Vital Voices, which was co-founded in 1999 by two former U.S. secretaries of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Madeleine K. Albright, along with Melanne Verveer, the first U.S. ambassador for global women's issues, is "the gold standard for fostering the work of courageous women leaders over the world," said Ms. Brown, who sits on its board.
The producer's devotion to fostering the work of serious directors emerges from his overall identity as a man of aesthetic refinement and artistic commitment; his public and private lives are one (which may be why, when his business is about to collapse, so does he — not merely his business but his self-image is menaced).
DeCarava's response was to become the founding chairman of the Kamoinge Workshop (its title borrowing the Kikuyu word for "collective effort"), which fostered the work of many young black photographers, including Beuford Smith.
By Macy Halford September 8, 2008 Robert Giroux, an editor and a partner of the publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux who fostered the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and Bernard Malamud, died Friday, at the age of ninety-four.
As a young and influential script editor at the BBC in the 1950s, she fostered the work of many writers including Harold Pinter and, perhaps most importantly, Samuel Beckett, who became her personal and intellectual partner for more than 30 years.
I've long felt that one of the reasons for the ambient nostalgia for classic Hollywood movies — not merely the long-overdue recognition that the studios harbored and, at times, even fostered the work of great artists but the prevalent critical fascination with all that emerges from the high-studio era — is the sense of scale.
But one reason it is so surprising to see cruising being taken seriously in theater, gallery art and literature (domains which, no matter how much they may seem to foster the work of gay men, have their gates kept by straight people) is that a fear of possible cruising has been a driving force in American cultural politics.
When government stipends are given, they should foster the work of caring and caregiving, be it for humans or for nature's life-support systems, in the household and community economy - investments that new metrics show have a huge payoff.
Needless to say, Mr. Sherman plays everything on this important recording incisively, vibrantly, beautifully and with an authority that comes in part from having fostered the works' creation.
No longer concentrating on the works of just gay men, Left Coast aims to foster the works of all writers interested in producing the best queer-themed works possible.
When it became a huge hit, they were full of regret!" Although there were personal reasons for addressing the lack of diversity in television, Lee is particularly passionate about senior executives fostering the right working culture.
