Ludacris, Kelly Rowland, Dwight Howard, and Steve Harvey, as well as organizations including Creflo Dollar Ministries and BMI.
In 2008, "Ebony" honored Webster with an Outstanding Women In Communications award.
Author, minister, and community service.
Despite her success as a publicist, Webster said that her real job was to spread the word of Jesus Christ. Raised in a family of clergy — her father, mother, great-grandmother, grandmother, and grandfather were pastors — Webster authored the book "It Happened in Church: Stories of Humor from the Pulpit to The Pews" in 2008. A collection of humorous stories from friends, pastors and celebrities, Webster said "I think that if God created laughter, it isn't to be excluded from church. I think laughter is to be everywhere." Webster was ordained as a minister in 2011 and served as a deaconess at Shiloh Pentecostal Church in Somerville, New Jersey, where she grew up.
She served as a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), on the boards of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund and the TReach (Therapies Reaching & Educating Autistic Children) Foundation, and on the Make-A-Wish Foundation's Marketing Mavericks team.
Webster died of cancer at a hospital in Somerville on September 13, 2013.


Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate

Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate (18 April 1622 – 11 February 1709) was a painter and abbess. She was a daughter of Frederick V of the Palatinate and King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth Stuart.
Early life.
Born in April 1622, Louise Hollandine was born in Holland, as her parents were living in The Hague. She was their sixth child and second daughter. Her parents had lost their Electoral lands and the crown of Bohemia, resulting in exile. She was given the name Hollandine to show appreciation to Frederick's uncles, the Princes of Orange, for protecting the family in exile.
She studied primarily in Leiden at the 'Prinsenhof', and reportedly began drawing lessons at age six, and became devoted to portraiture. She was taught in the Calvinist tradition according to the Heidelberg Catechism.
Conversion.
For unknown reasons and to the dismay of her Protestant family, in December 1657 she fled to France with the assistance of her aunt by marriage Henrietta Maria of France and converted to the Roman Catholic faith. On 25 March 1659 she became a novice and on 19 September 1660 a nun in the Cistercian Maubuisson Abbey. With the support of King Louis XIV, she became Abbess of Maubuisson in August 1664. Her mother Elizabeth Stuart attempted to have Louise arrested and returned, and her conversion created lifelong animosity. Louise Hollandine was the only child to be left out of Elizabeth Stuart's will. Her brother Edward supported her conversion, as he had converted to Catholicism and lived in France as well.
Painting.
Louise Hollandine was a talented portrait painter and graphic artist, a talent that she shared with her brother, Prince Rupert. She was student of Gerard van Honthorst and painted so ably in his style that some of her works were attributed to him.
As Abbess, she continued painting and used her abbey's wealth and her family's lineage to make charitable donations to English Benedictine nuns, including a Madonna and Child painting she created in 1691, which was hung in the Lady Chapel.
As a painter, the princess is considered an "amateur". The portraits she painted are often in the Baroque style of Honthorst, but there are exceptions, which were likely not commissioned. Her works were generally kept within her family, and some can now be found in German museums.


Marie-France Banc

Marie-France Banc (1876 – 1965) was a Catholic Mother Superior in France, recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, for protecting two Jewish children for the last two years of World War II.
Biography.
Born on 30 May 1876 in Plats, Ardèche, Banc entered religious life as a novitiate nun at 17 and received the name “Sister Marie des Anges” (Sister Mary of the Angels). In time, she taught in Saint-Victor, Arras (Pas-de-Calais), Saint-Félicien (Ardèche) and Arlebosc.
In 1942, Marie Banc was the Mother Superior of the Saint-Joseph Convent in Saint-Félicien, where she was responsible for two boarding schools, one for boys and one for girls. In December of that year, she was asked to conceal two Jewish children: Henri Amzel, age 10, and his sister, Denise, age 6, at the schools.
The Amzel family had immigrated to Paris from Eastern Europe but left that city when the war reached Paris, traveling to Marseilles where the parents rented an apartment with their two children. Their building's owner, understanding the danger facing the family in that city, suggested that instead of staying there, the children be housed in the Catholic boarding schools in Saint-Félicien, run by Banc. The parents moved from Marseilles to the schools' nearby village and Banc welcomed the children to the school and enrolled them as Catholics. With their close proximity, the parents and children could see one another on Sundays. Because the family was of only modest means, Banc covered the enrollment and boarding expenses for both students for both years at no cost to the family.
Even though the German Gestapo searched the village regularly, and deported any Jews found there, the two children remained undetected because only Marie Banc and the directors of the two boarding schools knew that two Jewish children were living among the other Christian students. The scheme worked. Henri and Denise both survived undetected at the school and at war's end they were permanently reunited with their parents.
Marie Banc died at 88 years of age on 27 March 1965 in Saint-Félicien, France.
Recognition.
On March 4, 2001, Yad Vashem recognized Marie Banc as Righteous Among the Nations, which is recognition given to "non-Jews who took great risks to save Jews during the Holocaust."
A commemorative plaque was installed at the house where Banc was born and unveiled by the mayor of the village of Plats during an official ceremony held on Saturday, May 30, 2009.


Women Painting Women

Women Painting Women (WPW) is an artists group consisting entirely of contemporary women artists. The group's name came from the goal of the group, which was to showcase works of women by contemporary women artists.
Starting as a blog in 2009, they were recognised in 2010 by the Robert Lange Studios Gallery, where they held their first exhibition. After their beginnings as a blog, the group then went on to hold another 16 exhibitions, three of which were held overseas - two in Australia, and one in the UK. In 2013, they held their first UK exhibition, and in 2016 they held their first exhibition overseas in Australia.
The goal of the exhibitions, as stated by Alia El-Bermani on a blog post with details on WPW: (R)evolution and Call, "is to expand the collective sense of what a woman is and means in the realm of art".
The group has a Facebook page also titled "Women Painting Women", where they share posts and articles relevant to women in the art field, as well as their own videos and photographs of their exhibitions. It has links to each of the founders' respective blogs. A subset of the group, 'Women Drawing Women', is an online exhibition that posts artworks of women by women. It was started in 2010, and since then has come to include a total of 36 artworks as of 2019.
Influences.
The group was first started by Alia El-Bermani, Diane Feissel and Sadie Valeri who saw that there was a lack of recognition for contemporary women artists after participating in online discussions where they discovered that there were no resources that catalogued these artists who had women as their subjects. This led to the starting of the blog "Women Painting Women", where they posted artworks of women done by women artists as well as information about current or upcoming exhibitions.
Blog.
The blog started as a way to gain recognition for contemporary women artists, who the founding members realised where underappreciated. It contains posts about artworks of women painted by women artists, and also includes information about exhibitions. There are also posts celebrating the achievements of artists who are involved in the Women Painting Women group, as well as links to external articles written on the group and their exhibitions by media outlets.
There are also links to both the websites of the galleries that are hosting the exhibitions and the order link for catalogues of some of the exhibitions. These include the 2017 "Women Painting Women: In Earnest", 2013 "WPW: (R)evolution", 2013 "WPW: (R)evolution An International Juried Exhibition", and 2012 "The Expedition and Beyond".
As of 29/4/19, the blog has 1340 followers.
Artists.
The artists who are involved in exhibitions are globally based, and although there are some artists who participate in more than one exhibition, the artists in each exhibition vary.
Aleah Chapin
Alexandra Tyng
Ali Cavanaugh
Alia El-Bermani
Alice Neel
Anna Killian
Ann Kraft Walker
Anna Rose Bain
Andrea Kemp
Andrea Kowch
Anne Nelson Sweat
Avril Thomas
Brenda Hash
Bryony Bensly
Carmen Mansilla
Catherine Prescott
Candice Bohannon
Candice Chovanec
Celeste Ryder
Cindy Procious
Colleen Barry
Dagmar Cyrulla (VIC)
Daryl Zang
Diane Feissel
Dominique Medici
Ellen Cooper
Ellen Eagle
Erin Anderson
Felice House
Felicia Forte
Fiona Bilbrough (VIC)
Gaela Erwin
Grace DeVito
Heather Ellis (VIC)
Helen K Beacham
Hung Liu
Ilaria Rosselli del Turco
Jackee Sandelands-Strom
Jacqui Grantford
Jantina Peperkamp
Janvier Rollande
Jennifer Balkan
Jenny Dubnau
Johnnie Sielbeck
Joyce Tenneson
Judy Takács
Karen Maness
Karen Offutt
Kate Sammons
Kate Savage
Katherine Fraser
Katherine Stone
Katie O'Hagan
Kathy Sosa
Kerry Brooks
Krista Smith
Kyrin Hobson
Lea Colie Wight
Lee Price
Leslie Adams
Linda Tracey Brandon
Lisa Gloria
Margaret Bowland
Margo Selski
Marilyn Szalay
Marina Dieul
Megan Roodenrys (SA)
Melissa Grimes
Milixa Morón
Mia Bergeron
Michelle Doll
Michelle Dunaway
Nancy Boren
Nancy Hollinghurst
Pamela Wilson
Rachel Constantine
Rachel Moseley
Raelene Sharp (VIC)
Renee Foulks
Sadie Valeri
Sally Ryan (NSW)
Shannon Runquist
Stanka Kordic
Sharon Allicotti
Stefani Tewes
Stephanie Deshpande
Susan Lyon
Sylvia Maier
Susan Lyon
Suzie Baker
Tanja Gant
Tara Juneau
Terry Moore Strickland
Vicki Sullivan (VIC)
Zoey Frank
Exhibitions.
Exhibitions held in America.
"Women Painting Women Show" (November 5, 2010), Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC
"Women Painting Women: The Exhibition and Beyond" (April 13, 2012), Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
"WPW: A Room of One's Own" (August 24 to October 5, 2013), Haynes Gallery, Nashville, TN
"WPW: (R)evolution" (September 7 to 27, 2013), Townsend Atelier, Chattanooga, TN
"WPW: (R)evolution" (September 20 to October 18, 2013), Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
"Women Painting Women" (September 21 to November 21, 2013), Richard J Demato Fine Art, Sag Harbor, NY
"WPW: A Universal Alliance" (September 26 to October 26, 2013), Gallery U, Westfield NJ
"Women Painting Women" (September 5 to 30, 2014), Principle Gallery, Charleston, SC
"Women Painting Women" (September 11 to November 2, 2014), Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN
"Women Painting Women" (October 11, 2014), Richard J Demato Fine Art, Sag Harbor, NY
"WPW: Texas" (May 29 to July 5, 2015), Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown, TX
"Women Painting Women" (August 11 to October 23, 2016), Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN
"Women Painting Women" (October 10, 2016), Richard J Demato Fine Art, Sag Harbor, NY
"Women Painting Women: In Earnest" (August 4 to October 2, 2017), Customs, House Museum, Clarksville, TN
"Women Painting Women: A Voice with a Vision" (October 7 to November 5, 2017), RJD Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
"Women Painting Women: In Earnest" (October 18 to December 16, 2017), J.Wayne Stark Galleries at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
"Reclamation" (June 15 to September 8, 2018), Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
Exhibitions held overseas.
"Women Paiting Women" (September 20 to October 8, 2013), Art Exposure Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
"Women Painting Women" (April 20 to May 29, 2016), Burrinja Cultural Centre, Upwey, Victoria, Australia
"Women Painting Women: In Earnest" (July 21 to August 19, 2018), Burrinja Cultural Centre, Upwey, Victoria, Australia
"Women Painting Women III" (March 6 to April 11, 2021), Burrinja Cultural Centre, Upwey, Victoria, Australia
Reception and Reviews.
Awards.
In 2013, the 'Women Painting Women' blog was awarded the 'Best Art Blog Project Virtual Challenge Cup' by Katherine Tyrrell from the 'Making a Mark' blog.
In 2013, they were also awarded 'The Art Innovation of the Year Award' for their exhibition 'Women Painting Women: (R)evolution'.
Media.
The blog itself has a page dedicated to a list of articles written by media outlets about the 'Women Painting Women' exhibitions, including links and images to the articles themselves.


Delia Zamudio

Delia Rosa Zamudio Palacios (born 1943) is an Afro-Peruvian trade unionist and leader in the activism for the rights of Afro-Peruvian women. She was the first woman to become the head of the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (). She has worked since the 1970s to improve the human and civil rights of Afro-Peruvians and working women. As a founder of the "Casa de Refugio San Juan de Lurigancho" she has worked to assist victims of domestic and sexual violence. She was recognized by the Ministry of Culture for her contributions with the Meritorious Personality of Culture Award in 2014.
Early life.
Delia Rosa Zamudio Palacios was born in 1943, on the hacienda “Hoja Redonda” in the Chincha Province of Peru to Victoria Palacios and Grimaldo Zamudio. In the 1950s, her mother migrated with her children to the La Victoria District of Lima in search of employment. After completing the third grade, Zamudio stopped attending school to care for her younger siblings to enable her mother to work. At twelve, she began working as a domestic laborer and three years later began working at the Libertad Canning Factory in the Rímac District. Simultaneously while working during the day, Zamudio returned to school and completed her primary education. In 1966, she was hired at a pharmaceutical factory and joined the union. Within three years, she was elected as the social assistance secretary of the factory union. Continuing her night studies, Zamudio completed her secondary education at the Escuela María Parado de Bellido in Rímac in 1971.
Activism.
Zamudio's struggle for her education and to earn a livable wage, as a poor black woman in a predominantly Latino culture, led her into activism. In 1970, she became a representative of the "Federation of Laboratories, Drug Stores and Affiliates" and began participating as a delegate in conventions. Openly critical of President Juan Velasco Alvarado's military regime, she attended the 1974 Convention of Industrial Communities to protest the government. Becoming a member of the Revolutionary Worker's Party (RWP), in 1975, she was selected as the secretary-general of the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (). Her election was the first time a woman or Afro-Peruvian had headed a trade organization in Peru. The CGTP is an umbrella organization of labor unions in Peru and during her tenure through 1980 as the head of the confederation, Zamudio fought for the rights of women workers. In 1977, the union held protests demanding social and political rights and Zamudio was one of those involved in the national strike. She was selected by RWP as a provisional candidate to the 1978 Constituent Assembly, but as a result of her activism, she was replaced by another candidate and lost her job.
In 1981, Zamudio was a delegate to the Convention of Mexican Laborers and the following year became secretary for women's concerns in the CGTP. In addition to her labor activism, Zamudio attended women’s rights conferences, like the Latin American Feminist Conferences held in Brazil and Mexico in 1986, as well as the 1990 Fifth Argentine Feminist Conference of Buenos Aires. Preferring to work in grassroots organizations because of the paternalistic attitude of more formal women's NGOs, Zamudio's activism focused on training and protection for working-class women. She worked with the Organizing Commission of Peruvian Women (COMUP), to evaluate problems facing women in the work force, looking at maternity rights and sexual harassment, though the proposals did not become law until the 1999 passage of Law 27240 concerning maternity and the 2003 adoption of Law 27942 regarding sexual harassment.
In the mid-1990s, when the Peruvian economy became restricted, Zamudio again lost her job and worked from a small shop in her home. In 1995, a testimonial of her life "Piel de mujer" (Woman's Skin) was published, describing what it was like to grow up as a poor, black woman with limited opportunities and how through activism and helping others, she overcame the physical and emotional abuse, racism and discrimination she faced by helping others. She founded a women's shelter, the San Juan de Lurigancho House of Refuge (), to assist women and children fleeing domestic violence in her neighborhood. Continuing her advocacy for Afro-Peruvians, she works with the Ministry of Women in the Afro-Peruvian Labor Bureau to address concerns of working women. In 2014 on International Women's Day, Zamudio was one of the honorees of the Meritorious Personality of Culture Award for her human rights work. Her testimony was republished in 2016 by the LUNDU Center for the Afro-Peruvian Study and Promotion () in a compilation which included forty case studies of violence against women of African descent in Peru.


List of female Nobel laureates

As of 2020, 57 women have won the Nobel Prize, and a total of 58 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to women (Marie Curie won it twice, once in physics and once in chemistry). While a complete count as of 2020 has not been completed yet, it was counted in 2019 that Nobel Prizes had been awarded to a total of 866 men, 53 women, and 24 organizations (counting those who won multiple prizes only once each).
The distribution of female Nobel Laureates is as follows:
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. Curie is also the only woman to have won multiple Nobel Prizes; in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, making the two the only mother-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes.
The most Nobel Prizes awarded to women in a single year was in 2009, when five women became laureates in four categories.
The most recent women to be awarded a Nobel Prize were Louise Glück in Literature, Andrea M. Ghez in Physics, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna in Chemistry (2020), Esther Duflo in Economics (2019), Donna Strickland in Physics, Frances Arnold in Chemistry, Nadia Murad for Peace, and Olga Tokarczuk in Literature (2018).