HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON BRIEFING MATERIALS
THURSDAY APRIL 23, 2015
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON BRIEFING MATERIALS
THURSDAY APRIL 23, 2015
Final Schedule ...... 3
Daily Digest of Other Candidate Activity ...... 7
Briefing Memo – Video Taping ...... 9
1 – Video Script: Reach Out and Read ...... 11
2 – Video Script: CUNY Macaulay Honors College ...... 13 3 – Video Script: National Campaign to Prevent
Teen Pregnancy ...... 14 4 – Video Script: South Carolina Democratic Party
Convention ...... 15
Briefing Memo – Remarks at the 2015 Women in the World Summit ...... 16
1 – Biographies ...... 19
2 – List of Green Room Guests ...... 20 3 – Summit Agenda – Thursday ...... 21 4 – Remarks ...... 26
Briefing Memo – Presentation to Melanne Verveer at the 6th
Annual DVF Awards ...... 27
1 – Biographies ...... 32 2 – Remarks ...... 38
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SCHEDULE FOR SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015 FINAL CHAPPAQUA, NY/NEW YORK, NY/CHAPPAQUA, NY LONA VALMORO SENIOR ADVISER CELL (202) 365-2934
ALEX HORNBROOK DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING & ADVANCE CELL (617) 694-0661
MAIA JOHNSON SCHEDULING DESK CELL (415) 816-3473 PREV RON Chappaqua, NY
Time Tbd DEPART Private Residence En route NYC [drive time: Tbd]
10:55 am ARRIVE IAC Offices
11:00 am PRIVATE MEETING 2:00 pm 6th Floor Conference Room IAC Offices 555 West 18th Street at the Westside Highway New York, NY 10011 Contact: Victoria Cagliero, Lyndsay Harris, and Patrick Shae, [email protected], Office 212-314-7333 CLOSED PRESS
2:15 pm DEPART IAC Offices En route HRC Personal Office [drive time: 20 minutes]
2:35 pm ARRIVE HRC Personal Office
2:45 pm VIDEO TAPINGS 2:50 pm HRC Personal Office Staff: Sierra Lindsay, [email protected], Cell 917-609-0783
- South Carolina JJ Dinner
- Tribute to Sarah Brown, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
- Scholastic's Reach Out and Read 15th Anniversary Gala Celebration
- CUNY Macaulay Honors College 10th Anniversary Celebration
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SCHEDULE FOR SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015
3:00 pm OFFICE TIME/PRIVATE MEETINGS 5:00 pm Personal Office
5:05 pm DEPART HRC Personal Office En route Lincoln Center [drive time: 20 minutes]
5:25 pm ARRIVE Women in the World
Greeter: Tina Brown
5:40 pm REMARKS AT THE 2015 WOMEN IN THE WORLD SUMMIT 6:20 pm David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center 20 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY 10023 Contact: Kara Simonetti, Cell 917-804-6379, [email protected] Advance: Jaclyn Rothenberg, [email protected], Cell 404-433-0819 OPEN PRESS
Note: Approximately 2,500 people attending. Business attire.
- Upon arrival, HRC proceeds to backstage area/green room for brief photos (1-2 clicks total).
- Tina Brown gives brief remarks and introduces Beatrice Biira.
- Beatrice Biira, Community Engagement Coordinator of Heifer International, gives remarks and introduces HRC.
- HRC proceeds onto the stage and delivers remarks (20-25 minutes in length) from the podium with a teleprompter.
- Following remarks, HRC remains on stage for a brief photo with Tina and Beatrice.
- HRC takes a group photo with the Girls Choir on stage (1 click).
- HRC proceeds off stage and departs.
6:30 pm PERSONAL TIME 8:15 pm Location: Tbd
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SCHEDULE FOR SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015
8:35 pm ARRIVE United Nations
8:40 pm PRESENTATION TO MELANNE VERVEER AT THE 6th ANNUAL 9:20 pm DVF AWARDS 4th Floor United Nations New York, NY 10017 Contact: Luisella Meloni, [email protected], Cell 917-689-9015 Advance: Chris Falvo, [email protected], Cell 917-584-4309 Call Time: 8:00pm OPEN PRESS (including press invited as guests)
Note: Approximately 350 people attending. Business attire.
- Upon arrival, HRC proceeds to the Private Room 6 for group photo (1 click) with awardees and presenters.
- VOG begins the program in the Delegates Dining Room and introduces the musical guest, Christine and the Queens.
- Christine and the Queens perform.
- Tina Brown gives opening remarks and introduces Diane von Furstenberg.
- Diane von Furstenberg speaks and introduces HRC.
- HRC proceeds onto the stage and gives remarks (3-4 minutes in length) from the podium with a teleprompter.
- At the conclusion of remarks, HRC invites Melanne Verveer to the stage to receive the Lifetime Leadership Award.
- HRC has the option to remain on stage for Melanne’s remarks.
- HRC proceeds off stage and departs.
9:30 pm DEPART United Nations En route Private Residence [drive time: 50 minutes]
10:20 pm ARRIVE Private Residence
HRC RON Chappaqua, NY WJC RON Chappaqua, NY
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SCHEDULE FOR SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2015 Weather: Chappaqua, NY: Mostly cloudy, 53/33. New York, NY: Mostly cloudy, 55/38.
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DAILY DIGEST OF OTHER CANDIDATE ACTIVITY
April 22, 2015
Democrats
Joe Biden Tweeted “Let’s act to ensure that the world we leave behind for our kids & grandkids is better than how we found it. #EarthDay.”
Lincoln Chafee Interview ran in print with the Brown Daily Herald.
Martin O’Malley Tweeted “Opposing bad trade deals like TPP is just common sense. Let’s make our voices heard” and included link to Bad Trade Deals video from yesterday. Reported that he will travel to NH on May 13.
Bernie Sanders Stalled action on TPP by using an procedural maneuver in the Senate Finance Committee. He objected to a rule that allows committees to meet during legislative sessions and in doing so he prevented the Finance Committee from addressing the trade bill until 4pm. That is significant because Senate Democrats have dozens of amendments prepared for the bill, which will take several hours to address in committee.
Jim Webb No update.
Republicans
Declared
Marco Rubio No update.
Rand Paul Skipped Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on State Department funding, CNN reported instead he was on a radio program and attacked YOU on 7
Benghazi. Will attend The Constitution Project’s 8 thAnnual Constitutional Champions Gala in Washington, D.C.
Ted Cruz No update.
Undeclared
Jeb Bush Posted a piece on Medium.com attacking YOU entitled “Hillary Clinton’s Politically Motivated Flip Flop on TPP Is Wrong.”
Chris Christie Will be on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Scott Walker Will attend a ground breaking ceremony of an expansion at Werner Electric Supply Co. in Neenah, WI.
Carly Fiorina Reported today that she will announce her presidential bid online on May 4. Attended Westside Conservative Club Breakfast in Urbandale, IA. Joined Simon Conway’s Radio Show. Signed advance copies of her book in Cedar Rapids, IA. Spoke to Iowa Women Lead Change in Cedar Rapids, IA.
Rick Perry Will speak at the Microsoft Global Energy Forum in Houston, TX.
Mike Pence Will attend the Governor’s Century and Half Century Business Awards in Indianapolis, IN.
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MEMORANDUM FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON Date: Thursday, April 23, 2015 Time: 2:45 pm – 2:50 pm Location: Personal Office New York, NY From: Robert Russo, Dan Schwerin, Lauren Peterson, Patti Miller, Ann O’Leary Re: Video Taping
I. PURPOSE
YOU are recording four videos.
II. PARTICIPANTS
YOU Sierra Lindsay/Film Crew
III. PRESS PLAN
This taping session is CLOSED PRESS.
IV. BACKGROUND
YOU are recording four videos:
1. Reach Out and Read
YOU are recording a video greeting for Reach Out and Read of Greater New York’s Annual Benefit to celebrate their 15 years of service. This group prepares New York’s youngest and most vulnerable children to succeed in school by partnering with doctors to prescribe books and encourage families to read together. Reach Out and Read of Greater New York began 15 years ago with 40 program sites and today, they operate at over 200 hospitals, community health centers, and pediatric practices through all 5 boroughs of NYC, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley. This annual gathering will take place on June 1st in New York City, and will draw together Reach Out and Read board and staff members, supporters, partners, local educators, and children’s publishers.
9 2. CUNY Macaulay Honors College
YOU are recording a greeting to celebrate CUNY Macaulay Honors College’s 15th Anniversary. YOU delivered the commencement address for their first graduating class on May 31, 2005. YOUR video greeting will be shown at this year’s commencement ceremony on June 2nd. Founded in 2001, Macaulay Honors College offers academically gifted students a rigorous undergraduate education, integrating the vast resources of the City University with New York's cultural, scientific, and business communities.
3. National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
YOU are recording a video tribute to Sarah Brown. On May 15th at the Phillips Collection in Washington, about 130 people will gather to honor Sarah Brown for her extraordinary career and achievements as CEO of National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Governor Tom Kean – the first and current Board Chair of the Campaign – will emcee the evening. The festivities will include remarks from Jody Miller, who served in the Clinton White House, and is a member of the Campaign’s Board, Judy Woodruff from PBS, former HHS Undersecretary Howard Koh, and others. Those in the audience will include family, funders, and longtime friends of Sarah and The National Campaign.
4. South Carolina Democratic Party Convention
YOU are recording a video greeting to the South Carolina Democratic Party’s Convention to be held on Saturday April 25th in Columbia, South Carolina. Speakers will include Senator Bernie Sanders, Governor Terry McAuliffe, former Governor Lincoln Chafee, former Governor Martin O’Malley, and Mudcat Sanders on behalf of former Senator Jim Webb. YOUR video will play at the end of Governor McAuliffe’s remarks and will be seen by all South Carolina Democratic Party Delegates.
Attachments: 1 – Video Script: Reach Out and Read 2 – Video Script: CUNY Macaulay Honors College 3 – Video Script: National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy 4 – Video Script: South Carolina Democratic Party Convention
10 HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON VIDEO GREETING FOR REACH OUT AND READ OF GREATER NEW YORK’s 15TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION TO BE RECORDED APRIL 23, 2015
Good evening. I’m delighted to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Reach Out and Read of Greater New York and to join in honoring the incredible work this organization is doing—both here and across the country.
We all know how wonderful it is when a child sits on your lap as you read a favorite bedtime story, witnessing a face light up as you turn each page together to find out what happens next. And it’s not just kids’ faces that light up, it’s their brains too. Scientists can literally watch the synapses and neurons firing away when parents read and talk to their children from the earliest days. It helps them learn words, build vocabulary, and develop their brains.
Unfortunately, too many of our youngest kids aren’t getting the support they need to grow and thrive – especially in families who have to work harder than ever just to get by. Economic pressures on parents translate to less time reading, talking, and singing with their children. And by the age of 4, children in lower-income families have heard 30 million fewer words than their higher-income peers. Because they hear fewer words, they learn fewer words. Experts call this the “word gap” and it leads to an “achievement gap.”
That’s why I launched Too Small to Fail almost two years ago – to give parents the tools and information they need to talk, read, and sing more with their kids – giving them the best possible start in school and in life.
I am particularly proud that Reach Out and Read is one of Too Small to Fail’s partners, working to distribute 500,000 books from Scholastic to families who need them most through their sites across the country. Just recently, New York City announced its new word gap campaign, Talk to Your Baby, which will distribute books and Too Small to Fail’s Sesame Street Family Resource Guide through Reach Out and Read clinics and child care facilities in Brownsville and the South Bronx.
Reach Out and Read’s evidence-based model works. Research shows that your families read together more often, and their children enter kindergarten with larger
11 vocabularies and stronger language skills than those who did not participate in the program.
To the staff, board, and volunteers here tonight, I applaud you. Thank you for your steadfast commitment to early literacy and school readiness, and for everything you do everyday to help ensure that all children have the opportunity to reach their God-given potential. Here’s to the next 15 years of success!
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12 HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON VIDEO GREETING TO CUNY MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT TO BE RECORDED APRIL 23, 2015
Hello everyone! I am so delighted to join you on this special day and to celebrate this milestone achievement in your lives.
Ten years ago I was honored to address the first-ever graduating class of Macaulay [Muh-call-ee] Honors College. At that time, Macaulay [Muh-call-ee] was a new institution that spoke to the promise of a world-class public education for New York City’s highest achieving students. Ten years later, your ranks have more than doubled and that promise has been fulfilled.
Each of you should be proud of all your accomplishments, both personal and academic. The scholarship, experiences, and programs at Macaulay [Muh-call-ee] have provided you an unparalleled opportunity and preparation to seize the future.
As Macaulay [Muh-call-ee] graduates, you reflect the city in which you live and diversity of the CUNY student body. Many of you are children of immigrants, graduates of public high schools, and the first in your families to attend college. Just as New York is an exceptional city, you have proven yourselves to be exceptional students and citizens. You have volunteered with community organizations, undertaken serious field research, and studied abroad. You are entrepreneurs and innovators. And most importantly, you are daughters and sons of proud parents and families.
It is a joy to be able to celebrate with you what the Macaulay [Muh-call-ee] community has been able to do over this past decade. Today you join 2,700 alumni in heeding the call to make the world a better place. In the years ahead, you will build careers in public service, education, finance, medicine, and the arts. My charge to you is to use your extraordinary talents to never stop trying solve the challenges facing New York City, our nation, and our world.
Congratulations, my friends, and Godspeed!
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13 HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON VIDEO TRIBUTE TO SARAH BROWN, THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT TEEN AND UNPLANNED PREGNANCY TO BE RECORDED APRIL 23, 2015
Good evening, everyone. While I regret that I cannot be with in Washington tonight, I am so delighted to join in celebrating and thanking Sarah Brown for her many years of dedication and service to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
Thanks in large part to Sarah’s smart and steady leadership, one of our nation’s great success stories of the past two decades has been the truly extraordinary declines in teen pregnancy. As you know, the numbers are positively breathtaking: teen pregnancy has plummeted 52 percent since peaking in the early 1990s. There has been significant progress in all 50 states. And, importantly, huge declines among all racial and ethnic groups. These declines translate into real life opportunities for young women and young men who can continue on a forward- moving path toward higher education and careers before undertaking the responsibilities of parenting.
I remember well in 1995 when my husband challenged parents and leaders across the country to create a National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. And fondly recall working closely with Sarah, Isabel Sawhill, and Governor Tom Kean as they launched it. None of us could have imagined how impressive the progress would be. But as Sarah herself is no doubt telling you tonight, our nation’s work in helping young people avoid unplanned pregnancy and achieve their goals for the future remains unfinished. It is still the case that roughly one in four teens get pregnant by age 20. That’s why The National Campaign is still tackling this issue in innovative ways, including starting an important conversation about the positive role that contraception plays in shaping women’s lives and destinies.
The importance of this work has been clear to Sarah from the start: by helping teens and young adults delay early and unplanned pregnancy, we can improve the overall wellbeing of society. And so I applaud you, Sarah, for all you have done in your remarkable career to help improve the life prospects of countless teens, children, and families nationwide. You have my very best wishes as you switch gears to assume full-time grandmother duties. Congratulations, my friend.
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14 HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON REMARKS TO THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S DELEGATE CONVENTION TO BE RECORDED APRIL 23, 2015
Hello, South Carolina Democrats! To your chair, Jaime Harrison; Party officers, elected officials, friends, and delegates: Thank you.
Thank you for organizing precincts, making calls, knocking on doors, and registering voters. Thank you for the hours you’ve spent and the blocks you’ve walked on behalf of the South Carolina Democratic Party.
I know this work is challenging. But you don’t do it because it’s easy. You do it because you care. You care about quality education from pre-K through college. You care about seniors, who shouldn’t have to choose between rent and medication. You care that everyone is treated with respect by law enforcement and no politician ever takes your vote for granted. You care about creating good jobs and paying workers fairly. And you’re determined to do something about it.
We don’t yet know who the Republican nominee for president will be. But we do know that they’ll be offering the same economic agenda that has failed American families again and again – a throwback to the past instead of a vision for the future.
There are four big fights we have to take on and win. We have to build the economy of tomorrow, not yesterday. We have to strengthen families and communities. We have to fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable money out of it. And we have to protect our country from the threats we’re facing today and the ones over the horizon.
From the Lowcoutry to the Upstate, the Pee-Dee region through the Midlands; South Carolinians need a champion. And I want to be that champion.
I hope you’ll go to hillaryclinton dot com slash South Carolina and sign up to volunteer and get involved. We’ve got a great team on the ground who are eager to work with you and there is so much we can do together to help all Americans build better lives for themselves and for their families. So thank you for your commitment and for your great work. I look forward to seeing you in person soon.
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15 MEMORANDUM FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON Date: Thursday, April 23, 2015 Time: 5:25 pm – 6:20 pm Location: David Koch Theater New York, NY From: Robert Russo, Dan Schwerin Re: Remarks at the 2015 Women in the World
I. PURPOSE
YOU are delivering the keynote address at the 6th annual Women in the World Summit.
II. PARTICIPANTS
YOU Tina Brown, Founder, Women in the World; Chief Executive Officer, Tina Brown Live Media Beatrice Biira, Community Engagement Coordinator, Heifer International (Introducer) 2,500 attendees in the audience
III. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
5:25 pm YOU arrive at the David Koch Theater and proceed to the backstage area/green room for greet and photo with guests (see list in the attachments)
5:35 pm YOU meet Beatrice Biira backstage
5:38 pm Video plays, Biira enters stage and gives remarks introducing YOU
5:40 pm YOU enter stage and deliver remarks from a podium with a teleprompter (20-25 minutes)
6:00 pm YOU conclude remarks
Tina Brown joins YOU on stage for closing remarks
16 YOU pose for photos with Tina and Biira
6:05 pm YOU pose for a photo with the Girls Choir, then exit the stage and depart
IV. PRESS PLAN
This event is OPEN PRESS.
V. BACKGROUND
Attire: Business
Women in the World
This is the sixth annual Women in the World Summit. YOU have participated in all five prior summits.
Partnering with Diane von Furstenberg, Vital Voices and the UN Foundation, The Daily Beast brought some of the world's most inspiring female leaders together at the Hudson Theatre in New York City for the first annual Women in the World Summit in 2010. The mission of the three-day summit was to focus on the global challenges facing women, from equal rights and education, to human slavery, literacy and the power of the media and technology to effect change in women's lives. Since then, Women in the World has become a premiere annual conference for women – and for the men who champion them – by presenting vivid journalistic narratives, stirring videos, and provocative discussions.
Past participants have included Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie, Oprah Winfrey, Christine Lagarde, Madeleine K. Albright, President Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Sheryl Sandberg, Sunitha Krishnan, Diane Von Furstenberg, Melinda Gates, Robi Damelin, Nobel Peace Prize laureates Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman, Dalia Ziada, HRH Queen Rania of Jordan, Nancy Pelosi, Alaa Murabit, Gloria Steinem, Zainab Salbi, Christiane Amanpour, Tzipi Livni, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, and Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe.
Women in the World expanded outside of the U.S. for the first time in 2012, with a forum held in São Paulo, Brazil; 2014 inaugurated salons and forums in other US cities, including Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, and San Antonio.
17 In 2015, Women in the World formed a joint venture with The New York Times to partner on further expansion, including events in Dubai, London, and New Delhi— as well as creation of a new digital home for the brand on nytimes.com. While Women in the World retains editorial control of its content, The New York Times is a partner in the business.
Women in the World Foundation
In 2011, a separately funded, nonprofit Women in the World Foundation was created to shine a light on the work of its honorees and other worthwhile nonprofits. Over the next two years, the foundation donated $1.1 million, including ten Women of Impact grants of $25,000 each. In 2013, the foundation gave a $650,000 grant to Vital Voices, thereby turning its nonprofit initiatives over to the organization. Vital Voices continues to administer the Women of Impact awards, and also receives a portion of the proceeds from the Women in the World Summit each year.
Attachments: 1 – Biographies 2 – List of Green Room Guests 3 – Summit Agenda – Thursday 4 – Remarks
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Tina Brown Founder, Women in the World Chief Executive Officer, Tina Brown Live Media
Tina Brown is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and currently founder and CEO of Tina Brown Live Media. She launched Women in the World in 2009 as part of The Daily Beast, the digital news site she founded in 2008. Formerly editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Talk, and Newsweek, she was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to journalism by Queen Elizabeth in 2000. She also authored the best-selling 2007 biography of the Princess of Wales, The Diana Chronicles. She is married to editor, publisher, and historian Sir Harold Evans and lives in New York City.
Beatrice Biira Community Engagement Coordinator Heifer Project International
Page McBrier’s New York Times best-selling book, Beatrice’s Goat (2004), told of Beatrice Biira’s inspiring journey out of poverty in Uganda as a beneficiary of Heifer Project International. She later shared her story on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, and 60 Minutes, as well as on a national speaking tour. Before joining Heifer International in March 2012, Beatrice worked as program associate for Millennium Promise and Connect To Learn, a global initiative that focused on secondary education worldwide, with an emphasis on girls from impoverished families. She also interned for YOUR Senate office and at the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative. Beatrice has a master’s in public service from the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas, and a BA in International Development and Social Change from Connecticut College.
19 LIST OF GREEN ROOM GUESTS
Mauria Aspell and guests:
o Don Porr [POOR] son of Mauria Aspell – from Hot Springs AR; Small business owner, Diamond Services o Susannah Feux Porr (wife of Don - from Houston TX); non profit executive director. o Linda Feux [FEEūX] mother of Susannah; retired small business owner o Jessica Harris – sister of Susannah and daughter of Linda Feux. Business Operations Consultant in Dallas TX o Brenda Tally – Dance instructor from Victoria TX; friend of Don and Susannah o Suzanne Bowles [BOWLS] – head of major gifts for Tostan (Molly Melching's organization out of Senegal); based out of D.C.; friend of Don and Susannah o Katie Feuille [FUEL] – childhood friend of Susannah and Jessica; small business owner in El Paso TX o Irma Cornejo [KOR-NAY-HO] childhood friend of Susannah and Jessica; small business owner in Dallas TX o Lisa Wheeler – friend of Don and Susannah; major supporter of Tostan; lives in NYC
Liz Robbins
Barkha Dutt
20 SUMMIT AGENDA – THURSDAY
THURSDAY, APRIL 23
9:00 AM: MORNING PROGRAMMING BEGINS
9:05 AM: GONE GIRLS One year after #Bring Back Our Girls — was it just a hashtag? And will the new Nigerian government succeed in finding them? Obiageli Ezekwesili, Co-Founder, Bring Back Our Girls Alexis Okeowo, Writer, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker John Prendergast, Founding Director, The Enough Project Moderated by Lesley Stahl, Correspondent, 60 Minutes
9:35 AM: EVERYONE’S PROBLEM Women want to be there for their kids, their aging parents and their husbands but the American workplace won’t let them. Betty Easley, Military Veteran Spouse, Caregiver Katharine Zaleski, Co-Founder and President, PowerToFly Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Founder, Chairwoman and CEO, Care.com Shelby Ramirez Martinez, Advocate, 9to5 Moderated by Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama, Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls
10:05 AM: BANISHING THE DEVIL Long before #bringbackourgirls swept the Internet, a Ugandan nun was working to save thousands of young women who survived enslavement under Joseph Kony and Ugandan rebels. Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, Director - St. Monica's Girls Tailoring Centre, Uganda Interviewed by Tina Brown, Founder, Women in the World and CEO, Tina Brown Live Media
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10:25 AM: WHERE DO YOU GO WHEN YOUR WORLD DISAPPEARS There will soon be a surge in “climate refugees.” Mary Robinson, 7th President of Ireland; President and Founder, Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice Pelenise Alofa, National Coordinator, Kiribati Climate Action Network Patricia Cochran, Executive Director, Alaska Native Science Commission Moderated by Juju Chang, Co-Anchor, ABC News Nightline
11:20 AM: MOTHER OF INVENTION Presented by Toyota A conversation with Ting Shih, the founder of ClickMedix, and Dermatologist Dr. Achiamah Osei-Tutu, on how mobile technology is transforming healthcare and saving lives around the world with just a click of a button. Ting Shih, CEO and Founder, ClickMedix Dr. Achiamah Osei-Tutu, Dermatologist, Osei Tutu Dermatology Moderated by Poppy Harlow, CNN Anchor and Correspondent
11:30 AM: THE DEBATE THAT’S SHAKING INDIA INTRODUCED BY: Freida Pinto, Actress and Activist Who's winning the fight against sexual violence and gender inequality? A conversation with Sunitha Krishnan, the activist leading the #ShametheRapist campaign, filmmaker Leslee Udwin (“India's Daughter”), and journalist and editor Barkha Dutt, on the politics of shame and stigma in India. Sunitha Krishnan, Founder, Prajwala Barkha Dutt, Consulting Editor, NDTV Leslee Udwin, Director/Producer, India's Daughter; CEO, Assassin Films Moderated by Norah O’Donnell, Co-Host, CBS This Morning
12:05 PM: HELEN MIRREN RULES! An intimate conversation with Helen Mirren, the legendary actress who is now garnering knockout reviews on Broadway in The Audience, her third role as an English queen. Helen Mirren, Actress Interviewed by Tina Brown, Founder, Women in the World and CEO, Tina Brown Live Media
22 12:30 PM: THE SIEGE ON THE MOUNTAIN While up to 50,000 Yazidi refugees were besieged on Mt. Sinjar, thousands of girls were sold by ISIS. The siege is over, but they remain missing. Vian Dakheel Saeed, Yazidi Member of Iraqi Parliament Dr. Delan Dakheel Saeed, Doctor, Charity worker, who works with girls who were taken by ISIS Ambassador Melanne Verveer, Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security Alissa Johannsen Rubin, Paris Bureau Chief, The New York Times Moderated by Deborah Roberts, ABC News Network Correspondent
1:00 PM: LUNCH (BUFFET RECEPTION ON MEZZANINE) WELCOME REMARKS INTRODUCTION BY: Meredith Kopit Levien, EVP, Advertising, The New York Times Shelley Zalis, CEO, Ipsos OTX; Founder, The Ipsos Girls' Lounge
2:20 PM: WEARABLE, SUSTAINABLE A high-profile CEO on the challenge of making sustainability part of the bottom line. Federica Marchionni, CEO, Lands’ End Interviewed by Jill Bernstein, Editorial Director, Fast Company
2:30 PM: MY AUNT, MY HERO SALWA Rima Bugaighis, Libyan Lawyer and Activist
2:37 PM: THE LADYKILLER Heart disease is the number one killer of women – more than all cancers combined. One in three women will die of heart disease. Speaking about the inequity in heart disease research for women is singer Barbra Streisand, along with Dr. Holly Andersen. Barbra Streisand, Co-Founder, Women’s Heart Alliance Dr. Holly Andersen, Attending Cardiologist and Director of Education and Outreach, Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College Vanessa Noel, CEO & Designer of Luxury women’s shoes, Hotelier Moderated by Dr. Jennifer Ashton, ABC News Senior Medical Contributor, Founder of Hygeia Gynecology
23 3:10 PM: HERE COMES THE SUN How a growing army of Solar Grandmothers - trained by the legendary Bunker Roy, and a young winner of the Google Impact Challenge are harnessing the sun to bring light, water and a new sense of possibility to communities around the world. Sanjit “Bunker” Roy, Founder, Barefoot College; Indian Social Activist and Educator Sanchaita Gajapati Raju, Managing Trustee and Founder, SANA Moderated by Alyse Nelson, President and CEO, Vital Voices Global Partnership
3:35 PM: WHY IS MATERNAL MORTALITY ON THE RISE IN THE U.S.? Presented by Merck Maternal mortality is on the rise in the U.S., while it’s on the decline in all other industrialized nations. In some parts of the U.S., maternal death rates are higher than sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Priya Agrawal, Executive Director of Merck for Mothers, and the incredible Mississippi nurse Elise Turner, will discuss this human rights crisis and identify what women in America need to know in order to decrease their risk of pregnancy-related complications. Dr. Priya Agrawal, Executive Director, Merck for Mothers Elise J. Turner, Associate Professor, Belhaven University Monica Raye Simpson, Executive Director, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective Moderated by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Author, Ashley's War; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
4:30 PM: MANHATTAN GIRLS CHORUS
4:35 PM: TAMING THE TROLLS How women are fighting back and seeking legal recourse against online harassment and abuse. Ashley Judd, Actress, Activist, Humanitarian Anita Sarkeesian, Founder and Executive Director, Feminist Frequency Emily Bazelon, Staff Writer, New York Times Magazine Kamala D. Harris, California Attorney General Moderated by Katie Couric, Yahoo Global News Anchor
24 5:05 PM: MOTHER OF INVENTION Presented by Toyota How one woman found a way to transform a bus into showers on wheels, and hopes to empower and bring dignity to homeless people around the country, one shower at a time. Doniece Sandoval, Founder, Lava Mae Inocente Izucar, Artist, Homeless Advocate, Star of Oscar-winning documentary “Inocente” Moderated by Alex Witt, Anchor, MSNBC's "Weekends with Alex Witt," NBC News Correspondent
5:15PM THE GREAT ESCAPE Yeonmi Park’s unimaginably dangerous trek to escape North Korea. Yeonmi Park, 21-year-old defector, North Korean Human Rights Activist Hannah Song, President and CEO, LINK (Liberty In North Korea) Moderated by Savannah Guthrie, Co-anchor, The Today Show
5:40 KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY SECRETARY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON INTRODUCED BY: Beatrice Biira, Community Engagement Coordinator at Heifer International Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, Former U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Senator and First Lady
TINA BROWN: A CLOSE FOR THE DAY Founder, Women in the World and CEO, Tina Brown Live Media
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26 MEMORANDUM FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON Date: Thursday, April 23, 2014 Time: 8:35 pm – 9:30 pm Location: United Nations New York, NY From: Robert Russo, Dan Schwerin Re: Presentation to Melanne Verveer at the 6th Annual DVF Awards
I. PURPOSE
YOU are presenting Melanne Verveer with a Lifetime Leadership Award at the 6th Annual DVF Awards.
II. PARTICIPANTS
YOU Diane von Furstenberg Tina Brown Melanne Verveer (Lifetime Leadership Award) Naomi Campbell, Model (Presenter) Adi Tafuna’I (Vital Voices Award) Dakota Fanning, Actor (Presenter) Samar Minallah Khan (Vital Voices Award) Gabby Giffords (Inspiration Award) Becky Straw and Jody Landers (People’s Voice Award) Héloïse Letissier aka “Christine and the Queens,” Singer (Musical Guest) Approximately 350-400 attendees
III. SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
8:35 pm YOU arrive at the UN and proceed to Private Room 6
8:40 pm YOU join the Awardees and Presenters for a group photo (annual class photo)
8:45 pm YOU proceed to YOUR seat side-stage with the Awardees and Presenters
27 8:50 pm Musical performance by Christine and the Queens (VOG introduction)
9:00 pm Tina Brown welcomes guests and introduces Diane von Furstenberg
9:04 pm Diane von Furstenberg speaks and introduces YOU
9:12 pm YOU come to the stage, deliver remarks (3-4 minutes) from a podium with a teleprompter, and present the Lifetime Leadership Award to Melanne
Note: the award will be on a table next to the podium
YOU pause for a photo with Melanne, then have the option to remain on stage for her remarks
9:17 pm Melanne accepts award and delivers remarks (8-10 minutes)
9:30 pm YOU depart
IV. PRESS PLAN
This event is OPEN PRESS.
V. BACKGROUND
Attire: Business
DVF Awards
The DVF Awards were created in 2010 by Diane von Furstenberg and The Diller- von Furstenberg Family Foundation to recognize and support women who are using their resources, commitment, and visibility to transform the lives of other women. Honorees are women who have had the courage to fight, the power to survive, and the leadership to inspire. Each receives $50k in support of the organization with which they are affiliated from The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation so that they may further their work.
Each year, five awards are given to women who have demonstrated leadership, strength, and courage in their commitment to women’s causes:
28 Two awards to women within Vital Voices’ Global Leadership Network who are advancing the social, economic, and political position of women in their countries The People’s Voice Award is chosen by popular vote from a select number of nominees presented on dvfawards.com. The public is invited to vote online and the award is granted to the women who receives the most votes. The Inspiration Award is given to a woman who has demonstrated extraordinary strength and courage in the face of adversity, and is now using her experience and influence to effect positive change The Lifetime Leadership Award is given to an individual who has dedicated her entire life and body of work to instilling in other women the courage to fight, the power to survive, and the leadership to inspire
YOU received the Lifetime Leadership Award in 2011.
Past Awardees
Vital Voices People’s Voice Inspiration Lifetime Awards Award Award Leadership Award Sadiqua Basiri Katherine Chon, N/A Ingrid
Saleem Polaris Project Betancourt (Afghanistan); 2010 Danielle St. Lot (Haiti)
Kakenya Ntaiya Taryn Davis Elizabeth Smart YOU (Kenya); Sohini
2011 Chakraborty (India) ChouChou Layli Miller- Jaycee Dugard Oprah Winfrey Namegabe (Congo); Muri, The Tahirih
2012 Panmela Castro Justice Center (Brazil)
Sunitha Krishnan; Tammy Tibbetts Natalia Robin Roberts Andeisha Farid Vodianova
2013
Kah Walla; Liron Veronika Scott Alicia Keys Gloria Steinem Peleg-Hadomi and
2014 Noha Khatieb
29 This Year’s Awardees
Lifetime Leadership Award: Melanne Verveer Inspiration Award: Gabby Giffords Vital Voices: Adi Tafuna’I (Samoa) Vital Voices: Samar Minallah Khan (Pakistan) People’s Voice Award: Becky Straw and Jody Landers
Attachments: 1 – Biographies 2 – Remarks
30 BIOGRAPHIES
Awardees:
Lifetime Leadership Award: Melanne Verveer
In 2009, President Obama nominated Melanne Verveer to be the first ever U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues at the Department of State. Ambassador Verveer spent the past four years working with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to coordinate foreign policy issues and activities relating to the political, economic and social advancement of women, traveling to nearly sixty countries. In such capacity, she worked to mobilize concrete support for women’s political and economic empowerment through public-private partnerships as well by working to fully integrate women’s participation and rights into U.S. foreign policy. President Obama also appointed Verveer to serve as U.S. Representative to the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Today she is the Director of Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace and Security. The Institute seeks to enhance national and global security by documenting the crucial role women play in peace-building and security through research and scholarship and by engaging global leaders from government, civil society and the private sector in conversations on the urgent issues of out times.
Ambassador Verveer is also the founding partner of Seneca Point Global, the global women strategy firm. SPG partners with leading companies and institutions to design, implement and measure integrated strategies that focus on women and girls and drive sustainable results – whether social, economic or both. She is the co-author of the forthcoming book, FAST FORWARD: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose.
Prior to her role at the State Department, Ambassador Verveer served as Chair and Co-CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international NGO she co-founded to invest in emerging women leaders. Prior to Vital Voices, she served as Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady in the Clinton Administration. She was chief assistant to Hillary Clinton in her wide-ranging international activities to advance women’s rights and further social development, democracy and peace-building initiatives. She also led the effort to establish the President’s Interagency Council on Women and was instrumental in the adoption of the
31 Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. Prior to her time in the White House, Ambassador Verveer served in a number of leadership roles in public policy organizations and as congressional staff.
Ambassador Verveer has a B.S. and M.S. from Georgetown University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and the World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development. She has served as the 2013 Humanitas visiting professor at Cambridge University. In 2008, the President of Ukraine awarded her the Order of Princess Olga. She holds several honorary degrees and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the U.S. Secretary of State’s Award for Distinguished Service.
Inspiration Award: Gabby Giffords
Former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords has become known across the country for her resilience in the face of violence, and for her consensus- building leadership in Congress.
Giffords was shot in the head at point blank range at a Congress on Your Corner event in Tucson on January 8, 2011. Stepping down from Congress in January, 2012, Giffords said, “I will return, and we will work together for Arizona and this great country.”
Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, founded Americans for Responsible Solutions as a way to encourage elected officials to stand up for both the 2nd amendment and safer communities by communicating directly with the constituents that elect them. Giffords and Kelly will not let leaders across the country forget that Americans are demanding responsible solutions to this critically important issue.
Giffords, who was first a registered republican, considers herself a moderate democrat. She ran in six elections in Southern Arizona and won each of them. A third generation Arizonan, Giffords has long been a gun owner and believes in the constitutional right of all Americans to safe and responsible gun ownership. For more than ten years, Giffords has dedicated herself to public service. As the youngest woman ever elected to the Arizona State Senate, she represented her community in the Arizona Legislature from 2000-2005, and then in Congress from 2006-2012. Her success was credited to her reliance on the old- fashioned values of kindness, candor and hard, grueling work.
32 In Congress, Giffords represented a diverse area that covers 9,000 square miles including a 114-mile border with Mexico. She quickly became a leading champion of border security, energy independence, and the needs of military families and veterans. Consistently ranked as one of the most centrist legislators in Congress, she is a strong supporter of fiscal responsibility, bipartisanship, and government accountability.
She is married to Mark Kelly, a retired Navy Captain and NASA astronaut. Before being assigned to NASA, Kelly flew 39 carrier-based combat missions in Operation Desert Storm. He was also commander of the final mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Giffords was for several years the only U.S. Representative with an active duty military spouse. She was recognized as the Honorary Military Spouse of the Year for 2011 by Military Spouse magazine.
Giffords holds a Master’s Degree in Regional Planning from Cornell University and a B.A. from Scripps College where she was awarded a William Fulbright Scholarship to study for a year in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Vital Voices: Adi Tafuna’I (Samoa)
To outsiders, Samoa’s lush forests represent tropical paradise. But for many Samoans, the remoteness of their Pacific nation results in a poverty of opportunity. Consequently, many Samoans work abroad and send part of their income home to their families. The unintended negative consequences of this dynamic can be devastating: with women often gone away to work for weeks at a time, young girls became more vulnerable to gender based violence by older men in their family. Visionary entrepreneur Adimaimalaga (Adi) Tafuna’i believes this dynamic can and should change. Globally minded, yet rooted in her community, she works to build sustainable economic opportunities for Samoan women and families, in a way that is good for people, prosperity and the planet. Adi was determined to enable women to earn an income in their local community in order to educate, feed and care for their families. She leverages local resources to connect Samoan women to global markets through a village-based approach to economic development. Adi’s organization, Women in Business, is currently working with 600 families across the Pacific.
33 Vital Voices: Samar Minallah Khan (Pakistan)
Samar Minallah Khan, a Pakistani Pashtun documentary filmmaker, journalist, human rights activist, and anthropologist uses advocacy, documentaries, and other forms of media to open the eyes of civil society, policymakers, and human rights activists to culturally- sanctioned forms of violence. She has tackled issues such as human trafficking, dowry, acid crimes, child domestic labor and forced marriage.
Through Ethnomedia, a non-governmental media initiative she founded, she launched a campaign against swara, wherein girls are given as compensation to end disputes—from murder to property quarrels. As a direct result of her work, swara was made illegal in 20014. But that was not enough. Samar sought to ensure this new law was enforced by working with the Pakistani Supreme Court and launching a nation-wide advocacy campaign.
Whatever the medium, Samar’s stories are human, relatable, and culturally appropriate, produced in regional languages and screened locally to engage all levels of society. Samar thus brings unseen images, untold stories and seldom heard voices to public attention—catalyzing political engagement, challenging the status quo, and irrevocably changing the conversation about women and girls in Pakistan.
People’s Voice Award: Becky Straw and Jody Landers
Becky Straw is Co-Founder and CEO of The Adventure Project, which supports “ventures” that “add” something positive to the world by creating jobs that directly benefit communities in developing countries.
After years working in international aid, consulting for UNICEF and helping to launch charity: water, Becky was burdened with the overwhelming reality of abject poverty. She became determined to empower people with the tools and education to become entrepreneurs and serve their own communities with improved health, decreased hunger, a safer environment and clean water. She joined forces with Jody Landers to launch The Adventure Project with the knowledge that people want the opportunity to thrive - not with a handout, but through dignified work.
34 In four years, with only three full-time employees and a dozen passionate interns, the organization has employed 745 entrepreneurs in India, Haiti, Kenya, and Uganda, which include well mechanics, healthcare workers, farmers and stove masons. Together they serve over one million people each day.
When Jody Landers and her husband adopted their two youngest children from Sierra Leone, the experience opened their eyes, broke their hearts and confirmed the desire to see a world where the adoption of orphans is not necessary.
From a tiny town in Iowa, with her laptop and a lot of passion, Jody helped launch The Adventure Project with a mission of getting likeminded, compassionate people involved. Jody knows there are millions of people just like her - eager to help, if they just knew how. To date, she has helped to rally over 5,000 grassroots supporters, raising over $1.3 million in small donations. Jody is the proud mother to six children and the recipient of the 2008 Hallmark Channel’s Remarkable Woman of the Year Award.
Presenters:
Naomi Campbell Model
Naomi Elaine Campbell is an English model, actress, singer, and author. Recruited at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognizable and in-demand models of the late 1980s and the 1990s, and was one of six models of her generation declared "supermodels" by the fashion industry. Campbell is also involved in charity work for various causes.
Dakota Fanning Actor
Dakota Fanning is an American actress who rose to prominence after her breakthrough performance at age seven in the 2001 film I Am Sam. As a child actress, she went on to appear in high-profile films such as Man on Fire (2004), War of the Worlds (2005) and Charlotte's Web (2006). Fanning then began the transition to more adult roles with Hounddog (2007) and The Secret Life of Bees (2008). Her recent film roles have included the eponymous character in Coraline
35 (2009), Cherie Currie in The Runaways (2010), Annie James in The Motel Life (2013), and Jane in The Twilight Saga (2009–12).Her debut in modeling came in 2009 when she made the cover of various magazines; she’s also appeared in the fashion week in New York in 2014, at the opening ceremony of Fashion Week New York Spring / Summer 2015.
Entertainment:
Christine and the Queens
Héloïse Letissier is a French singer songwriter originating from Nantes who has been with the French independent Because Music record label since 2012. Her musical project known as “Christine and the Queens” is a mix of music, performance, art videos, drawings and photography.
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HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON REMARKS FOR THE DIANE VON FURSTENBERG AWARDS NEW YORK, NY APRIL 24, 2015
Diane, thank you. You’re the ultimate trendsetter –in fashion, of course, but also as an unflagging champion for women and girls.
What an incredible group of women we’re celebrating today.
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Gabby, you continue to inspire us all with your bravery and boldness.
Adi, Samar, you’ve proven that your voices are indeed vital.
Becky, Jody, your innovative spirit is something we should honor everyday, in every community.
And Melanne, well, where do I begin.
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I have been blessed to call Melanne Verveer my friend for longer than either of us would care to admit.
Melanne’s commitment to expanding opportunities for women and girls is unmatched. She’s always understood that when women are strong, families are strong, and countries are strong. And that’s why we are celebrating her lifetime leadership here today.
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There are no fewer than a thousand stories I could share about Melanne, most of them featuring her wry sense of humor, her 24/7 work habits, her love for friends and family, and her fierce determination to get the job done.
Here’s just one:
In the lead up to the 1995 United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, there were a lot of people who thought we shouldn’t attend.
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Some said it would be implicitly condoning China’s dismal human rights record. Others thought another conference on women wasn’t going to achieve much anyway.
But Melanne was singularly focused on the reason we had to go: To lead the world in our unwavering defense of women’s rights as human rights. And it was precisely in a place like China, where those rights were under threat, that it was most important to take a stand.
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So Melanne and I went to Beijing. There, representatives from 189 nations joined together and made a historic commitment to advance the rights and opportunities of women.
We’ve seen real progress since then. Access to health and education has gone up. The rate of maternal mortality has been cut in half. The global gender gap in primary schools has nearly closed.
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Melanne has been there every step of the way. And I’ve been constantly figuring out how to keep up with her.
From the White House to Vital Voices to serving as the first-ever Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, Melanne has marched into every corner of the world. Everywhere that women need a champion, she’s there.
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And instead of slowing down, she’s only speeding up – whether it’s at the Institute for Women, Peace and Security at Georgetown, or at Seneca Point Global, or soon at a bookstore near you.
Melanne is the friend you want in your corner. And she’s the advocate women and girls need in our corner.
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The progress we’ve made over the past twenty years wouldn’t have been possible without her leadership.
So, thank you, Melanne, for all you have given me, all you have given women, all you have given our world. Congratulations on this well- deserved honor! ###
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