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The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN) is examined.

Born: June 20, 1983 Occupation: Artist and activist GLO:cub/01feb21:26n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): gl Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors was named among the 100 Most Influential People of 2020 and the 100 Women of the Year by Time magazine in honor of her work for social justice. Searching for Cullors's uncle, police refused to meet the eyes of Cullors, her brothers and sisters, and their mother. Writing for the ACLU blog on June 23, 2020, about the issue of disproportionate deaths from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among Black communities, Cullors said, "To turn Black Lives Matter into more than a rally cry, we must roll up our sleeves and do the work. PERSONAL LIFE Cullors married Janaya Khan, an organizer of the Toronto Black Lives Matter chapter, in 2016 and took Khan-Cullors as her surname. [Extracted from the article]

Born: March 11, 1964 Occupation: YA novelist Libba Bray is the author of several best-selling and award-winning YA titles, including the New York Times best-selling Gemma Doyle trilogy (2003-07); the Michael L. Printz Award-winning Going Bovine; Beauty Queens, and the Diviners series. '" COMPLETING THE TRILOGY Bray continued the story of Gemma Doyle and her friends in two subsequent novels, Rebel Angels (2005) and The Sweet Far Thing (2007). Bray had begun the novel as an exercise for a workshop while she was writing the second book in the Gemma Doyle trilogy. Bray and her grandmother were going through photographs, one picture of her grandmother and another young woman called to Bray. [Extracted from the article]

Born: February 16, 1989 Occupation: Actor GLO:cub/01jan21:57n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): gl Actor Elizabeth Olsen is noted for her appearances in independent films as well as blockbusters. EARLY CAREER In 2011, Olsen made five independent films in quick succession; two of the films Silent House and Martha Marcy May Marlene, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival the same year. Olsen's work in these films earned her attention and led to new roles in both blockbusters and additional independent films. [Extracted from the article]

Born: May 19, 1958 Occupation: Politician Democrat Jenny A. Durkan was elected mayor of Seattle, Washington, in 2017, becoming the city's first woman mayor in ninety-one years when she was elected from a field of four women to head the city. UNITED STATES ATTORNEY Durkan began her law career with the Seattle firm Foster Pepper, where her focus was on white-collar crime. A PROGRESSIVE CITY In May 2017, Durkan announced her candidacy for mayor of Seattle. SUGGESTED READING Durkan, Jenny A. "Q&A with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan: On the Front Lines since January, Seattle Mayor Shares Her Take on Responding to an Outbreak.". [Extracted from the article]

Born: September 2, 1983 Occupation: Journalist and podcaster GLO:cub/01nov20:46n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): Photo by Stefan Brending via Wikimedia Commons gl As a journalist, earned multiple Edward R. Murrow and Associated Press Awards. In 2013 Judge and Spohrer, along with Eric Mennel, worked independently to create Criminal, a true-crime podcast they launched in January 2014. Judge and Spohrer recorded and edited the Criminal podcasts in the evening. Spohrer was the first to work on the show full-time, but by 2016 Judge had also made Criminal her sole job. [Extracted from the article]

Born: August 23, 1971 Occupation: Politician Gretchen Esther Whitmer became the forty-ninth governor of Michigan when she won the 2018 election. MICHIGAN GOVERNOR In the 2018 Michigan Democratic gubernatorial primary, Whitmer won all eightythree counties; she then went on to win the general election against Republican state attorney general Bill Schuette with 53 percent of the vote. GAINING A NATIONAL PROFILE Whitmer's profile rose still further when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called on her to give the Democratic response to President Trump's 2020 State of the Union address, delivered on February 4. "Democrats Turn to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan for Trump State of the Union Response.". [Extracted from the article]

GLO:cub/01jun20:57n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): Photo by NASA gl Born: July 1, 1977 Occupation: Astronaut and scientist Jessica Meir joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at age thirty-five after a career as a scientist to follow her long-held passion to go to space. ASTRONAUT Meir was part of the 2009 cohort of astronauts training for a chance to spend time aboard the International Space Station (ISS), which orbits about 250 miles above Earth at about 17,000 miles per hour. Out of 6,300 applicants to the program, four men and four women, including Meir, were selected for NASA's twenty-first astronaut class. "Journey to Mars: Meet NASA Astronaut Candidate Jessica Meir.". [Extracted from the article]

Date of birth: ca. 1986-87 Occupation: Journalist Hannah Dreier won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, based on a series of three articles she wrote for the investigative news organization ProPublica in 2018 about the consequences of flawed investigations into the gang MS- 13. ASSOCIATED PRESS In 2012, Dreier began reporting on California state government and politics for the Associated Press (AP). In 2014, Dreier, who is fluent in Spanish, took an assignment in Venezuela, a country on the brink of collapse, where she was the AP's only English language reporter. PROPUBLICA AND A PULITZER Dreier left Venezuela in 2017 to return to the United States, where she accepted a position as a reporter with ProPublica, based in New York City. [Extracted from the article]

Date of birth: January 17, 1989 Occupation: Actor became an overnight star when she was cast in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017), which grossed more than $220 million in box-office revenue on its opening night. Before being cast, Tran had never watched a Star Wars film, but afterward, she binge-watched the franchise and began appreciating it even more. "Star Wars Star Kelly Marie Tran Is Living Her "Impossible" Dream." SELECTED WORKS XOXO, 2016; Star Wars: The Last Jedi, 2017; Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, 2019. [Extracted from the article]

Date of birth: October 25, 1971 Occupation: Novelist British Turkish writer has written more than a dozen books and earned multiple awards. Her next several books were also written in English, including the novel The Bastard of Istanbul (2006) and the memoir Black Milk (2007), in which Shafak discusses her struggle with postpartum depression after the birth of her first child. FURTHER NOVELS Following her brush with the Turkish government, Shafak relocated to England and continued to write in both English and Turkish. Shafak and Can maintain a long-distance marriage; Shafak and their children live in London, England, while Can lives in Turkey. [Extracted from the article]

In 1989, Ratcliffe set up a laboratory at Oxford's Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine to study hypoxia - the state in which all or part of the body receives insufficient oxygen at the tissue level. Ratcliffe eventually discovered that cells in other organs, such as the liver and the brain, can also sense oxygen levels. Many of Ratcliffe's colleagues suggested he well-deserved the Nobel honor, lauding the importance of his contribution to the discovery of oxygen sensing. Ratcliffe, Peter, and William Kaelin. [Extracted from the article]

Despite his health issues, Semple followed through on his determination to become an artist, exhibiting in clubs and bars and selling his art on eBay. In 2007, Semple displayed the exhibit Fake Plastic Love - a show featuring billboard-sized paintings - at the Truman Brewery during the Frieze Art Fair. More than ten thousand people visited the exhibit and Semple sold more than one million dollars' worth of artwork in the first five minutes of the show. Jonathan R. Jones wrote in review of the exhibit for Modern Painters (Feb. 2015): "To cut through our cynicism and give images again the power to disturb is quite a feat; that Semple manages it via the medium of paint is even more impressive.". [Extracted from the article]

Joshua David Hawley was born in Springdale, Arkansas, Hawley grew up in rural Lexington, Missouri. Hawley campaigned successfully in 2016 to become Missouri's attorney general; he became the first Republican to hold that office in more than two decades. Hawley faced criticism for his handling of the attorney general's office; judges complained about the slow rate of discovery. Early in his term in the Senate, Hawley pursued a cause he had also favored as a state attorney general (and that his erstwhile hero, the trust-buster Theodore Roosevelt, would have supported): challenging the power of big tech companies. [Extracted from the article]

Although born in New York, writer Julia Alvarez spent the first ten years of her life in her family's home in the Dominican Republic under Trujillo's rule. Her father's involvement [...]

Poet Li-Young Lee was born to Chinese parents in Indonesia in 1957. His mother's grandfather was the first president of the People's Republic of China. He didn't seem likely to [...]

A Jewish Hungarian Childhood: Hiding from the Nazis Being Jewish in 1936 was dangerous. Adolf Hitler, the Nazi chancellor of Germany, wanted to kill all the Jewish people. Even people [...]

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A biography of Politician Lauren Underwood is presented. She went on to Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a joint master's degree in nursing and public health in 2009. She observed the negative effect of the U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war with China on the farmers in her district, and discussed the separation of migrant families at the US-Mexico border.

A biography of Eliza Griswold is presented. She earned international acclaim for her parallel careers in journalism and poetry, winning numerous awards for her diverse body of work. She published her first nonfiction book, "The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam" in 2010, and discovered the Afghan folk poetry form known as "landay."

A biography of politician and lawyer Lori Lightfoot is presented. Lightfoot was born on August 4, 1962. Scholarship received by Lightfoot for the University of Chicago Law School. Lightfoot served initially as assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Lightfoot became mayor by sweeping victory in all fifty wards and become mayor of Chicago.

A biography of business executive Rose Marcario is presented. Marcario was born around 1964. Marcario served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of General Magic, a spin-off from Apple Inc. Contribution of Marcario in streamlining the production and saving the costs in Patagonia, B (benefit) Corp by improving the electronic-commerce.

A biography of Canadian politician Rachel Notley is presented. She was born in 1964, in Edmonton, Alberta and obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Alberta in 1987, and a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. Notley won election as leader of the Alberta National Democratic Party with 70 percent of the vote in 2014. Notley's administration was marked by efforts to boost provincial economy and introducing social justice initiatives.

A biography of artist Simone Leigh is presented. She was born in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois, and received Kiln God Fellowship at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in 2001. Leigh collaborated with Creative Time, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and The Kitchen to create Free People 's Medical Clinic, a month-long exhibition and event at the Stuyvesant Mansion. Leigh received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in 2016.

A biography of Amanda Nguyen, the founder, and CEO of Rise, a non-governmental civil rights organization is presented. She was the power behind the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act, one of the bills to pass unanimously through US congress. She was born in 1991 and she earned a Bachelor of Arts and Science at Harvard University in 2013. She interned at NASA and has also worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

A biography of Meghan McCain, a commentator and columnist is presented. She was born on October 23, 1984 in Arizona, U.S. and her interest in politics while studying at Columbia University; she interned in news magazine of her father along with at Saturday Night Live; and began writing on politics and pop culture for the Daily Beast in 2009.

A biography of actor and audio book narrator January LaVoy is presented. She was born in December 1975 in Trumbull, Connecticut, and went on to attend the Fairfield University. LaVoy performed the role of Kegan in John Fisher's play "Joy" and the role of Noelle in ABC daytime drama "One Life to Live."

A biography of singer-songwriter, Tinashe is presented. It mentions that he was born on February 6, 1993 in Lexington, Kentucky, and her parents played a major role in her singing career. She has released various albums including "Amethys," "Nightrid," and "Rolling Stone," and "Joyrid." She has two young brothers, and lives with them in Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles.

A biography is presented of the poet Barbara Jane Reyes which includes information on her career, her education and her poetry.

A biography of comics artist and illustrator Fiona Staples, is presented. She was born in Calgary, Alberta, and loved to draw as a child. She studied visual communications at the Alberta College of Art and Design. Her career began when she was still in college when she created art for the comic series Done to Death, and included developing the science fiction fantasy Saga, and working on the reboot of the Archie series.

A biography of Anne Fulenwider, editor-in-chief of Marie Claire magazine, is presented. She was born on March 30, 1972, and spent her early life in New York. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in English and American literature in 1995. Her career in publishing includes internships at publications such as Paris Review, and Swing, and working at publications including Vanity Fair, as editor-in-chief for Brides and her present position at Marie Claire.

Remember the days when we signed for a FedEx or UPS package on paper, instead of putting our signature directly on the computer screen of their portable computers like we [...]