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Cindy H McCain
Cindy H McCain


Cindy Lou Hensley McCain is a businesswoman, philanthropist and humanitarian, and the wife of U.S. Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain of Arizona. On November 5, 2021 McCain was sworn in by the Biden Administration to serve as Permanent Representative of the U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome. McCain was born May 20, 1954, in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned a B.A. in education and a M.A. in special education from the University of Southern California. After college, she taught for one year at Agua Fria High […]
Alva Myrdal
Alva Myrdal


Alva Myrdal was a Swedish politician, diplomat and social reformer, and the 1982 co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Myrdal was born on January 31, 1902, in Uppsala, Sweden. She earned a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Stockholm in 1924 and a Master of Arts from the University of Uppsala in 1934. Myrdal and her husband were leading advocates for social welfare reform and women's rights in the 1930s. She was also a prominent member of the Social Democrat Party in Sweden. In 1943, she was appointed to […]
Samantha Power
Samantha Power


Samantha Jane Power served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations from August 5, 2013 to January 20, 2017. Power was born September 21, 1970. Her family emigrated from Ireland to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1979. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in history from Yale University in 1992. From 1993 to 1996, Power worked as a journalist, covering the Yugoslav Wars for U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, The Economist, and The New Republic. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1999. From […]
Susan Rice
Susan E Rice


Susan E. Rice is a diplomat, policy advisor, and public official. She served as director of the United States Domestic Policy Council (2021 to 2023), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (2009 to 2013), and U.S. national security advisor (2013 to 2017). Rice was born November 17, 1964, in Washington, D.C. In 1986, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Stanford University, was a Truman Scholar. She earned a master's degree and a doctorate in international relations from New College, Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes […]
Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Linda Thomas-Greenfield


Linda Thomas-Greenfield served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2021-2025. Thomas-Greenfield received a Bachelor of Arts from Louisiana State University and a Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin. Prior to joining the State Department, she taught political science at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. A career diplomat, Thomas-Greenfield worked at the U.S. Foreign Service from 1982-2017, serving in posts in Switzerland, Pakistan, Kenya, The Gambia, Nigeria, and Jamaica and as the ambassador to Liberia. After retiring from the State Department, Thomas-Greenfield led the Africa Practice at […]
Ann Wagner
Ann Wagner


Ann Wagner has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Missouri's 2nd congressional district since January 2013. Wagner was born September 13, 1962, in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her Bachelor of Science in business administration with an emphasis in logistics from the University of Missouri-Columbia Business School in 1984. After college, Wagner worked at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City and Ralston Purina in St. Louis. Wagner began her political career as a local committeewoman in Lafayette Township. She chaired the Missouri Republican Party from 1999 to 2005, the […]
Diane Watson
Diane Watson


Diane Watson represented California's 33rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2003-2011. Watson was born in Los Angeles on November 12, 1933. She received her Bachelor of Arts in education from UCLA in 1956, an M.S. in school psychology from California State University, Los Angeles in 1967, and a Ph.D. in educational administration from the Claremont Graduate School in 1987. Before her political career, Watson worked as an teacher, administer and school psychologist for the Los Angeles Unified School District from 1958-1976. She was a lecturer at […]