Shirley Ann Jackson '68, PhD '73, worked to help bring about more diversity at MIT, where she was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate.
Brilliant draughtsman, first considers a career as an illustrator. Meets the editor for Lidel, a Milanese fashion magazine. She advises him to try fashion.
Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 - May 30, 1640) was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style.
Saavedra began his career in Corpus Christi as a public school teacher and rose steadily through the ranks, serving as an assistant principal, as a principal.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.