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Women and Adversity: Mary Hemphill, Ph.D., Educator, Leadership Coach

Mary Hemphill, Ph.D. Educator, Leadership Coach

Women and Adversity: Mary Hemphill, Ph.D.
Educator, Leadership Coach

 I heard Dr. Mary Hemphill speak at the Brunswick County, North Carolina, Chamber of Commerce Women in Business Impact Brunch and knew I had to feature her on my blog.

She emphasizes that every woman can overcome adversity and reach her goals. When she was 36 years old, she founded The Limitless Lady LLC to help women do that. She has received dozens of accolades for her achievements and wants to share with women  how to develop their talents and succeed. She is an educator, college professor, leadership coach, inspirational speaker and author.

I asked her what the biggest obstacle was that she faced when she decided to found The Limitless Lady LLC. She said:

I had to make sure I blocked the naysayers who say, “You can’t make a career change this late in life; you’re not trained to be an entrepreneur; you’ve never taught a business class.” I had to channel “I can. I can keep going. This is possible. Literally the word ‘impossible” is “I’m possible.” I kept reminding myself of that. I kept saying that had to be the loudest channel in my head to keep going forward.

Why did she want to found The Limitless Lady?

Because I was limited. That’s where The Limitless Lady came from. There are systems in society, things that people say, ways that we go about in life that limit us. I wanted to create something limitless for women to tap into and to be able to pursue their dreams, their career, whether they are 60, 70 or 19. You have this limitlessness inside of you and once you tap into it, you know how to get off the limited path. I want to do that for women because women did it for me. I just feel like I had this goal, this feeling inside me, and I was obedient to this calling inside me and finally had to take the lead.

Dr. Hemphill’s Advice:

Walk into every room as if you belongStop apologizing for taking up space.Ask better questions to glean better answers. Replace “what” and “who” questions with “how” and “why.”Assert yourself when something goes against your personal, company and community values.Be where you are on purpose. It is the difference between existing and living. The small choice you made today creates big results tomorrow.

BIO:

Born and grew up in Hickory, NC2005 – Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and elementary education, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC2010 – Master’s degree in school administration, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC2014 – Ph.D. in leadership studies, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, Greensboro

Career:

Elementary school teacher2016-17 – Principal of the Year, Scotland County Schools2016-17 – NC Regional Principal of the Year, Sandhills Region2017 – Co-founder of Rebrand NC Education. Its goal is to recognize NC school leaders who provide innovative ways to help students succeed.2019 – Appointed the first North Carolina K-12director of computer science and technology education2019 – Founder/CEO of The Limitless Lady2020 – Adjunct professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill2020 – Wrote The One-Minute Meeting: Creating Student Stakeholders in Schools. The book assists school leaders and administrators to empower their students.

More information

www.bealimitlessleader.com/limitless-lady
www.evolveme.work/post/how-she-did-it-dr-mary-hemphill
mary@thelimitlesslady.com

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Women and Adversity: My Interview for writersonthemove.com

Slide from Dr. Mary Hemphill presentation, Chamber of Commerce Women of Impact, Brunswick County, NC.

Women and Adversity:
My Interview for writersonthemove.com

I was honored to be featured in writersonthemove.com by Suzanne Lieurance, author of 40 books and a writing coach. The complete interview is available at https://www.writersonthemove.com/2023/12/in-spotlight-interview-with-journalist.html, which I have posted in as many places as possible!

It’s amazing, though, when I read the interview after it was published, how much important information I didn’t include. For instance, I didn’t mention that the article I wrote about the humorous side of having a car stolen was for Grit, a family magazine. The magazine continues to be published but praises rural living, which I don’t recall it doing when I had my story published decades ago. Another fact I didn’t include was that the story was the first one I got paid for. A week after that check arrived, I received my second check for a story I sent to Ligourian, a religion magazine. Those acceptances energized me to continue writing.

Another fact I didn’t include in the interview was the name of my local newspaper that published the story of the experiences of two women, one a fiancé of a Chicago Bears football player and the other married to a former Bears player. The paper was The Star in Tinley Park, IL. As an aside, in 2007 the paper merged with the Daily Southtown and became the SouthtownStar, which the Chicago Tribune later bought.

I say in the interview, “I got a call from the features editor, who asked me if I wanted to write as a freelancer for the paper.” The fantastic, encouraging features editor was the late Joanne Zerkel. That story started a host of assignments and an offer to be on staff part time, which I accepted. I think my title was copy editor.

Where does this lead?

When writing a story, make a separate list of the items you believe MUST be in it.Like Santa, check the list twice.Reread your story to confirm you have all those points included.

I believe in advocacy for women to achieve their goals. The image I include here is from Dr. Mary Hemphill’s presentation at the Women of Impact Luncheon in Brunswick County, NC.

More on this dynamic woman in February.

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Women and Adversity: Welcome, 2024!

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This year marks the 10th anniversary of me writing Women and Adversity. As I stated in my initial 2023 post, I started this blog to promote women writers and praise their achievements. I expanded past authors and have included musicians, athletes and businesswomen. In 2023 I featured women in politics across the globe and ended with the four women who won a Nobel Prize. This year I plan to feature women whose achievements were credited to men. Oh, no!! Historical novelist Marie Benedict writes about this in Her Hidden Genius. Rosalind Franklin discovered the components of DNA, but men stole the glory from her.

When I wrote my three ebooks in 2020: Honoring 23 Black Women, Recognizing 23 Notable Mothers, and Saluting 23 Faithful Suffragists, I featured them on my blog. Some are historical figures while others are living their dreams or pursuing their dreams.

My purpose in writing this blog is not only to highlight women but to encourage women to overcome obstacles standing in their way.

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Women and Adversity: Adele Myers, novelist The Tobacco Wives

Adele Myers, Novelist

Women and Adversity:
Adele Myers, novelist
The Tobacco Wives

My last blog post in December is always a repeat of one I posted during the year, and this year I want to reprint my blog on Adele Myers. The reason is because she’s a North Carolina native, and her debut novel, The Tobacco Wives, is an excellent read.

Pelican Bookstore in Sunset Beach, North Carolina scheduled Myers to appear at Silver Coast Winery in Ocean Isle Beach since the bookstore has limited space, and Myers was kind enough to answer my questions before her presentation. As I’ve written in the past, I ask women who have made a name for themselves as successful writers what obstacles stood and still stand in their way as a writer.

The book:

Myers opens the door into the lives of tobacco industry wives from the 1940s. She knew a lot about the tobacco industry since her parents and grandparents worked for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her grandmother was a hairdresser for many wives who were married to tobacco industry executives, and she labeled the women ‘the tobacco wives.’ In the book, teen Maddie Sykes comes to live with her Aunt Etta, a seamstress for the ‘tobacco wives.’ Maddie learns about their lives and discovers a letter that reveals a tobacco industry secret, which all the world now knows.

Myers bio:

Grew up in Asheville, North CarolinaSpend a lot of her growing up years in Winston-SalemEarned a degree in journalism from University of North Carolina at Chapel HillMoved to New York where she got—and still has—a full-time job in advertising.Married, had a son

Writing career:

The Tobacco Wives started as a short story more than 20 years agoAbout eight years ago, she decided to write a novelThe obstacle: “Not knowing how to write a novel,” she says.A former teacher suggested books on plot and characterShe joined a writers’ group where other women were published. “That made a difference,” she says. “They encouraged me and said I could get the book published. Sometimes your obstacles are your own beliefs or limited beliefs about yourself and lack of confidence.”Contacted 70-80 agents over 18 months before an agent had faith in the book.The Tobacco Wives was published in 2022.

What obstacles she faces now:

Has a contract to write her next book.“I have a year to write it,” she says. “That will be a different experience from my first book.”

“My path to publishing has been paved with women who have encouraged me and validated me. I always knew I wanted to write. To spend so much time on a story, not knowing whether anyone’s going to want to read it, I think you kind of have to have a couple screws loose.”

“I fumbled my way through. I had no idea how long it takes and how many setbacks there are. You just have to be persistent, and I think there’s a lot of luck.”

Learn more:
www.adelemyersauthor.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVk4dO0xhm4
https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/adele-myers-on-family-history-inspiring-fiction

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Women and Adversity: Karen C. Whalen, Novelist

     Women and Adversity:
Karen C. Whalen, Novelist

Friends Come to Call, Karen C. Whalen’s fourth novel in her Tow Truck Murder Mysteries, captivates the reader to the very end. Mystery, romance and intrigue combine to make the reader question, deliberate and draw conclusions, although not necessarily the solution to the mystery. With the Christmas theme, it’s a perfect gift to engross teens through seniors in a fun-to-read book.

Whalen’s books are cozy mysteries—no sex, no violence, no inappropriate language—just a good book to grab and read. How clever Whalen is to incorporate tow trucks. She studies the business and makes sure what she writes is accurate, so her protagonist, Delaney Morran, knows what she’s doing on the job.

The Tow Truck Mystery Series is the second novel series Whalen has written. The Dinner Club Series includes seven mysteries with clever titles: Everything Bundt the Truth, Not According to Flan, No Grater Evil, A Stewed Observation, Just What I Kneaded, Peaches and Creamed and Wasted Thyme.

When I feature authors on my blog, I ask them what obstacles they had to overcome when they decided to be a writer and what obstacles they face once they are published.

Whalen says:

When I decided to write a novel, the obstacle I faced was to have confidence in myself that I could do it. Once I finished the first draft of the first book in the Dinner Club Series—Everything Bundt the Truth—I realized, yes, I could write a complete novel. I think there are a lot of writers like me who don’t believe they can do it, but they can. I admit it takes discipline and time.

Obstacles Whalen faces now:

The same! I have what is called imposter syndrome, not having confidence in what I have achieved. Friends Come to Call is my 11th published book, and I still wonder, “Do readers like my books?”

Whalen bio:

Grew up in Peoria, IllinoisMajored in political science, minored in journalism at Northern Illinois University in DeKalbWorked as a paralegal in Denver, ColoradoWas a columnist and contributor to The National Paralegal Reporter magazine2016—publication of Everything Bundt the Truth. Whalen quit her jobs and became a full-time writer.Moved to North Carolina to be closer to grandchildren. “The lure to Brunswick County was the beautiful beaches,” she says.

Books:

The Dinner Club Series—7 booksThe Tow Truck Series—5 books:  Toes on the Dash, Hands on the Wheel, Eyes on the Road, Friends Come to Call, and due out in May 2024, Stiletto to the Pedal 

Learn more about Whalen:

www.karencwhalen.com
www.facebook.com/whalencozyauthor
www.twitter.com/whalenkc
www.instagram.com/karen_c_whalen_author
www.pinterest.com/whalenkarenc

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Women and Adversity: Anne L’Huillier, 2023 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics

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Women and Adversity:
Anne L’Huillier
2023 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics

Anne L’Huillier was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics and is the  fourth woman to win a Nobel Prize in 2023. She shares the prize with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz. She is a professor of atomic physics at Lund University in Sweden.

The French pronunciation of L’Huillier is Lou we⸍ lee A while the American pronunciation is Lou we⸍ lee er. She and the other two physicists received the award for “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.” I had to quote from the Unesco post because I don’t understand a word of it.

Unesco adds that in 2011 L’Huillier won the L’Oreal-Unesco for Women in Science International award for developing the world’s fastest camera to record events in attoseconds, which are a billionth of a billionth of a second. The New York Times explains that electrons move at 43 miles a second. The experimental technique the physicists created uses short light pulses to capture an electron’s movement at a single moment in time.

Bio

Born – August 16, 1958 in Paris
1980 – bachelor’s degree in mathematics from École normale supérieure in Fontenay-aux-Roses, a suburb of Paris
Earned a double master’s degree in theoretical physics and mathematics
1986 – doctorate degree in experimental physics from Pierre and Marie Curie University

Career

1986 – Chalmers Institute of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden; permanent position as a researcher at Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique at Saclay
1988  –  University of Southern California, researcher
1993  –  Visiting scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California
1994  –  Moved to Sweden  1995  – Associate professor, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
1997-present – Professor of physics, Lund University
2004 – Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Personal life
Married to Claes-Göran Wahlström, a physicist at Lund University.
The couple has two children, but no information is available about them.

Learn more about L’Huillier
https://tvshowstars.com/anne-lhuillier-famille-husband-and-children
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/watch-live-2023-nobel-prize-in-physics-winner-announced#:~:text=The%20award%20went%20to%20French,our%20bodies%20and%20our%20gadgets.
unesco.org/en/articles/anne-lhuillier...

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Women and Adversity: Claudia Goldin, 2023 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics

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Women and Adversity:
Claudia Goldin
2023 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics

Claudia Goldin is the third woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics, and the first woman to receive it without sharing it with another economist. She concentrated her research on women in the workforce over the past 200 years. Her research shows how women’s participation in the workforce changed through the 1800s and 1900s. She presents factors that influence the gender, pay and hiring biases. The 1970s was especially influential because women had access to the birth control pill, which gave them a reason to marry later and to get a higher education. Today women still have a wage gap—80 cents to each dollar a man makes—but now the gap usually starts when a woman has her first child.

Goldin has written several books, including Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women and Women Working Longer: Increased Employment at Older Ages. She wrote The Race Between Education and Technology with her husband, Lawrence Katz. It was the winner of the 2008 R.R. Hawkins Award for the most outstanding scholarly work in all disciplines of the arts and sciences.

She is a true scholar, and anyone delving into her work will spend hours poring over it. Listening to YouTube videos helps understand her work.

Bio
Born – May 14, 1946 in New York, New York
Father was a data processing manager at Burlington Industries
Mother was principal of Bronx Public School 105
Karen, her sister, is a journalist and author of several books
1964 – Graduated from Bronx High School of Science
1967 – Bachelor’s degree in economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1969 – Master’s degree in economics, University of Chicago
1972 – Ph.D. in industrial organization and labor economics, University of Chicago

 Career
1972-1973 – Assistant professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1973-1979 – Princeton University, New Jersey
1979-1990 – Tenured full professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
1989-2017 – Director of the Development of the American Economy Program at National Bureau of Economic Research
1990 – First woman granted a tenured professorship in economics at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Present – Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard

Personal Life
Married to Lawrence Katz for more than 30 years. He is a labor economist at Harvard with research focused on minimum wage, immigration
and education.
The couple have two children. Ben is a software engineer, and Sarah is a student at Harvard.

Learn more about Goldin:
Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel in Economics for Studying Women in the Work Force – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

The Gender Pay Gap in 2022 (Claudia Goldin Interview) YouTube

Harvard’s Claudia Goldin awarded Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Harvard Gazette

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Women and Adversity: Narges Mohammadi, 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Narges Mohammadi, 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner (Wikimedia Commons)

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Women and Adversity:
Narges Mohammadi
2023 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

The suppression of women in Iran goes beyond what any American woman can imagine. Maybe you were passed up for a job, like I was, because a man applied, but to be jailed because you speak out against the government, don’t follow the government’s dress code, dance in public or don’t get spousal approval to travel are beyond any restrictions American woman can envision.

Narges Mohammadi (pronounced Nar⸍ gess Mohama⸍ dee) was sentenced to 10 years in Tehran’s Evin prison for “spreading anti-state propaganda.” She remains in prison but was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize October 6 for her efforts to have equal rights for women in Iran. She has been arrested 13 times and sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. She interviews women in the prison, reports stories of atrocities there and speaks out against the Iranian hijab rule.

Bio
Born April 21, 1972 in Zanjan, Iran
1990s – Studied physics at  Imam Khomeini University; founded a political group for Students. She began to actively protest for women’s equality in Iran in the early 90s.
Imprisoned in 1998 and has been intermittently imprisoned since then.

Career
Engineer for a building inspections company
Wrote for publications favoring reform, focusing on human rights and women’s issues
2003 – Joined Defenders of Human Rights Center, which advocates for political prisoners. Shirin Ebadi co-founded the group. She is the only other Iranian to receive the Nobel Prize for peace. Mohammadi is now deputy director of the group. It has been banned in Iran since 2008.
2009 –  Arrested for participating in the organization; her passport was confiscated
2011 – arrested; her husband fled to France with their children
2016-2020 – Imprisoned
2022 – She reports on the atrocities in Evin prison and has written White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners. She won the Reporters Without Borders Courage prize in 2022.

Personal Life
1999 – Married Taghi Rahmani, an intellectual who wants reforms in Iran. He has been imprisoned for his protests.
2006 – Twins, a boy, Ali, and girl, Kiana

Learn more about Mohammadi:
https://time.com/6321404/nobel-laureate-narges-mohammadis-evin-prison
Narges Mohammadi, Iranian Rights Activist, Receives Nobel Peace Prize – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/06/middleeast/iran-narges-mohammadi-womens-rights-mime-intl-cmd/index.html

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Women and Adversity: Katalin Karikó 2023 Winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine

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Women and Adversity:
Katalin Karikó
2023 Winner of Nobel Prize
in Medicine

Katalin “Kati” Karikó’s scientific pursuit is a journey of determination. She believed in her research of mRNA technology despite countless humiliations. That determination paid off October 2 when she won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. The actual name of the Nobel is Physiology or Medicine. Karikó shares the honor with Dr. Drew Weissman for their contributions to mRNA technology and the COVID-19 vaccines.

An online explanation of mRNA says it is a subtype of ribonucleic acid (RNA). At https://byjus.com it says DNA and messenger RNA (mRNA) are two types of nucleic acids that carry genetic information. That may help some people investigate more, but this blog is about how Karikó got to this point.

Bio

Born January 17, 1955 in Szolnok, Hungary and grew up in Kisújszállás in a home that had no running water or refrigerator or television. Her father was a butcher, and her mother was a bookkeeper.In primary education earned third place in a biology contest in Hungary1978 — Bachelor of Science degree in biology, University of Szeged1982 — Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Szeged1985 — She, her husband and two-year-old daughter left Hungary for the U.S.

Career

1982 — postdoctoral research, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre of Hungary
1985 — her lab lost its funding at BRC1985 — research at Temple University1989 — research at University of Pennsylvania1995 — demoted at University of Pennsylvania because she was not able to get financial grants to continue her work. She said, “One day, this will save lives.”2005 — received a patent with Weissman for non-immunogenic, nucleoside-modified RNA2006 — along with Weissman, founded RNARx, a company that aimed to commercialize non-immunogenic, nucleoside-modified RNA. Licensed the technology to Moderna and BioNTech.2013 — senior vice president at BioNTech2021 — Time magazine named her one of the most influential people of 2021.2023 — won the Nobel Prize in Medicine

Personal life

1980 ­­— married Bela Francia, an engineer1982  — daughter Zsuzsanna, “Susan,” born. Susan won two gold medals in rowing, women’s eight, one at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and another in the 2012 Olympics in London.

  Learn more about Karikó :
www.statnews.com/2021/07/19/katalin-kariko-messenger-rna-vaccine-pioneer
www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html
Researcher Demoted By University Of Pennsylvania Wins Nobel Prize For mRNA Discoveries—And Some Academics Urge Penn To Apologize (forbes.com)
Olympian Susan Francia on how her mother helped develop the COVID-19 vaccines and their American dream – ESPN

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Women and Adversity: Giorgia Meloni, First Woman Prime Minister of Italy

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Women and Adversity:
Giorgia Meloni
First Woman Prime Minister of Italy

At a 2019 Italian Pride rally, Giorgia Meloni shouts, “I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian. No one will take that away from me.” The declaration went viral and was included in a dance music track, but the woman became known for her determination to achieve her far-right goals.

She lost her race for mayor of Rome in 2016, but her Brothers of Italy party won the September  25, 2022 election. She was appointed Prime Minister of Italy and sworn in October 22, 2022. Her ideology is far-right and has been since she became involved with the political scene as a teen.

Bio

 

Born January 15, 1977 in RomeHigh School diploma from Amerigo Vespucci Institute, Rome, in 1996.Was a nanny and waitress and bartender to contribute money to her mother and sister after her father, a tax advisor, went to work in the Canary Islands and never returned to Rome.As a bartender at the popular Piper nightclub in Rome, she says, “‘I didn’t learn about life by working in parliament, I learned what I know from behind the bar counter.”She speaks English, Spanish, French and her native Italian.

  Political career

Her father was associated with the neo-fascist party, Italian Social Movement, and Giorgia was intrigued by it and by government.1992 – Joined Young National Alliance, the youth wing of the Italian Social Movement. She was 15.1998- 2002 – Elected as a councillor of the Province of Rome, a municipal position2006 – Elected to Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament, as a member of the National Alliance and became its youngest vice president ever2006 – Began working as a journalist2008-2011 – Appointed Italian Minister of Youth2012 – Cofounded the Brothers of Italy party2014 – Became president of the Brothers of Italy; was defeated in her run for the European Parliament2016 – Lost her bid for mayor of Rome2020 – President of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party2022 – Brothers of Italy party won the majority election September 25. October 22, Meloni was appointed Prime Minister.

  Political views

Far-rightPro family but isn’t married to her partnerIn a speech she gave in June 2022 to Spain’s Vox party, speaking Spanish, she said, “Yes to the natural family, no to the LGBT lobby, yes to sexual identity, no to gender ideology… no to Islamist violence, yes to secure borders, no to mass migration… no to big international finance… no to the bureaucrats of Brussels!”She doesn’t speak. She shouts.The internet has dozens of articles about Meloni and her ideology.

  Personal life

Not married to her partner Andrea Giambruno. He is a journalist for Mediaset.Their daughter, Ginevra, is six.

 Learn more about Meloni:
Who is Giorgia Meloni? The rise to power of Italy’s new far-right PM – BBC News
www.cnn.com/2022/10/22/europe/giorgia-meloni-italy-new-prime-minister-intl-cmd/index.html
Giorgia Meloni: A brief biography of Giorgia Meloni, who is slated to become Italy’s first female Prime Minister by Ilaria DeRose  

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