List of Powerful Mothers PART FOUR
These women are brazen They are tough, independent and smart. They waited for no one. Someone needed to compile a list of POWERFUL MOTHERS. The time has come.There are many more mothers to be added.The list keeps getting longer, so it will be divided into parts.See entire List: httphttp://allaboutbobbimillermoro.wordpress.com/
Content
PART FOUR
LIST OF POWERFUL MOTHERS.
These women are brazen They are tough, independent and smart. They waited for no one. Someone needed to compile a list of POWERFUL MOTHERS. The time has come. There are many more mothers to be added. The list keeps getting longer, so it will be divided into parts.
Wangari Maathai Nobel Peace Prize winner, environmental and political activist. Mother of three children and single. In 2004 she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.” Maathai was an elected member of Parliament and served as Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki between January 2003 and November 2005. She is of Kikuyu ethnicity. Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt movement in Kenya in 1977, which has planted more than 10 million trees to prevent soil erosion and provide firewood for cooking fires. A 1989 United Nations report noted that only 9 trees were being replanted in Africa for every 100 that were cut down, causing serious problems with deforestation: soil runoff, water pollution, difficulty finding firewood, lack of animal nutrition, etc. Wangari Maathai's husband ran for Parliament in the 1970s, and Wangari Maathai became involved in organizing work for poor people and eventually this became a national grass-roots organization, providing work and improving the environment at the same time. The project has made significant headway against Kenya's deforestation. Wangari Maathai continued her work with the Green Belt Movement, and working for environmental and women's causes. She also served as national chairperson for the National Council of Women of Kenya. In 1997 Wangari Maathai ran for the presidency of
Kenya, though the party withdrew her candidacy a few days before the election without letting her know; she was defeated for a seat in Parliament in the same election. "Maathai stood up courageously against the former oppressive regime in Kenya," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement announcing her as the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Sarah Palin American Governor of the U.S. state of Alaska and the Republican Party's vicepresidential nominee for the United States presidential election of 2008. Mother of five children and married to Tod Palin. During this time Palin won the Miss Wasilla Pageant, then finished third in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant, at which she won a college scholarship and the "Miss Congeniality" award. She then attended the Matanuska-Susitna community college in Alaska for one term. The next year she returned to the University of Idaho where she spent three semesters completing her Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, graduating in 1987. In 1988, she worked as a sports reporter for KTUU-TV and KTVATV in Anchorage, Alaska, and for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman as a sports reporter. She also helped in her husband’s commercial fishing family business. Palin was a member of the Wasilla, Alaska city council from 1992 to 1996 and mayor from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004. She was elected governor of Alaska in November 2006 by defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary and then a former two-term Democratic governor in the general election. She is the first female governor of Alaska, and the youngest person elected to the position. On August 29, 2008, presidential candidate John McCain announced he had chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Palin was formally nominated at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is the first woman to run on the Republican Party's presidential ticket and the first Alaskan nominee of either major party.
Shirin Ebadi Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support Association in Iran. Mother of two children and married to electrical engineer. Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's, children's, and refugee rights. She is the first Muslim woman to receive the prize. Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's, children's, and refugee rights. She is the first Muslim woman to receive the prize.
Susanna Brisk
Australian Comedian and actress. Mother of two children and married to Producer Barry Katz. She started modeling at the age of 16, performing stand-up comedy at the age of 17 and did her first televised stand-up spot live on Australian national television at the age of 19. Over the next four years, Brisk performed stand-up and sketch comedy on every Australian television network including The Australian Comedians in Concert (twice) at the Melbourne Concert Hall in front of 2,500 people. In addition, she wrote and performed characters for FOX Breakfast Radio, was featured in many national TV commercials and wrote, produced and performed numerous shows including Pout, Slut and White. Brisk produced and performed her one-woman show Megababe, a send-up of models and the fashion industry, when she was twenty, as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The show took place at the Universal Theatre, using a chorus of models which Brisk choreographed, and which attracted national publicity on television, radio and print media. She performs stand-up regularly at the Improv, the Comedy Store, Dublin's and the Laugh Factory. Stand-up gigs include her headlining tour with the Star Spangled Girls of US Military Bases in the Balkans, including Bosnia,
Hungary, Macedonia, Sarajevo and Kosovo and opening for international acts at The Riviera in Los Vegas. She recently screened "Whim", a short film which she wrote, produced, directed and starred in. She has also produced and performed a workshop reading of a new show Waiting to Breed, at the Larry Moss Studio. Susanna Brisk’s oneperson show Mamafied was a hit in Los Angeles.
Gloria Vanderbilt Artist, actress and socialite. Mother of four children and married to fourth husband author Wyatt Emory Cooper. Vanderbilt studied art at the Art Students League of New York. She became known for her artwork, giving one-woman shows of oil paintings, watercolors, and pastels. This artwork was adapted and licensed, starting about 1968, by Hallmark (a manufacturer of paper products) and by Bloomcraft (a textile manufacturer), and Vanderbilt began designing specifically for linens, china, glassware and flatware. During the 1970s, she licensed the use of her name on a line of fashion eyeglasses, perfume and clothing. (Initially, her involvement in clothing consisted of putting her name (in place of the previous brand name, "Lucky Pierre") on a line of blouses produced by the Murjani Corporation). In 1979, Murjani proposed launching a line of designer jeans carrying Vanderbilt's brand name; they were more tight fitting than other jeans of the day, with the heiress's name embossed in script on the back pocket. Vanderbilt also appeared in a series of television ads promoting her products. Her designer label has flourished, with the Gloria Vanderbilt "swan" logo eventually appearing on dresses and perfume as well. She married her fourth husband, author Wyatt Emory Cooper on December 24, 1963. They had two sons, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, in 1965, and future CNN reporter Anderson Hays Cooper, born in 1967.
Jane Maynard American graphic designer, photographer, writer. Mother of two children and married to This Week for Dinner(TM)! My name is Jane Maynard and I am a wife, mom and graphic designer living in the Bay Area. She has been working exclusively as a freelance graphic designer for the last 3+ years. prior to that, she worked for a corporate communications & graphic design company and a management consulting & non-profit sector company. She graduated from Boston University summa cum laude and has a DETC–accredited certificate in graphic design. She is best known for her blogs about food and her delicious photography of the food she creates.
Catherine Zeta Jones Welsh actress, presently based in the United States. Mother of two children and married to actor Michael Douglas. Starring in a number of UK and US television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment in the late 1990s. She won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for portraying Velma Kelly in the 2002 film adaptation of Chicago. Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokeswoman, currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant Elizabeth Arden. She has appeared in numerous TV
commercials for the phone company T-Mobile. She is also the spokeswoman for DiModolo jewelry.
Kara English CEO and Co-Founder of CandlesAndSuch.com, a unique site that sells party favors and gifts. Mother of two children, and married to Starr English.
Rosie O’Donnell American television host, stand-up comedian, actress and author. Mother of four children and married to former Nickelodeon marketing executive Kelli Carpenter. She has also been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, LGBT rights activist, television producer and collaborative partner in the LGBT family vacation company R Family Vacations. In May 1996, Warner Books advanced O'Donnell $3 million to write a memoir. She used the money to seed her For All Kids foundation to help institute national standards for day care across the country. On December 15, 2006, at a one-night charity event on the cruiseship Norwegian Pearl, Elizabeth Birch, Executive Director for the Rosie's For All Kids Foundation, confirmed that $50 million from her five-year contract with O'Donnell's talk show were donated in an irrevocable trust to charity. She is also reported to have contributed several hundred
thousand dollars to rehabilitate contemporary war veterans who have lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 1997, Rosie's For All Kids Foundation, overseen by Elizabeth Birch, has awarded more than $22 million in Early Childhood Care and Education program grants to over 900 nonprofit organizations. On October 30, 2006, she was honored by the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. On November 1, 2006, Nightline aired a video report about the opening of The Children's Plaza and Family Center in Renaissance Village, a FEMA trailer park in Louisiana. In 2003, Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell collaborated with Artistic Director Lori Klinger to create "Rosie's Broadway Kids", dedicated to providing free instruction in music and dance to New York City public schools or students. In 2000, O'Donnell partnered with the publishers of McCall's to revamp the magazine as Rosie's McCall's (or, more commonly,Rosie). In 2002, O'Donnell wrote Find Me, a combination of memoir, mystery and detective story with an underlying interest in re-uniting birth mothers with their children. In September 2006 O'Donnell replaced Meredith Vieira as a co-host and moderator of the daytime women-oriented daytime talk show The View. On March 27, 2007, O'Donnell started a video blog on her website Rosie.com answering fans questions, giving behind the scenes information and serving as a video diary.
Kelli Carpenter-O’ Donnell American former Nickelodeon marketing executive and co-founder of R Family Vacations. Mother of four children and married to television host, stand-up comedian, actress and author Rosie O’Donnell. Rosie and Kelli currently operate R Family Vacations, a travel company geared towards gay and lesbian families. A documentary film about the maiden cruise that set sail on July 11, 2004, was a look inside the lives of some of the 500 families that cruised from New York to the Bahamas.
Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham Maternal grandparents of Barack Obama, the United States Senator from Illinois and Democratic nominee in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Mother of one child and married to Stanley Dunham. Madelyn worked on a Boeing B-29 assembly line in Wichita. Her brother Charlie Payne was part of the 89th Infantry Division, which liberated the Nazi concentration campat Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald, a fact Barack Obama has referred to in speeches. She was the first female bank vice presidents in 1970. In 1970s Honolulu, both women and the minority white population were routinely the target of discrimination. Stanley Dunham was a fourth cousin, twice removed, of President Harry S. Truman. Stanley was also a seventh cousin, once removed, of Vice-President Dick Cheney.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis American editor and wife of the 35th president of the United States, First Lady. Mother of two children and married to 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy was among the most popular of the First Ladies. Her hairdo, the "Jackie Look", became fashionable. She was a stark contrast from her recent predecessors who were all much older. She was not only young and attractive, but intelligent and cultivated, and possessed an innate sense of style and elegance. Though she was sometimes criticized for her aloofness, expensive tastes, and European ways, the American public quickly took to her, and made her its idol. On February 14, 1962, Mrs. Kennedy took American television viewers on a tour of the White House with Charles Collingwood of CBS. In the tour she said, "I just feel that everything in the White House should be the best — the entertainment that's given here. If it's an American company you can help, I like to do that. If not — just as long as it's the best." Working with Rachel Lambert Mellon, Mrs. Kennedy oversaw redesign and replanting of the White House Rose Garden and the East Garden, which was renamed the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden after her husband's assassination. Focus and admiration for Jacqueline Kennedy took negative attention away from her husband. By attracting worldwide public attention, the First Lady gained allies for the White House and international support for the Kennedy administration and its Cold War policies. Her son said, in announcing her death to the world, "My mother died surrounded by her friends and her family and her books, and the people and the things that she loved. She did it in her own way, and on her own terms, and we all feel lucky for that." Famous quote: “If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
Caroline Kennedy American author and attorney. Mother of three children and married to exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg. She is the daughter and only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Kennedy is an attorney, editor, and writer and is a member of the New York and Washington, D.C. bars. She is one of the founders of the Profiles in Courage Award, given annually to a person who exemplifies the type of courage examined in her father's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name. Kennedy is currently President of the Kennedy Library Foundation, a director of both the Commission on Presidential Debates and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Honorary Chairman of the American Ballet Theatre. She is also an adviser to the Harvard Institute of Politics, a living memorial to her father.
Janice Dickinson American supermodel, fashion photographer, actress, author and agent. Mother of two children and single. She opened her own modeling agency, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, after judging for four cycles on America's Next Top Model. By the 1980s, Dickinson had become a supermodel, as she "possessed the kind of name and face recognition" that the majority of women in the modeling industry strive to achieve. Dickinson appeared within and on covers of magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Playboy. She
worked with some of fashion's best-known names, including Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace and Calvin Klein. Her controversial opinions and attitude towards life, sexuality and herself has given her a tabloid popularity.
Jane Fonda American Academy Award-winning actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. Mother of two children and many step children. Married to Fonda is biological mother to two children, adoptive mother and stepmother to a passel of others, including the daughter of a couple of Black Panthers. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and has appeared in films ever since. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law, and later Georgia Rule, released in 2007. She also produced and starred in several exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995. Through her production company, IPC Films, she produced films that helped return her to star status. The 1977 comedy film Fun With Dick and Jane is generally considered her "comeback" picture. Fonda has served as an activist for many political causes, one of the most notable and controversial of which was her opposition to the Vietnam War. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women. She describes herself as a liberal and a feminist. Fonda has been a longtime supporter of feminist causes, including V-Day, a movement to stop violence against women, inspired by the offBroadway hit The Vagina Monologues, of which she is an honorary chairperson. She was present at their first summit in 2002, bringing together founder Eve Ensler, Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban, and a Kenyan activist campaigning to save girls from genital mutilation. In 2001, Fonda established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia; the goal of the center is to prevent adolescent pregnancy through training and program development. Fonda has also won two Oscars. She revolutionized the exercise industry before marrying a mogul and giving up her professional life. She's suffered from bulimia, anorexia and a Dexedrine addiction. She has found God and runs a teen pregnancyprevention program. On February 16, 2004, Fonda led a march through Ciudad Juárez,
with Sally Field, Eve Ensler, and other women, urging Mexico to provide sufficient resources to newly appointed officials helping investigate the murders of hundreds of women in the rough border city. In the days before the Swedish election on September 17, 2006, Fonda came to Sweden to support the new political party Feministiskt initiativ in their election campaign. Fonda continued to participate in political activism, particularly in connection with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In September 2005, Fonda and George Galloway postponed their anti-war bus tour due to the slow start of relief operations in the Gulf Coast, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
LIST OF POWERFUL MOTHERS.
These women are brazen They are tough, independent and smart. They waited for no one. Someone needed to compile a list of POWERFUL MOTHERS. The time has come. There are many more mothers to be added. The list keeps getting longer, so it will be divided into parts.
Wangari Maathai Nobel Peace Prize winner, environmental and political activist. Mother of three children and single. In 2004 she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for “her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.” Maathai was an elected member of Parliament and served as Assistant Minister for Environment and Natural Resources in the government of President Mwai Kibaki between January 2003 and November 2005. She is of Kikuyu ethnicity. Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt movement in Kenya in 1977, which has planted more than 10 million trees to prevent soil erosion and provide firewood for cooking fires. A 1989 United Nations report noted that only 9 trees were being replanted in Africa for every 100 that were cut down, causing serious problems with deforestation: soil runoff, water pollution, difficulty finding firewood, lack of animal nutrition, etc. Wangari Maathai's husband ran for Parliament in the 1970s, and Wangari Maathai became involved in organizing work for poor people and eventually this became a national grass-roots organization, providing work and improving the environment at the same time. The project has made significant headway against Kenya's deforestation. Wangari Maathai continued her work with the Green Belt Movement, and working for environmental and women's causes. She also served as national chairperson for the National Council of Women of Kenya. In 1997 Wangari Maathai ran for the presidency of
Kenya, though the party withdrew her candidacy a few days before the election without letting her know; she was defeated for a seat in Parliament in the same election. "Maathai stood up courageously against the former oppressive regime in Kenya," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement announcing her as the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Sarah Palin American Governor of the U.S. state of Alaska and the Republican Party's vicepresidential nominee for the United States presidential election of 2008. Mother of five children and married to Tod Palin. During this time Palin won the Miss Wasilla Pageant, then finished third in the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant, at which she won a college scholarship and the "Miss Congeniality" award. She then attended the Matanuska-Susitna community college in Alaska for one term. The next year she returned to the University of Idaho where she spent three semesters completing her Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, graduating in 1987. In 1988, she worked as a sports reporter for KTUU-TV and KTVATV in Anchorage, Alaska, and for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman as a sports reporter. She also helped in her husband’s commercial fishing family business. Palin was a member of the Wasilla, Alaska city council from 1992 to 1996 and mayor from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004. She was elected governor of Alaska in November 2006 by defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary and then a former two-term Democratic governor in the general election. She is the first female governor of Alaska, and the youngest person elected to the position. On August 29, 2008, presidential candidate John McCain announced he had chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Palin was formally nominated at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is the first woman to run on the Republican Party's presidential ticket and the first Alaskan nominee of either major party.
Shirin Ebadi Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children's Rights Support Association in Iran. Mother of two children and married to electrical engineer. Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's, children's, and refugee rights. She is the first Muslim woman to receive the prize. Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's, children's, and refugee rights. She is the first Muslim woman to receive the prize.
Susanna Brisk
Australian Comedian and actress. Mother of two children and married to Producer Barry Katz. She started modeling at the age of 16, performing stand-up comedy at the age of 17 and did her first televised stand-up spot live on Australian national television at the age of 19. Over the next four years, Brisk performed stand-up and sketch comedy on every Australian television network including The Australian Comedians in Concert (twice) at the Melbourne Concert Hall in front of 2,500 people. In addition, she wrote and performed characters for FOX Breakfast Radio, was featured in many national TV commercials and wrote, produced and performed numerous shows including Pout, Slut and White. Brisk produced and performed her one-woman show Megababe, a send-up of models and the fashion industry, when she was twenty, as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The show took place at the Universal Theatre, using a chorus of models which Brisk choreographed, and which attracted national publicity on television, radio and print media. She performs stand-up regularly at the Improv, the Comedy Store, Dublin's and the Laugh Factory. Stand-up gigs include her headlining tour with the Star Spangled Girls of US Military Bases in the Balkans, including Bosnia,
Hungary, Macedonia, Sarajevo and Kosovo and opening for international acts at The Riviera in Los Vegas. She recently screened "Whim", a short film which she wrote, produced, directed and starred in. She has also produced and performed a workshop reading of a new show Waiting to Breed, at the Larry Moss Studio. Susanna Brisk’s oneperson show Mamafied was a hit in Los Angeles.
Gloria Vanderbilt Artist, actress and socialite. Mother of four children and married to fourth husband author Wyatt Emory Cooper. Vanderbilt studied art at the Art Students League of New York. She became known for her artwork, giving one-woman shows of oil paintings, watercolors, and pastels. This artwork was adapted and licensed, starting about 1968, by Hallmark (a manufacturer of paper products) and by Bloomcraft (a textile manufacturer), and Vanderbilt began designing specifically for linens, china, glassware and flatware. During the 1970s, she licensed the use of her name on a line of fashion eyeglasses, perfume and clothing. (Initially, her involvement in clothing consisted of putting her name (in place of the previous brand name, "Lucky Pierre") on a line of blouses produced by the Murjani Corporation). In 1979, Murjani proposed launching a line of designer jeans carrying Vanderbilt's brand name; they were more tight fitting than other jeans of the day, with the heiress's name embossed in script on the back pocket. Vanderbilt also appeared in a series of television ads promoting her products. Her designer label has flourished, with the Gloria Vanderbilt "swan" logo eventually appearing on dresses and perfume as well. She married her fourth husband, author Wyatt Emory Cooper on December 24, 1963. They had two sons, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, in 1965, and future CNN reporter Anderson Hays Cooper, born in 1967.
Jane Maynard American graphic designer, photographer, writer. Mother of two children and married to This Week for Dinner(TM)! My name is Jane Maynard and I am a wife, mom and graphic designer living in the Bay Area. She has been working exclusively as a freelance graphic designer for the last 3+ years. prior to that, she worked for a corporate communications & graphic design company and a management consulting & non-profit sector company. She graduated from Boston University summa cum laude and has a DETC–accredited certificate in graphic design. She is best known for her blogs about food and her delicious photography of the food she creates.
Catherine Zeta Jones Welsh actress, presently based in the United States. Mother of two children and married to actor Michael Douglas. Starring in a number of UK and US television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment in the late 1990s. She won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for portraying Velma Kelly in the 2002 film adaptation of Chicago. Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokeswoman, currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant Elizabeth Arden. She has appeared in numerous TV
commercials for the phone company T-Mobile. She is also the spokeswoman for DiModolo jewelry.
Kara English CEO and Co-Founder of CandlesAndSuch.com, a unique site that sells party favors and gifts. Mother of two children, and married to Starr English.
Rosie O’Donnell American television host, stand-up comedian, actress and author. Mother of four children and married to former Nickelodeon marketing executive Kelli Carpenter. She has also been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, LGBT rights activist, television producer and collaborative partner in the LGBT family vacation company R Family Vacations. In May 1996, Warner Books advanced O'Donnell $3 million to write a memoir. She used the money to seed her For All Kids foundation to help institute national standards for day care across the country. On December 15, 2006, at a one-night charity event on the cruiseship Norwegian Pearl, Elizabeth Birch, Executive Director for the Rosie's For All Kids Foundation, confirmed that $50 million from her five-year contract with O'Donnell's talk show were donated in an irrevocable trust to charity. She is also reported to have contributed several hundred
thousand dollars to rehabilitate contemporary war veterans who have lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 1997, Rosie's For All Kids Foundation, overseen by Elizabeth Birch, has awarded more than $22 million in Early Childhood Care and Education program grants to over 900 nonprofit organizations. On October 30, 2006, she was honored by the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. On November 1, 2006, Nightline aired a video report about the opening of The Children's Plaza and Family Center in Renaissance Village, a FEMA trailer park in Louisiana. In 2003, Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell collaborated with Artistic Director Lori Klinger to create "Rosie's Broadway Kids", dedicated to providing free instruction in music and dance to New York City public schools or students. In 2000, O'Donnell partnered with the publishers of McCall's to revamp the magazine as Rosie's McCall's (or, more commonly,Rosie). In 2002, O'Donnell wrote Find Me, a combination of memoir, mystery and detective story with an underlying interest in re-uniting birth mothers with their children. In September 2006 O'Donnell replaced Meredith Vieira as a co-host and moderator of the daytime women-oriented daytime talk show The View. On March 27, 2007, O'Donnell started a video blog on her website Rosie.com answering fans questions, giving behind the scenes information and serving as a video diary.
Kelli Carpenter-O’ Donnell American former Nickelodeon marketing executive and co-founder of R Family Vacations. Mother of four children and married to television host, stand-up comedian, actress and author Rosie O’Donnell. Rosie and Kelli currently operate R Family Vacations, a travel company geared towards gay and lesbian families. A documentary film about the maiden cruise that set sail on July 11, 2004, was a look inside the lives of some of the 500 families that cruised from New York to the Bahamas.
Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham Maternal grandparents of Barack Obama, the United States Senator from Illinois and Democratic nominee in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Mother of one child and married to Stanley Dunham. Madelyn worked on a Boeing B-29 assembly line in Wichita. Her brother Charlie Payne was part of the 89th Infantry Division, which liberated the Nazi concentration campat Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald, a fact Barack Obama has referred to in speeches. She was the first female bank vice presidents in 1970. In 1970s Honolulu, both women and the minority white population were routinely the target of discrimination. Stanley Dunham was a fourth cousin, twice removed, of President Harry S. Truman. Stanley was also a seventh cousin, once removed, of Vice-President Dick Cheney.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis American editor and wife of the 35th president of the United States, First Lady. Mother of two children and married to 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy was among the most popular of the First Ladies. Her hairdo, the "Jackie Look", became fashionable. She was a stark contrast from her recent predecessors who were all much older. She was not only young and attractive, but intelligent and cultivated, and possessed an innate sense of style and elegance. Though she was sometimes criticized for her aloofness, expensive tastes, and European ways, the American public quickly took to her, and made her its idol. On February 14, 1962, Mrs. Kennedy took American television viewers on a tour of the White House with Charles Collingwood of CBS. In the tour she said, "I just feel that everything in the White House should be the best — the entertainment that's given here. If it's an American company you can help, I like to do that. If not — just as long as it's the best." Working with Rachel Lambert Mellon, Mrs. Kennedy oversaw redesign and replanting of the White House Rose Garden and the East Garden, which was renamed the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden after her husband's assassination. Focus and admiration for Jacqueline Kennedy took negative attention away from her husband. By attracting worldwide public attention, the First Lady gained allies for the White House and international support for the Kennedy administration and its Cold War policies. Her son said, in announcing her death to the world, "My mother died surrounded by her friends and her family and her books, and the people and the things that she loved. She did it in her own way, and on her own terms, and we all feel lucky for that." Famous quote: “If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
Caroline Kennedy American author and attorney. Mother of three children and married to exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg. She is the daughter and only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Kennedy is an attorney, editor, and writer and is a member of the New York and Washington, D.C. bars. She is one of the founders of the Profiles in Courage Award, given annually to a person who exemplifies the type of courage examined in her father's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name. Kennedy is currently President of the Kennedy Library Foundation, a director of both the Commission on Presidential Debates and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Honorary Chairman of the American Ballet Theatre. She is also an adviser to the Harvard Institute of Politics, a living memorial to her father.
Janice Dickinson American supermodel, fashion photographer, actress, author and agent. Mother of two children and single. She opened her own modeling agency, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, after judging for four cycles on America's Next Top Model. By the 1980s, Dickinson had become a supermodel, as she "possessed the kind of name and face recognition" that the majority of women in the modeling industry strive to achieve. Dickinson appeared within and on covers of magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Playboy. She
worked with some of fashion's best-known names, including Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace and Calvin Klein. Her controversial opinions and attitude towards life, sexuality and herself has given her a tabloid popularity.
Jane Fonda American Academy Award-winning actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. Mother of two children and many step children. Married to Fonda is biological mother to two children, adoptive mother and stepmother to a passel of others, including the daughter of a couple of Black Panthers. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and has appeared in films ever since. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with Monster in Law, and later Georgia Rule, released in 2007. She also produced and starred in several exercise videos released between 1982 and 1995. Through her production company, IPC Films, she produced films that helped return her to star status. The 1977 comedy film Fun With Dick and Jane is generally considered her "comeback" picture. Fonda has served as an activist for many political causes, one of the most notable and controversial of which was her opposition to the Vietnam War. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women. She describes herself as a liberal and a feminist. Fonda has been a longtime supporter of feminist causes, including V-Day, a movement to stop violence against women, inspired by the offBroadway hit The Vagina Monologues, of which she is an honorary chairperson. She was present at their first summit in 2002, bringing together founder Eve Ensler, Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban, and a Kenyan activist campaigning to save girls from genital mutilation. In 2001, Fonda established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia; the goal of the center is to prevent adolescent pregnancy through training and program development. Fonda has also won two Oscars. She revolutionized the exercise industry before marrying a mogul and giving up her professional life. She's suffered from bulimia, anorexia and a Dexedrine addiction. She has found God and runs a teen pregnancyprevention program. On February 16, 2004, Fonda led a march through Ciudad Juárez,
with Sally Field, Eve Ensler, and other women, urging Mexico to provide sufficient resources to newly appointed officials helping investigate the murders of hundreds of women in the rough border city. In the days before the Swedish election on September 17, 2006, Fonda came to Sweden to support the new political party Feministiskt initiativ in their election campaign. Fonda continued to participate in political activism, particularly in connection with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In September 2005, Fonda and George Galloway postponed their anti-war bus tour due to the slow start of relief operations in the Gulf Coast, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
