Sentences with phrase «career as an activist»

Hrabowski — a child of prominent Civil Rights activist of the 1960s — has long advocated for minority rights and education throughout his career as an activist, educator, administrator, author, and consultant.

A graduate of the University of Illinois, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Yale Law School, Saujani began her career as an activist and an attorney, serving as deputy public advocate for New York City.

During his 60 - year career as an activist, organiser and «troublemaker,» Bayard Rustin formulated many of the strategies that propelled the American civil rights movement.

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Shapiro started his career as a syndicated conservative columnist at the age of 17 but wrote a critique in February of Parkland activists like Hogg and Gonzalez, pointing out their youth and saying, «Children and teenagers are not fully rational actors.

CNN: With «Monumental» Kirk Cameron emerges as Christian activist Kirk Cameron could have joined the ranks of former TV heartthrobs who rode off into the sunset, reappearing only for the occasional reunion show or career - reviving role in a TV drama.

William Sloane Coffin's Once to Every Man (Atheneum) recounts the rich career of an activist clergyman who served as chaplain at Yale University for 17 years, during which time he was involved in civil rights demonstrations in the south, student work camps in Africa, Peace Corps training in Puerto Rico, and antiwar protests in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

Once an ardent political activist, Marianne is now in law (a career imposed by her parents), but she is not pleading the cause of the oppressed as she had once dreamed.

The book made Lively's career as an anti-LGBT activist, and though actual historians have dismissed it and refuted it, the anti-LGBT right continues to peddle it and its ideas.

She was a stay - at - home mother who launched a full - time career as a political activist and public speaker from nearly the day her first child was born, doing a neat end - run around the feminists who claimed to have invented the idea that a married woman could have a professional life.

Kevin has a long and distinguished career as an educator, a social justice activist, a teacher, and an author.

Before her career as a photographer took off, Grossman was a labor activist within the teachers» union and a member of the American Labor Party.

Until the late 1990s, a central fear was of a bar to a political career, either through discrimination by poltiical party selectorates or, as often, a feeling among would - be liberal party activists that the public wouldn't buy it.

A lifelong third - party activist and veteran of Dr. Benjamin Spock's 1972 presidential campaign on the long - forgotten People's Party ticket, the 61 - year - old Hawkins is hoping New York's 125th Street and Lexington Avenue — a familiar spot picked out by Credico — proves to be his lucky corner, just as 116th Street and Lexington Avenue proved to be the late Fiorello H. La Guardia's «Lucky Corner» during his long and colorful political career.

My political career began as an activist in the cross-party «yes to Europe» campaign in 1975.

Barrett, 61, is a self - employed consultant for not - for - profit organizations who has a long career as a community activist and leader of not - for - profit organizations in the Hudson Valley.

«As a dedicated neighborhood activist for my entire career, I know the needs of my community and will be a tireless voice for organized labor and our City's progressive values.»

ALBANY — New York's Senate on Thursday honored the late David Bowie for his long career as an influential musician, actor, activist and fashion trendsetter.

The state Senate today honored the late David Bowie for his long career as an influential musician, actor, activist and fashion trendsetter.

So there was a bittersweet feeling in the air at Mohonk Mountain House as the Gardiner Democratic Committee gathered community activists, current and former public officials, staff from various land trusts and environmental organizations and other local luminaries to review some highlights of Hinchey's career and give him a sentimental sendoff.

Zimet began her political career in the 1990s as an activist fighting against a proposed Wal - Mart in New Paltz.

Writing became a career in itself while still providing a useful promotional tool for me as an activist and yogi.

Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Kevorkian in director Barry Levinson's made - for - HBO biopic tracing the controversial career of the outspoken assisted suicide advocate / activist.

This mischievous ethos has rarely been better displayed than on this often uneasy listening set from Berlin - based, old - school activist DJs Graef and Astro who, after name - making solo careers, came together last year to form their Money $ ex imprint as a platform for their woozy marriages of obscure vinyl sensibility and startling aural foraging.

Matthew McConaughey «s heartbreaking portrayal of a homophobe turned AIDS activist in Dallas Buyers Club Robert Redford in All is Lost, his best performance, capping off a multi-decade, successful career as both actor and director.

Johnson plays Davis Okoye, a Special Forces operative who took on a second career as an anti-poaching activist and primate handler.

The new miniseries is written and created by Sarah Polley, the Canadian director, actress, and activist who followed up a career as a child star (Road to Avonlea, Ramona) with the assured directorial debut Away From Her in 2006.

Elsewhere the programme bounces us from documentaries on Republican candidate Mitt Romney to internet activist Aaron Swartz; from John Michael McDonagh's wonderfully impish Calvary (showcasing a superb performance from Brendan Gleeson as a priest in peril) to Marjane Satrapi's ghoulish The Voices, in which Ryan Reynolds's grinning psycho - killer receives career advice from a satanic pet cat by the name of Mr Whiskers.

An artist disinclined to rest on his laurels, Gere takes the stage in this Mavericks session to reflect on his diverse four - decade career as movie star, sex symbol, style icon, political activist and devoted Tibetan Buddhist.

It might have been compelling to see the actress portray Lovelace's descent into drug abuse or her contentious career as an anti-porn activist, but it seems the ambivalence of that period — which saw Lovelace publicly repudiate her past stardom and then charge her celebrity - feminist supporters with their own form of exploitation — would exceed this disappointingly slight film's very slender parameters.

«The L&T cohort has been enriched and inspired by the life and career choices Sedia has made, and they have been inspired further by her enthusiasm and positive «can - do» activist attitude that celebrates education as a vehicle for the improvement of the lives those who are most in need.»

Leonie Haimson's career as a New York City education activist started when her older child was assigned to a first - grade class with 28 other students.

The most public face of deep value investing is Carl Icahn, known for his «battering - ram personality,» who has had a long, storied career as a discount options broker, arbitrageur and liquidator of closed - end mutual funds, corporate raider, and activist investor.

I mostly mention it here as Ron Brierley, its founder, probably has had one of the longest careers globally as an activist investor.

Had record of advocacy for non-violent food nearly as long as careers in comedy and civil rights Dick Gregory, 84, remembered by most media as «a groundbreaking comedian and civil rights activist,» but also actively advocating a vegan lifestyle for nearly two - thirds of his life, died in Washington D.C. on August 19, 2017 from a -LSB-...]

Donald Moffett, whose paintings and prints are currently on view at the Blanton, discusses growing up in San Antonio, and his career as an artist and an activist based in New York with acclaimed novelist and art critic Jim Lewis.

Closing weekend of the MCA exhibition, Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen, a career retrospective spanning 5 decades of Ms. Pindell's work as artist and activist.

In the first major institutional survey of his artistic career, the display will showcase pieces by the Chinese artist and political activist made since his return to China in 1993, as well as new site - specific installations.

The group were also activists for equal representation of women in institutional art, and highlighted artist Louise Bourgeois in their «Advantages to Being a Women artist,» poster in 1988 as one line read, «Knowing your career might not pick up till after you're 80.»

Although Ms. Buchanan came to art as a second career, after a decade as a public health educator in East Orange, N.J., she sought out professional instruction and made many insider connections, taking classes with the abstract painter and activist Norman Lewis at the Art Students League of New York and finding another mentor in Lewis's friend Romare Bearden.

Smith, whose work often explores feminist themes through depictions of the female body and women from history and mythology, is drawn to the complexity of Bakerʼs career as a performer / showgirl, and a social and political activist.

Throughout his career Reinhardt engaged in art - world activist politics, participating in the famous protests against The Museum of Modern Art in 1940 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1950 (among the group that became known as «The Irascibles»).

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

Susan E. Cahan, a curator, scholar, and dean of the arts at Yale College, has spent her career working in museums and academia, the entire time researching this book, which is substantiated by countless interviews with artists (Benny Andrews, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, among others), activists, and museum officials, as well as institutional documents, correspondence, and archival images.

A graphic artist, activist, successful podcast host, author and hand - painted lettering specialist, he kicked off his career with clients such as the Guardian and WWE.

«There have been the singing nun and the flying nun, but the hippest of all is Los Angeles's painting nun,» noted Newsweek in its 1967 cover story on Sister Corita Kent, the artist, activist, and teacher, whose first career survey, as The Saratogian reports, opened at the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore college this week.

During his career as a revolutionary writer, composer, and activist, Ginsberg extensively documented his life in photographs, amassing an archive that now encompasses thousands of images.

In a career as an artist and activist spanning more than 30 years, Ms. Himid has tried to bring black history to greater attention.

The exhibition charts «the development of White's practice, from his emergence as a force in the Chicago art world through his mature career as an artist, activist, and educator in New York and Los Angeles.»

Rollins is an activist and teacher who began his career as the assistant to conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth.

Founded in 1941 through the efforts of such cultural activists as Margaret Burroughs, the South Side Community Art Center played a key role in nurturing the careers of postwar black artists like Eldzier Cortor, Marion Perkins, and Archibald Motley Jr..